So, I started my blog in February and now it's April, and this is my second post already! I'm doing great, right? What WAS all that stuff I said in the first post, about "making time" for what you love? My problem is, I love doing too many things, and some of them take a great deal of time. Example: I love riding my horses (yes, that word is plural, which only complicates the whole time-issue-thingy). So, along with RIDING goes stall-mucking, horse-moving (whereby you rotate horses through stalls and pastures to give them optimum environment), injury-treating (you don't want to KNOW everything I've had to treat for in the last year--did you know Desitin is NOT just for a baby's behind?), feeding, tack and barn cleaning--oh, the list just goes on and on.
Maybe (just maybe) because of my schedule, I've been really tired lately, and I realized today I've started to motivate myself with food. Can't wait to see where this ends up (in that Desitin place?) A typical day goes like this: I start my morning outside doing chores for up to an hour or more, and am famished when I get inside, so breakfast is in order. I make it pretty well through helping Kaela with schoolwork throughout the morning, but by noon my energy is dipping. Time to go ride? I need a bean burrito and a latte first. Stalls need cleaned? Oooo, graham crackers and Nutella with a chocolate truffle latte sure sounds good. Goat pen needs raked? First I need a HUGE salad with LOTS of green garlic-stuffed olives, and a caramel latte. Afternoon feeding time? "Hey, Kaela, while you're at it, make me a couple of those peanut-butter celeries" and a latte.
I am hopeful that once the weather decides to stay sunny and warm I'll find my energy again. For now, I sit gazing out at the clouds and realize it's time to go move and feed horses, chickens and goats. As soon as I finish my caramel latte.
