Why do you always milk a cow from the right side?

Tonight Mallory and I were reading a Little House on the Prarie book.  We were reading a chapter called Milking Time.  While reading, Laura was milking a cow from the left side and Ma told her not to do that because the cow would kick her.  Ma said, "Always milk a cow from it's right side".  I looked to Mallory and I asked, " I wonder why you have to milk a cow from the right side?"  Mallory looked at me with the most serious look on her face and said, "OHHH... That's must be because one side is plain milk and the other side is chocolate milk!!"  Well hello, that does sound like a good reason, but of course it isn't.  Do you know why?  We never found out, but we laughed and laughed about it.  She can be so funny sometimes.

Valentine's Dinner

We celebrated Valentine's Day at our house today!  I was in the kitchen all day preparing a special meal for all of us (4 of us) to eat.  Did you get that... ALL DAY!!  I don't know how people cook like that all the time.  I made Libby's mashed potatoes (with cream cheese, sour cream, etc...) and her recipe for Beef Brisket.  I made Lulu's broccoli casserole.  Then for something sweet, I made Kelly Partlow's Strawberry Pretzel Delight.  It was all sooo yummy!!  I got out my fine china and crystal and set it on the dinning room table.  We never eat in the dinning room unless it is something special.  I had gormet desserts that my mom had someone make for us in the center of the table along with a candle.  We really had a special meal.  Everyone was very complimentary. 
My favorite gift I gave John and the girls were their own journals.  In the journal, I wrote that it was meant for us to write notes to each other about anything and everything that was one their minds.  They don't have to write everyday or every week, just when they have something to say.  Then once they have written something, they are to put it on my pillow and that lets me know they wrote something to me.  I will then write them back.   I bought these a week ago, because I thought that sometimes you can write something better than you can say it.  I also expect that I will grow to cherrish and look back on the many entries for the years to come.