For the first time since we have been married, Brayden sat down and said that he wanted to go through the next few months and do some planning. I can't even tell you how excited I was for that... but that isn't the point of this post. In our planning, it appears that our baby has chosen the busiest month EVER to come. This still isn't the point here, but certainly is setting the stage.... I was going through things that I knew were happening in April and I asked when branding would be. Brayden looked at the calendar and quickly told me that the weekend of finals, which is also the same weekend we could possibly be having our baby (if I am lucky and they induce me... which they said they would), was the weekend that he HAD to go branding. He said we would just have to plan the baby around branding.
I just had to laugh at that, because babies don't plan around your schedule, you get to work around their schedule. He further went on to say that April is a bad month to have a baby. But then again, the beginning of May is bad as well if you are AI-ing cows. The summer is bad because ranchers spend day and night out in the field haying and of course there is some big project. During the fall is weaning and shipping calves. Then comes winter when their full time job is even more full time as they are busy night and day calving.
We finally determined that there really is no 'good' time to have a baby in a rancher's life. So we just have them when they come... except in April when its branding time...
that's it
1 year ago
