I haven't updated my blog in quite sometime as you can see. Well the events of yesterday and last night have inspired me to do an update. The day started off fine. I subbed for 1st & 2nd grade at the elementary on Thursday and yesterday. I had a lot of fun with the 7 boys in my class. They were all good kids and made my job easy. When I got home at noon yesterday, Nathan had bathed the kids and cleaned the house. He even had fed them lunch! It was pretty amazing. However, from there it all went down hill. He had discovered that all the pipes were frozen at his parents vacation home next door, and the water to my washer was frozen because my laundry room is in the garage. So he left and went to Richfield to run a few errands and get some heaters to defrost the pipes. When he came home it was time to do chores. The kids and I go do chores with him every night so I can drive while he throws hay. He went to feed the chickens and the few horses we have corraled next to our house. So I was getting the kids ready to go and here he comes walking a horse. He said the horse was sick and he needed to walk it around. So he walked it and walked it and walked it, for probably 2 hours. By this time it was dark. He still needed to feed the chickens & few horses and he also needed to build a fire in the wood burning stove next door. So I left the kids in the house with a movie on and took the horse while he heated the house & fed. I walked the horse for nearly an hour. Finally, he decided to tie the horse up (because it's not supposed to lie down), and go feed the horses in the pastures. So we loaded up the kids and headed to the other horses. When we got there all 25 horses were out of the pasture and in the haystack! So we spent an hour or so getting what we thought were all of them back in the pasture. We get back home and the sick horse is laying down. So Nathan sat on the back of the truck leading it, and I drove around for another half hour. He decided to just walk it around the yard so I could take the now cranky kids in and feed them. I fed them and got them ready for bed (it was 10:30). Nathan finally came in, ate, relaxed for a bit and decided he had better go check the horses up in the pasture. Good thing he did, there was still one horse out! He got to bed after midnight but by then I was crashed out. I was so exhausted, I didn't wake up once before 6am which is unusual.
Today is going much better. It has warmed up and all the pipes are defrosted. The sick horse survived and is doing better. All the other horses are still in their corrals and I can do laundry now. I just called a babysitter and we're going out to dinner and christmas shopping tonight. I can't wait. We both need a break. Merry Christmas to everyone if I don't get around to posting again by then.
