The Cow Jumped over the moon!!!

I am like really amazed and totally speechless from today's visit to the Dairy farm. I mean seeing the cows on the farm and watching them being milked really put things in perspective concerning where our food comes from. The cows were so trained and knew the routine when entering the milking station which was surprisingly clean. I don't know what I was expecting, but I got so much more from the experience. I was initially greeted by the smell. I saw cows in labor delivering calves and I must be honest that I cried seeing a stillborn calf. It was amazing as a mother of three breastfed babies, I in some sort of strange and kooky way related to the cows. It really amazed me to see the entire operation which is a professional business. I realized half-way through the tour that this was in fact the owners business and milking cows is big business. It is really something to think about the process and "dirty" jobs or bare truths behind a gallon of milk. I think that sometimes we take for granted the effort when entering a supermarket. A grocery store is presented as a luxury where food is beautifully packaged and presented in such a way that we don't have to acknowledge any of the specifics. I go into Kroger's, etc and I have options and choices which are readily available and never once do I even think about exactly where that gallon of milk may have come from and I really believe that this is exactly the way grocers would have it because guess what that is their business. I am still trying to find the words to accurately describe my experience today but as for right now I will just say that I plan to take my children back next weekend because they need to see this and I can guarantee that they will never be the same because I sure am not.