As I look out my office window, the sun is beginning to warm the farm. The sheep are rising and mulling about, but I have been up long before the sun warming a lamb.
We began lambing 2 days ago.
When lambs are born, and it is not without challenges. I was up most of the night two nights ago, with Willow and she is now nurturing a beautiful ewe lamb. I will need to redue a body butter batch today as I got stopped when first time Mom, Cocoa, began her lambing. Poor thing, she was quite confused and still hasn’t quite figured it out. She has 2 lambs and one is currently on a heating pad on the dog bed in the bedroom, hence the warming a lamb comment.
I still feel like a fish out of water when things don’t go right with lambing.
For something that is to be so natural, it has a lot of variables that test you and them. So, I have learned to stop everything, be present and handle it. It doesn’t mean I do it gracefully all the time, but I do it.
Just like the creation of a new recipe, I have a lot of trial and error. That doesn’t hold the anxiety of keeping a lamb alive, but there is sweet triumph when things work. I keep trying until it works.
Farming is about showing up, just like life. I have never been one to play life safe. When there is a chance to bring beauty and love in to form, I gladly step forward. With the joy and inspiration, there may come tears.
John & Kate find themselves happier than they could ever have imagine as they move forward in their grace filled life here at Brentwood Farm.