Just as expected we spent the holiday weekend pretty heavily engaged in the kidding barn and outside feeding cattle and making the rounds.

How could the greatest story known to man be set in the most humble of locations, surrounded by the most non-descript creatures. Yet it be a story worthy to be told for centuries and undoubtably deserving of every award coveted in Hollywood.

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Maybe it is because of our remote, ranch living, maybe it’s a personality flaw, or maybe it’s because for much of our parenting years, the cattle market has busted our bank accounts and there just wasn’t much left to be spent on luxury items. But I have never been drawn to the commercialized, over buying, over the top gift giving scenario that has become the mainstream way of celebrating Christmas.

School is finally out for Christmas vacation which means our child labor has returned home! Farmers and ranchers are making labor lists in their heads of what they can get done while the kids are home.

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Right now all I can think about is Ozzy Osbourne’s song Crazy Train because we are all aboard, full steam ahead on the goat kidding crazy train! We were in the barn until after 11 pm last night. My husband made the rounds at 4 am. My two younger girls ran down to the barn for a quick check at 6:30 am before the bus came and all was quiet, but when my husband went out to start his tractor a short time later he heard little baby goat cries in a pen south of our house, where I didn’t think we had any heavy does.

And just like the song says, “it’s the hap-happiest season of all.” It is officially kidding season at our house, I mean barn. I was going to announce my maternity leave today, but I didn’t want to confuse listeners with what kind of kids I was welcoming.

Hope you had a great weekend and got your Christmas shopping all wrapped up... pun intended... at your hometown main street USA businesses. Ventured into the megamart this weekend to pick up my new glasses at their vision center. I was debating making a run to pick up some coffee in the bowels of the packed store. The feller at the vision center wisely advised me, “Dont go in there dude!” Nuff said…

It is Snickerdoodle season! Actually, this classic never goes out of season.