The rooster began crowing at 5:00 a.m. So much for sleeping in and being well‐rested. There was nothing about a rooster in the brochure I had read about the farm, nor in the kids’ PowerPoint presentation. Thankfully, I was an early riser, albeit this was about 45 minutes before I usually awoke.
I turned over to see if our new rooster friend woke my husband, too, but he had managed to bring his noise‐canceling headphones. This led me to believe he had done some additional research about H. Ives Family Farms and failed to disclose the output of that research to me.
I was not worried about the kids. They sleep through anything, and also they stayed up past midnight last night. Actually, we all had. We played Uno and roasted s'mores and the girls ran around the farm with other children. The kids seemed much more interested in making friends than the parents did. The parents were outside on their cabin porches watching the kids run around while enjoying time with their significant other. The market lights strung between the trees lit up the pasture between all the cabins. The back of the cabins all faced the same direction, so it was easy to see the parents pretty much doing the same thing.
Normally, I would expect to see the soft glow of cell phones on people's faces in the darkness. Not here. It seems everyone was trying to Be Present last night.
This morning, ...
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