It seems that preparing to release birth announcements is a lot like cooking Thanksgiving dinner.
Spend days or weeks getting stuff ready, taking hundreds of pictures and sorting through them to find the few that are perfect (or at least good enough) to put on a birth announcement email attachment.
Double-check all the emails you’ve received to be certain you have everyone in an email group so nobody gets left out due to a mistake on our part.
Check that last ewe again. The one that’s holding out on you, not giving any indication when she is going to have a baby (Is she even pregnant, you sometimes ask yourselves)
And then, you finally say “this is it” but, just before you hit send, you make a friendly wager with your spouse. What length of time are you taking before we get a response? Me? I’m taking 7.5 minutes. Amy took the “over.” Amy was right this time, by a few minutes. We made this same bet when she sent the first email. I chose 13 minutes, and I won easily that time.
So, the email goes out and she looks at me 2 hours later and said “that’s it, we’re out of babies.”
“Seriously? Two hours? Well, now someone has to clean this mess up.” :-)
A list of our 2020 lambs can be found on our 2020 Lambs Page
