Thursday, November 20, 2008

November is a bad month

We have had such a bad run this month. See if you personally, can top this..?
We got antibiotics in the milk, which meant that we had to tip out over 5000 litres of milk. That will effect so many things - our reputation, our season of milk solids, our financials. That was a bad day.
The following day, I blew the engine up on our main vehicle which is going to cost us thousands to fix. It was on the way to school, dropping my girls off. I had the dogs with me and had to walk with the children to a nearby house.
We also had an employee quit which meant that we have to advertise again and go through the entire process again.
Our 2nd main vehicle stopped going into gear.
The payout is dropping like a sack of shit, which means that if we had done our budgets like everyone else, we'd be going incredibly broke about now!
I lost my necklace that my husband had recently bought me.
And last but not least.. my puppy got ran over. I dont even know who did it - the gutless asshole never told me. They didnt inform anyone of it - we had to find him with a fucked leg.

Thinking about how bad of a month I've had, its also nearly my 3rd daughters birthday. She is due to be 3 at the end of the month. I belong to a community online and there are a lot of threads of 'due dates', I remember joining my due date thread when I was pregnant with my 3rd daughter, and getting to know the other mums a bit better. The highs, the lows, the ins, the outs.
One particular mother had her baby girl the very day before I had my daughter. Such a special time, and so our daughters birthdays are due to fall within the next fortnight.
Her little girl wont see her birthday.
She died of cancer only a couple of days ago.
There is her journal online that brings everyone to tears.
There are not many words that can express what I feel. This is hard.
We have had such a hard, financial and emotional month, and yet all of our problems together would never equate to just one day, of having to watch your 2 year old die before your eyes.

At the end of the day, we tipped the milk out - we have insurance to cover that.
Our vehicle broke down on the way to school. I had planned to do a 7 hour trip in it and yet it broke down near our house.
Our employee quitting is awesome - we can replace him with someone who doesnt hurt the cows and someone who actually cares about them.
We fixed our 2nd vehicle with simple transmission oil.
The payout might be dropping, but our investment that we made in a piece of machinery is nearly paying for itself in the first year of ownership.
My daughter had taken my necklace to school with her and her teacher sent it home with her so I got it back.
My puppy at worst, will have a broken leg and need orthapedic surgery which will cost a lot - who cares, its only money. We would pay whatever it takes for him to be better and healthy.

There are positives to all of our negatives - where is the positive in a child dying of cancer?
That, I will never answer.

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