Catching-up

Life has been EXTREMELY busy and stressful here for about the last month or so. We are undergoing MAJOR renovations in the plant, we have had to hire new drivers and office help, and Tony has been working very weird hours and so is sleeping during the day or not at all. Some mornings he is up at 1:30 am and then is able to come back to bed around 5:00 am until around 8:00 am, and then other mornings he never comes back home after getting up at 1:30 and works until 5 or 6:00 in the evening and crashes on the couch soon after dinner. He still is on the delivery truck at least one day per week but it has been even more frequent in the last week because we have a driver on vacation. On days that he is able to stay around the creamery he is usually fixing a problem in the processing plant or being pulled into an inspection of the new equipment which takes hours longer than he expected.

The new girl in the office just wasn't working out, we are going on week #4 and the mistakes were just as many as week #1 and they were the same mistakes and I just couldn't handle it anymore, so I actually fired her yesturday, so that means it is back to me doing the deposits, customer service calls, payables, payroll, tour scheduling, and collections until we can find yet another potential person. The part I HATE more than firing someone is training someone new!

Last week when the weather was beyond beautiful the kids and I spent alot of time out at the farm helping with chores...I even spent the afternoon milking (which I haven't done in years)!

Gabe is at an age or in a "stage" where he doesn't want to help with anything, he wants to do nothing more than play video games or watch TV, but if it means he has to help someone then he downright refuses to help. I talked with my Mom about this and she said that Ben and I were Gabe's age when we started having responsibilities around the farm...she can't remember if we threw up a fight about it or not but told me that he will just have to learn that working together is part of living on a farm.