“I don’t have a heart of steel,” my fiancé, Nick, said to me as we carried a stillborn calf out of the pen. I had been thinking the same thing, but I just wanted to put the calf where it belonged and keep working, not thinking about the sad situation. Later that same day I watched as he carried a beautiful, healthy, little calf inside to clean and warm her up. We bathed her, fed her, got her on her feet, and back with her mom in just a couple hours. Watching him smile as she started to get feisty and we knew she was going to be okay, made my heart so happy. There’s no faster way to a farm girl’s heart than through the cows.
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| Nick and I with the new mama and baby. |
The first time we danced together almost three years ago, he told me that his dream was to have thousands of cows some day. I was smitten from that moment on. There is nothing more precious than being able to look into your partner’s eyes and know that the same fire that fuels your soul, burns inside of them as well. I thank God every day that he gave me a man to work side by side with, day in and day out, growing our passions together in support of our common goal to one day have our own farm and feed the world one happy cow and healthy field at a time.
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