The days are getting warmer and the sun is shining longer which means there is more opportunity to work outside. Each morning my husband and I exchange lists of our respective obligations for the day.
Without fail, almost every single day the focus ends up shifting to accomplishing the tasks on his list. It makes things on our side much more chaotic, but as any elementary-aged child can tell you: when the world is turning into a dumpster fire, the best thing to do is stop, drop and roll.
Stop everything you're doing.
Drop whatever task you may have been in the middle of accomplishing.
Roll with the punches and things will (probably) work out just fine.
Last week John really wanted to finish his library book. The Magic Treehouse series is pretty captivating at his age and reading is something that I don't want to discourage in our children. I needed to make ear tags and help Wesley work calves so John had to tag along and continue to read aloud about adventures in ancient Rome while I continued my work. We swapped his magic treehouse for a magic vet shack and he shouted the story to me over the loud hum of the hydraulic chute.
Stop, drop and roll.
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| And, because this kid can relax anywhere, he took a few moments to create a rock lounge chair. |
The kids love to jump haybales. If they could do nothing else for recreation I think they'd be just fine. We had just started to enjoy our afternoon when I got the call that everyone needed to head to a pasture and help gather a set of calves.
Stop, drop and roll.
The kids are having fun working with all their 4-H calves this year as they are now big enough to do most everything themselves. We thought it was going to be a productive afternoon of scratching on calves when we got the call and suddenly tracking a bull sale online was more important.
Stop, drop and roll.
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| We were interested in bull #10 and bull #110 in the sale order. The kids did a wonderful job of tracking everything in between and letting us know when they were getting close to our prospects and it allowed us to keep working. |
As this busy spring season progresses I have a feeling we're going to stop, drop and roll each and every day.
