Package!

Hello my blogger family.  I hope you have had a fabulous Friday so far.  I know I have. I am sitting down to the computer after exhausting myself from this morning!  I got three of the munchkins off to school and fed and watered to the two smaller munchkins and started getting things together for dinner.  heehee!  I am SO SO SO excited to make dinner today because of two reasons.  1) it's homemade spaghetti sauce (I'm talking the Italian secret spaghetti sauce here, recipe from my mother in law who is 100% Italian!  yummmmmm) Plus I'm adding some cheese ravioli to it this afternoon.  and 2) I'm using my first package of the 300 pounds of beef we brought home Wednesday night! 
I highly recommend buying organic beef.  I'm not one of those complete fruit and nuts because I will eat candy and ice cream and chocolate, but I do LOVE LOVE LOVE my organic cow.  We started getting organic cow shortly after having Grace and reading all the wonderful things they put into red meat (well, any meat really) when we were in Fayetteville.  We had this really great place in Missouri that was about 45 minutes away that only accepted beef from certified organic farmers.  They packaged it up for us in the increments of beef we wanted, like 50% ground beef, 20% roasts, steaks, etc, etc.  They've been doing this a long time, so most often we said, the usual please! 
Anyway, we used to split the cow with various friends and so forth, but we would run out of meat much faster then they would (and we don't really eat a LOT of red meat, but we do get about 1 serving a week, which according to RealAge.com is just fine!).  So we started ordering half a cow and it lasted a fair amount of time.
Well, we moved up here and had to buy store bought meat for the first few months and in fact, I almost stopped buying it completely because let me tell you, there is nothing like fresh meat that has literally come off the field, slaughtered and processed and brought to your house within a week.  It's the freshest tasting meat you'll ever eat, unless you find a restaurant that has a cow pasture out back...  Anyway, we found a farm right here in Western New York, a little less then an hour from our house and they send the cattle off to be processed (to a nearby USDA meat processor) but include it in the cost of the cow and it's all organic, too.  Now before you go fufu on me, and say, but those cows need their meds. or they'll go mad!  These cows are vaccinated and given vitamins, but they are not forced to eat certain cheap grains, they are NOT given ANY growth hormones, and they are free to roam around on their HUGE land!  Ricky said they had a gorgeous farm and I can see why, the meat ain't cheap.  But the taste and the health reasons alone, balance the cost out just fine and now as I said before, there are 300 pounds of a cow in my freezer down in the basement.  yummmm....
So my sauce got to stewing on the stove, I cleaned the kitchen, mopped, and vacuumed the entire house.  I finished all the kids laundry, which if laundry can be a cinch, it is now that I own a really cool washer and dryer that are those side loading, high energy efficient machines?  I can put a TON of laundry in the washer and by lunch I'm done with a weeks worth of kid clothing!  Awesome.  Not to mention, I'm helping to save the environment. 
So the two smallest munchkins and I ate lunch and now they are resting comfortably with little G reading Marebear a story as she falls asleep. 
So, to discuss my title!  I got a package in the mail yesterday!!  I LOVE getting mail.  It completely makes my day.  Sometimes I order stuff from Amazon, just to get a package.  Just kidding.  I don't really.  But this package came from Amazon and it contained my two NEWEST books that I can hardly wait to read! 
The first one is another great book from Scott Hahn titled, "Reasons to Believe, How to understand, explain, and defend the Catholic faith."  I've heard a lot of great reviews over that one and I've read a lot of his books.  He was a protestant preacher who found the Catholic church to be very biblical (shock!).  He's a great teacher of the faith.  If you ever want to learn more, I would highly recommend his book (cowritten with his wife, Kimberly) titled "Rome Sweet Home."  Anyway, I can't wait to tackle that one. 
My second book is called "Fatherless" by Brian J. Gail and if you've ever read any of the Harry Potter, or Twilight books, it's just as thick as those!  Yikes!  But it's a brand new Catholic novel just released rather recently that i've read bits and pieces of in reviews and it looks incredible.  I'm diving into that one as soon as I finish this blog!  I'll keep you posted on what I think.  I know you'll wait with baited breathe.
Well, that's it for today. I might try to take some pictures of the cow in the freezer downstairs if I remember.  So don't hold your breathe for that one.
God bless you today!   OH!  BTW- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POPE BENEDICT!!!  WE LOVE YOU!  WE THINK YOU ARE DOING WONDERFUL THINGS FOR OUR CHURCH DESPITE WHAT THE MEDIA WANTS THE REST OF THE WORLD TO BELIEVE.  WE KNOW THE TRUTH.  THANK YOU!