Satin Pajamas & Carhartt Overalls

Sometimes I feel like a contradiction.

I like pretty clothes but before buying them I ask myself 

if I could tromp through the sheep pasture in them. 

I talk sweetly to my chickens but 

can scream at the pigs in a split second.

I curl my hair and put on makeup but 

I schedule both around barn chores.

I love to garden without gloves but 

I don't like dirt under my finger nails.

I prefer heeled shoes because they make me taller but 

I wear cowboy boots because they are easier to scrape poop off. 

I make pretty aprons to wear but 

I wipe farm grime on them.

Yes, I'm a contradiction.

I had this contradiction revelation a few nights ago after I got ready for bed and settled into my satin pajamas. Only then I realized that I had not locked up the chickens and a skunk has been sneaking around the coop!  Quick as lightning I put on my Carhartt overalls and coat and pulled on my pink mud boots.  Splashing through the puddles out to the coop, I gazed up at the moon.  "Why am I doing this?" I thought.  And then on the way back to the house, I realized, it is because I love it.

Satin pajamas and Carhartt overalls is what I have become. 

I'm a FARMGIRL now!

Even the word is a contradiction.

That's what makes it wonderful, I think.

I wouldn't have it any other way.


Each of you should look not only to your own interests,
 but also the the interests of others.
Philippians 2:4