Happy New Year!

Hope you all had a wonderful and safe evening!

I sat on the bed and watched a marathon of Law and Order. Then called the kids in to watch the ball drop. I was surprised at how old Dick Clark was looking...was it just me or did his speech sound slurred? Did he have a stroke or something? I always miss news since I don't really watch it...my friend fusses at me all the time about it, but it just depresses me so I just don't watch anymore.

The kids were so silly acting and loud...oh my. I almost sent them to bed twice. They did finally calm down and then crashed after we sent them to bed. Of course they are up now at 8 am...What happened to sleeping in!?

New Years Resolutions...people always make those things...I know many aren't kept. Here's a few of ours.

J says: to play better at soccer and to keep his room tidier.

B says: to play more video games (I don't think so girl!, was my reply), she just laughed! She says she'll eat healthier cereal! Goofball! Then she says: "Well, I don't really need to do things better since I'm already good at everything! I'm just perfect!" Man did she and I just laugh out loud! She says she has to think about it.

Steve: he's going to eat healthier and lose 20 lbs.

Me: I'm going to plan our meals better, so we won't eat out so often and to help Steve. I'm going to do my visiting teaching regularly. I'm going to get up earlier, get the kids school things ready in a timely manner, get them up, have breakfast together, take our time with schooling and read each evening to them. I'm also going to have my scrapbook caught up here shortly. Britney and I are also going to be working on a quilt together. I have stuff enough to make 3 other quilts too, from a quilt exchange I did a while back. I have the top of one finished and that's the one we'll be working on.

That's about it for now...

Goats....

We sold two goats today and the big white roo that the kids called Charmin, LOL. Little did I know how my morning would turn out after we delivered them....

It's rained here so much that the guy couldn't get his trailer unstuck so we offered to deliver them for him. We sold him the two older ones since all he wanted them for was brush clearing and not breeding. We got there, pulled the big brown one out and put it into the guys pen. I had told him that his electric lines must be close together and near the ground so they wouldn't get out...his lines weren't and he put them in anyways. That goat got out in 2 seconds flat! We then were led on a good long chase of the thing, which I had just come to realize was a male. I always took it for a female. I guess I wasn't paying much attention to all that. I'd just assumed they were all females! Boy did I feel dumb when I had to tell him. Come to find out, they were both males! LOL. Their bellies are so hairy I actually had to feel up under there. I guess I never really stood around long enough to see them pee! LOL. We had to carry that blasted thing back at one point because he just flopped down and refused to move! What a goob.

The fellow didn't care that they were males and they were eventually put up into the horse trailer he had until he could make a pen for them. I wish him luck!

So we're now down to 8 goats...I need to catch the other wild ones and check them too; or else just stand around for a while and wait for them to 'go'. I'm not in need of any males and I'll sell them too.

We should be getting a Hereford calf this week from a friend of ours. We're going to raise it out for the freezer. The kids are trying to find a funny name for it. Our little neighbor friend wants to call it Angus, which would be cute if it was a Black Angus calf, but it's not. Then B said to call it Chili. I suggested Sirloin, LOL. We'll see.

B and I ran off to town to do some shopping after we delivered the goats and man were the stores packed! It was worse than before Christmas. I don't understand what the deal was.

We are letting the kids stay up late tonight to watch the ball drop. They don't seem to have on any shows for the kids late on TV though. Last year B watched a cute Cinderella movie on TV until right before the ball dropped.

Hope you all have a wonderful New Years tonight. Pray that the kids don't drive me up the wall since I'm sure they'll be ultra tired and just plain silly!