I am still here!

Yay the workload has eased off and we are just getting dribs and drabs of 4-6 calves a day. Yesterday we only had one so I managed to get some scrapping done so I finished off a CJ that is probably a month late!! Now onto the next CJ! Hopefully I will get more time from now on.
My MIL is up for a few weeks but is about to head home next week. I really appreciate her coming up but I wont be asking her next year as she is driving me crazy! She comes up to normally do my washing and cooking and the odd vacuum but this year its been obviously too much for her and I have had to cook as well. So we have been having dinner about 7pm every night. But my big real gripe is that she underminds the independence of our two kids but doing things for them which are not neccessary and lets them get away with blue murder! She is 68 but where my Mum is an active 60+, my MIL is a very old one.
Even though I havent had any time to scrap it wouldve been nice to visit my scrap space and just push a few things around but MIL goes to bed early and has naps just when i might get a spare minute. So thats also why I will be glad when she goes home. Phew got that off my chesty bits lol!
We are just about to start employing a couple of high school students for after school milkings which will free me up in the afternoon to do things with the kids. One of them is just so keen that he has turned up this morning to give me his list of sizes for overalls/gumboots/raincoat etc that I asked him to get yesterday. We are buying them all for them and they will stay at the shed as I dont think its fair for them to pay for them and it come out of their earnings. We want them to stay in the industry after all. I am really excited as it means I can also scrap in the afternoons or while Im cooking dinner etc...yay..I have missed it heaps! I still have calves to feed but that is really cruisy as I am only rearing 34. All the rest of my calves have been going off at 4 days for research on a new gene. We are one of 3 farms doing it. It means a bit of extra identifying and paper work but is soo much easier for me! They are loving my calves especially as the other two are a bit scungy they reckon (the guys picking them up). We have a bit less than a hundred cows to calve now and the milkings are soo cruisy. This is our first year in a rotary shed and am loving it..so fast and easy. Some cows forget to get off the merry go round and go around again and are obviously enjoying the music too! lol
My kids are off to the snow next weekend! Yep our cub/scout group and another group are off to Mt Ruapehu on Friday for a skiing weekend. It is costing us $45 each + $57 each for a snow boarding lesson. Bloody good value only because our group is paying half. I am rapt for them as it is really not possible for us to going skiing at this time of year. Ive given them strict instructions on lots of photos of THEMSELVES not all the other kids! lol!
Well I was going to post a few pics of duncan (he has grown) but is very naughty! And one of Andrea with her hoard of dogs but blogger wont let me. Will try later.
Cor this is a long post!
Have a good week!