Play Farm

While I would love to have a small hobby farm to raise a few chickens, a cow, and perhaps a pig or two, that just is not in the cards for us right.  What we do have is my husband's job as a manager at a local feed mill and his great contacts with many local, organic farmers.  We are at a farm at least one day each week to pick up our milk and every few weeks we go with my husband when he goes to visit a few of his customers.  The farmers are always very gracious about letting the kids explore the animals.  They get to feed, ride, gather...it is awesome! 

At home I have noticed that playing farm has been the game of choice over the past few weeks.  Just this morning while sitting out back sipping my coffee I looked over to see Taj and Peylyn at the water table "milking the cow."  I couldn't stop laughing, Taj was letting out a little water from the top while Peylyn was catching it in a bucket from underneath.

The other week our neighbor gifted them a pack of chalk eggs for the first day of spring.  For weeks my kids would not draw with them, they hid them in the grass and would call out that it was time to gather the eggs.  Peylyn would get a bucket and run to find the eggs for us.

Perhaps one day my kids will get to milk their own cow, but for now I feel very blessed with what we do have.