Half of my students were sick today.....

Ok, so I only have 2 students but Jesse woke up sick today. Sore throat, upset stomach and really tired. He says his throat and stomach are better but he's still tired. I pray he's back to his normal self tomorrow.

Easter was quite a full day for us. I wish we could celebrate Palm Sunday with one side of the family and Easter with theother side. I may try to suggest that for next year. We had Peter and Sven here with us Easter morning. I enjoyed having them come for a few days over their spring break. Hopefully they had a good time.

We had 5 new calves yesterday! Quite a surprise to us. I guess the biggest surprise was a cow that we kept watching so we could breed her. She was one who calved yesterday. LOL. Apparently she got bred back when her calf was only 3 weeks old. I guess I'm glad we didn't take her to market. We're nearing the end of the calving period for the cows Mike AIed and he did quite well this year as far as conception rates.

I sat down last night and worked on the last of the lesson plans for the year. The boys will finish the last week of April at the latest. They both will attend AI school that weekend and then we'll promote them to 9th and 10th grades. I can't even begin to express the feelings that come over me when I type that. Two highschool aged boys, quickly on their way to manhood. It's a lot like looking into your newborn baby's face for the first time and dreaming of all the possibilities. Only now, the possibilities are much closer to realities and it's nearly time to let them go off on thier own. Chris is investigating a 2 year degree from a college in IL and I just cannot even imagine life without him here. With his course load going like it did this year, there is a possibility that he could do one year online at home during his senior year. And yet, that's still another whole year away from us. I'm sure God is going to prepare us for that time. He hasn't yet, but we don't need to be prepared yet. Jesse hasn't made a decision as to what he would like to work toward, but the boy is only 13. It is hard to remember that when he is as tall as my Daddy now and is the tallest in our family. I see so much of what I was like at his age in him right now. The main difference is his maturity in his faith in Christ. The boy seems to view all things through eyes of faith. We've had many discussions over the last year that have all seemed to work together to develop a much deeper faith in him.

Mike and I went to the Ohio Beef Expo mid March. We had a great time just getting away and enjoying our time alone. The boys had a youth retreat that weekend and they too enjoyed their time away. I think the people who didn't enjoy our time away were our dads. Mike's dad did chores 1/2 of the time and my dad did them the other 1/2. We had 2 cows that we were waiting on to have calves for about 3 weeks prior to going to the Expo. Both of them calved while we were gone. I told Mike they were just waiting for us to be gone. Stupid cows could've let us in on that so we could've been getting full nights of rest before the trip. LOL.

Melinda