What a Blessed Day! Starting The New Year Off Right!

What a banner day we had! Our plans for yesterday included a friend coming to help me clean out the milking parlor. Each year it gets insanely filthy, so once a year we pull everything out, clean the building, and put everything back in. It's a big job, which is why I'm thankful to have such a dear friend to come and help.

Also on the list of things to do was to get our 4 holiday chickens into the freezer.

I have been so incredibly blessed. I have the best husband in the world, great kids, and we have been given the great opportunity to live the lifestyle that we do. I have been able to stay at home to raise my children, had an opportunity to answer the call of homeschooling them, and we are able to witness God's blessings in every aspect of our lives.

Despite our daily plans and best intentions, sometimes we get sidetracked from the task at hand. My day was planned...I was going to work on my new project room (nearly done, pics coming soon!) until my friend arrived; then we would clean the milking barn to get ready for kidding season, then we would do-in the 4 meat chickens. That was the plan.

During my morning chores, I noticed that Blessing was showing signs of early labor. I continued with my chores and then started unpacking and organizing the new project room just as I'd planned, stopping on occasion to look outside to keep an eye on Blessing. Within an hour I noticed she'd gone into the barn and was staying there. Another hour or so later I decided I'd better check things out, and look at what I found!

Blessing has never failed to live up to her name! She popped out a set of twins (1 boy 1 girl) with no complications. This is a "D" year for our goat kid names....and when I saw this little girl my first thought was a Bible verse that I learned as a child. Psalms 1:2 "But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night". This little girls' name is Queenacres Delight....

I am not sure what the boy's name will be. He has already been sold and will be going to his new home on Monday as a bottle baby. Until then, Rebekah will be spoiling him rotten...

And by the way, we never did get the milking parlor clean. The project room is coming along nicely, and we got the chickens done. Other than that, we enjoyed our new blessings...