Horses and pregnancy

Freemont, I agree with your husband 100% about the disinfecting too much, I have always said that it has lead to bacteria to has become more aggressive and has lowered the human immune system. An example of this is just 2 weeks ago, Quinton had to take Jewely into the family doctor's for her check-up , weigh in and imunizations, during the appointment the doctor made comment that he hadn't seen Quinton for 6 years !!!! when he had to get a tetnus shot after stepping on a blank with a rusty nail in it !!! and that the entire Crazy Acres Family had the skawniest file folders in his office...

Have we been blessed !! maybe, but I like to think it has a lot to do with life style. My Husband and I were both raised in big farm families, our house had 15 in it most times, it was busy. and clean, but we had no indoor plumbing until I was 11, and even with that , we were so used of using an outhouse, that we werent allowed to use the indoor bathroom during the day, it was for night time and winter only !!! 4 girls slept in one small room and 2 beds, 7 boys shared a big room over the summer kitchen and 3 bed's. my Grandparents and Parents of course had their own rooms, but we never thought anything of it !!! In summer we all bathed at the creek running behind the house nightly like a little Boy Scout troop heading down the path to the river, and in winter , the younger ones all lined up in a row at the kitchen counter and one by one my Mother washed our faces and hands and you moved down the line to Grama and she did your legs and feet and then into clean Pajama's, they washed our hair in a counter pan and on Saturday's you got into the big tub for a full out scrubbing with at least 2 others, that was alot of water the boys had to hand pump outside and heat up to carry to a tub !!! LOLOLO.... Before school every Monday and Friday the older boys carried in all the water for Mom and Grandma to do laundry in an old Gas washer in the summer kitchen, hung it winter and summer, in winter it came off the line to be drapped all over the upstairs around the woodstove pipes criss crossing the bedrooms, and the ladies of my family being good French girls, ironed every single shred of cloth in the house CRISP !!! we all drank from a water pale on the counter with a tin dipper., there was always a mystery layer of sand in the bottom of the water pail !!! we all had the chicken pox and mumps, and if we did catch a cold , it was quickly extinguished with a camphore block pinned around your neck , mustard plaster , and good gulp of Buckley's, most virus's couldnt have survived to friggin drafty cold of the old palce, you could part your hair at every window, there was no Lully Gagging around in the morning in the winter, you put your cloths on under the covers to get dressed and ran for the cookstove in the morning to get a cup of tea on your way to the barn, it was way warmer in the barn, and I swear to God we were the largest consummers of Puffed Wheat in Canada , it wasn't out of being poor by any means, my Dad was a Mechanical engineer for GM and Grandfather put 38 years in Canada Wire and was always a savvy farmer and horse dealer, it was just our way of life.. My Grandparents and Father are gone now, but when we all get together every couple of years from one end of the country to the other, we do nothing but laugh our butts off at the antics of it all, we were so happy and healthy , could we fight with the best of them and fire frozen horse shit at one and another..YOU BET !!! were we always teasing each other, YES.. did we feel disappointment at not always being the best ..YES !! could we accept our failures as well as our acheivements.. YES.. But I feel we were blessed with a sense of devotion to one and another, and I'm certain you will see none of us on Oprah Winfrey complaining about our poor self image.

Of course I'm raising my guy's with hydro and running water, but I try and keep some of those old principles and inconveniences, and live by the saying " you hve to eat a peck of dirt before it will kill you !!! Does anyone know what the hell a peck of dirt is ??? LOLOLO I know I must of ate it..