Paper Products

The songs we sing as we go about our business in our home say a lot about our state of affairs. For instance, the older boys were singing songs from the Disney movie "Frozen" last Monday when we found two newborn lambs covered in icicles out in the pasture.

A different set of abandoned twin lambs were christened "Mary" and "Joe." While I feed Mary RUN DMC's song "Mary Mary" keeps going through my mind (and bursting out of my mouth) (I looked up the video. It's very corny, typical of the 80's).

Little Joe has difficulty walking. His nervous system was underdeveloped at birth. So he takes a few steps, falls down, and then he can't get up on his own. I sing (screech, a la Steven Tyler) Aerosmith's "Walk This Way."

This morning the oldest boy was singing the hymn "God Will Take Care of You." I know he is exhausted from keeping up with performance schedules, bottle feedings, advanced placement homework, and scholarship applications.

Or, perhaps, he is trying to comfort me as we face another HUGE winter storm with more ewes to lamb, a broken stove top, and dwindling feed supplies.

I'm not feeling shaken, however. Instead, I've been admiring how the family of Ben Sauer is coping with the struggle against brain cancer that they are facing with their four-year-old twin. I'm thrilled to see Buffalo and Niagara Falls go "blue for Ben."

I'm grateful that my 9-year-old stayed home alone yesterday and he was safe. Of course, he let the lambs out to romp all day...across my newly cleaned floors.

But I have paper towels.

I have a terrible cold. But it's Spring Break (which means I don't have to teach at the college tonight) and I have kleenex.

There should be a song that celebrates paper products.