Life has been completely crazy over the last few months for everyone. Our entire way of living as a society was changed and came crashing down for a lot of people. I think my version of these last few months was probably very different than most people and I am very thankful for everything that we had. That doesn’t mean that it has been easy though.
The past few months, life has been busier than ever before for us. My husband is working a job full time from home and helping us to make our farm what we have dreamt it to be. I have been working full time as a nurse and been working a part time job from home. Together with the kids we have been working on some big things with the farm too. It all adds up.
A lot of the time lately, I have been very overwhelmed and just plain exhausted. Today, as I am working I realized just how blessed I am, despite some really tough things going on around us. No, I don’t just mean with COVID either. We have had vehicle issues, equipment issues, in March my husband and I were both pretty sick for a few weeks, We have had to adjust things on the farm with how to raise our animals and have been working on how to get what we raised out there to sell. We have had rotor tiller and rotor tiller issue. So basically, all of the life things that happen.
I was sitting here thinking about all of the things that have gone wrong and all of the work that needs to be done, I was feeling pretty overwhelmed and stressed out. Then I began to think about how my husband worked all night last night and is up taking care of our animals so that they have food and fresh water. I thought about how hard the kids have worked in the last few days to get things cleaned up and to help take care of our animals. I thought about how blessed we are to now have double the amount of bee hives that we were planning on having this year.
That lead me to thinking about a new avenue that we are trying . We are now selling our rabbit meat directly off of our farm. Not only will be be able to sell rabbit meat directly, but we will very soon be able to sell whole chickens, ducks and geese from the farm too. We are very excited to be able to offer this to people who are buying eggs and produce from us. How amazing will it be to be able to offer people everything that they need to make a dinner for their family for the night? As a nurse, I love the idea of a lean protein and vegetables on a family dinner table. I think about all of the people with diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and so many other health issues. It makes me so thankful that I can help offer a meal that it good for them and their loved ones.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not a strict diet follower by any means but I do know that I feel better when I eat well. I know that as a mom, I am excited when I get my kids to eat a healthy meal. I also know that my husband, who loves “pretty” food, gets very excited for these things as well. Thankfully he is an amazing cook and makes phenomenal meals.
That is when the whole picture started coming together for me. We really are blessed. There is more work for us to do today than we can possibly accomplish. There will be more work for us to do tomorrow. That needs to be ok. It doesn’t have to be perfect. We need to realize that it we only have 24 hours in a day. It is ok to not finish everything. We just need to keep taking one step at a time and working the best that we can. Our animals are fed, they are watered, they are cared for. Our children are fed, taken care of and loved also. So, today, we will take it one day at a time and be thankful for the things we have, the friends that we have made and our time together.