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A SNOW DAY IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL!

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On Monday I joked with many people that I hoped school was cancelled and we had a snow day on Tuesday!  Well when I woke up this morning I sent the peepettes to school and had my own snow day.  My little lady’s school was cancelled, but the peepeete’s school was in session.  Actually, hind sight is 20/20 as I really should have just kept them home.  The roads were ridiculous!  School should have been cancelled and if I was guessing I would say that tomorrow they will cancel school and it will stop snowing and be a semi-nice day-the school district got a lot of sh*t today on facebook (which they deleted-but some of us saw) for not closing school.

I did work some from home.  I DO ADMIT that I didn’t do as much as I told myself I would do.  This morning when I fed, I got to take my time.  Usually I am rushing around like a fast walking, fast hay throwing, water flinging wild woman of the west! This morning all the horses got a curry combing and some petting time.  It was fantastic.  Even though it was cold outside this morning, in the stall barn I was in HEAVEN. It wasn’t that cold inside and it was so nice taking my time!  Tonight I dawdled a little, but it was colder!  And much snowier!  We have over 20 inches and it is still snowing.  I have been THANKING GOD that we are getting this much snow (and that I got a snow day)!

The peepettes have talked me into letting them stay home tomorrow if the roads are still this bad and it is still snowing (if a snow day is not called).  I may not win the best mom of the year but I will be the most popular MOMMY-O in my household (WHICH I LOVE)!

When the peepettes got home and after they fed their  4-H animals, they went sledding in their cowboy boots (as they had left their snow boots outside and they got COVERED AND LOST by the snow).  They had a blast as you can see!  AND…I had so much fun watching them from the warm house with a brewski in hand!

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Hope all of your are soaking up the sun somewhere warm OR AT LEAST staying warm  in all this snow.

I leave you tonight saying SNOW ON!  HEHEHEH!

Alisha (AKA Wild Woman of the West)

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And the cowgirl rides again…

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My little lady is my horse girl!  She would rather ride her quarter/pony Sage them to play with her dolls. Any opportunity to ride she is there!

Earlier this week she had an opportunity to ride.  Some other little girls were at our house while their dads were riding.   I was just going to take turns leading the girlies on Sage.

The two older little ladies (mine and another one) wanted to ride by themselves. They both know how so I let those two ride by themselves.  In between their rides I would lead the smaller little lady around the arena.  After about an hour and a half my little lady rode for the last time-she rode to the other side of the arena.

She was having a blast I turn around the corner on my eye I see the 19-year-old pony/quarter horse bucking…with my little lady on her.  I was running toward them yelling: oh sh*t, oh sh*t…

(Side note here her horse riding teacher trains her to ride two-handed on the rains and not use the horn so she didn’t grab the horn).

SO A RECAP:  One buck, two buck, three buck THEN my little lady is on the ground.  That pony bucked 3 times and my little lady stayed on without holding the horn.   WHAT!

My little lady landed on her belly-dirt all over her body!  She was fine; just a little rattled. As she was crying and I was hugging her very tight!  I told her she had to get back on—-

There were other people in the arena that helped me coax her back on.

After a prayer that she wouldn’t be fearful she got back on—then I RAN inside with her—and gave her a warm bath!!

The part that is so amazing is she didn’t have fear—-she wanted to get back on HER horse! And she didn’t want her trainer to be mad at her horse…

Another proud mama moment!

As she lay next to me about that night–I couldn’t let her sleep in her own bed after the bucking incident–she said, “Mommy are you disappointed in me?”   I asked her why she thought that???  I was amazed that she was thinking that!

My little lady thought that since she didn’t stay on, I would be disappointed. How does a four-year-old grasp that concept?

I explained her over and over again that night that I was so proud of her that she was such a big girl!

And I also told her the next time if it ever happens that she needs to grab the saddle horn!

A couple days later when it was time for her training lesson I was even more proud that she got back up on that horse and had no problems the entire lesson.

When she was done with her lesson I had a toy zebra waiting for her she fell asleep with her arm around that hard zebra last night.

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Ever since then the zebra now goes everywhere with her—Walmart, the barn, kitchen table, bathroom…

What a GREAT little lady I have.  She amazes me daily!

Thanks for reading!

Alisha (AKA Wild Woman of the West)

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