Day 34

19 November 2021

Mad Mornings

We only have two days a week where we need to be out the door by 9am & those days are hard! 😂

I hear myself falling into old patterns, like before we started home schooling.

“Have you brushed your teeth?!” I call out while packing lunches in bags & looking for last minute things.

“Mila get dressed, we have to go!”

“I’m tired mama.”

Argh!

It was a bit like that this morning. It hasn’t been long since we started home-schooling, but we sure do love our lazy mornings.

But today was farm school, and we had to hussle!

A Call From The Farmer

I hadn’t long started my day working from home when I got a call from the Farmer.

“Listen, we lost one of our calves this morning. The group discussed cutting it open to have a look inside & I just wanted to check you would be ok with that?”

“Ah, yes that sounds like a wonderful learning experience.” I uttered awkwardly feeling like Bridget Jones.

I remember growing up on our farm & watching a cow struggling in labour. Her calf had 2 legs out and had become stuck.

The vet arrived and pulled it out with a rope and a winch of some sort. The calf was dead.

I’ll never forget standing there watching the mama cow licking her baby over and over and trying to moo it into life.

But it never moved. 😞

So I knew, whatever happened today they were going to remember it for life.

Advanced Biology

I was dying to talk to them & hear all about their day.

The dead cow day.

I didn’t realise it would get so, hands on!

“First they showed us how to take its skin off.” Lincoln begins. 😬

“I didn’t watch, I went to eat lunch on the trampoline with some of my friends.” Says Mila.

“He just ripped it off like a carpet.” Linc continues.

“I was on the trampoline.” Mila keeps telling me.

“Then we cut its vein. Oh Mum, you should have seen how much blood came out! It was black. It was really dark blood.”

“I ate my strawberries and my kiwi fruit. I saved my pizza for after.” Mila continues.

“Then we cut the oesophagus and looked at the lungs. They were so squishy and red!” Linc is telling me EVERYTHING!

Then I breathed into its oesophagus & blew up its lungs.

GREAT BIG GASP!! 😲😲😲😲😲

“You what?”

“Yeh, we took turns. We covered our hands around the top and blew into our hands like this, and then the lungs blew up!”

“I didn’t do that mama.” 😇

“Then I held its heart in my hands. It wasn’t beating. Then I felt my heart go bang, bang bang! And I had to sit down and eat some pizza.” 🍕 😂😂😂

“Its heart was so squishy and it is NOT shaped like a heart.”

So yeh, that happened.

Waterfall (Take 3)

I said, “So what happened next?”

“We went to a waterfall!” They said excitedly.

Honestly, these poor kids. 😂

“Oh no!! Did you find one this time?” (My fingers and toes were crossed).

“Yes, we did and we went swimming!”

“In our clothes” say’s Mila.

“I got cold, but I got cuddles from Jade the helper.”

“I went behind the world!” Says Linc, meaning behind the waterfall. 😍😍

I said to Liam, “Looks like another man’s cut your grass darling.” (Yes, I did feel straight out of The Castle when I said that. Sorry Millennials, look it up).

Goat Hot Chocolate

After the waterfall adventure.

They were cold & in desperate need of hot chocolate.

Luckily, a mama goat had very full udders and they all had turns milking the goat.

“First, you lock it off. Then you squeeze one finger at a time and pull down & then the milk squirts out.” Mila tells me.

“The teat felt fat & warm & squishy” She continued.

“Wow, what does goats’ milk hot chocolate taste like?”

“Like cow’s milk” Linc says.

“It was yummy” Mila adds.

Meanwhile

While all of this was taking place, Liam went for a surf and met some friends for lunch.

I love where we live. 😍😍😍

His shots are breath-taking. (Go Liam!!)

Liam had a peaceful ride home.

They were utterly exhausted from a big day of learning & doing & feeling & being.