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Life on a chicken farm can be hard work, but it also offers me a great opportunity to spend time with my baby girl and my toddler son. I love to share our adventures, our joy, laughter, and even occasional sadness. Plus you can learn a little about c
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The Battle Rages On
I slowly step up into the room. The sign on the door marked confessional catches my glance, and for a minute a deep sense of despair tears through my body like the first drop on a megadeath roller coaster ride. What can I do, there is the computer ri...
Severe Weather
This was a bad week for weather. I should learn to be more tuned into watching the weather channel or looking at weather.com because it always seems as if the inclement weather sneaks up on me. This past Friday the weather caught us off guard agai...
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I like Tuesdays. I like them because it seems the best day to just blurt stuff out and not worry about putting things into any logical order. I think that Keely over at the UnMom is to thank for allowing us this Tuesday freedom from order by coming u...
Sick Little Girl
There should be a law. The law should say that kids in preschool have to wash their hands every 30 minutes. You might be able to guess why I would be an advocate for this new law, which sadly is not and will never be a real law. We are all sick again...
Randomocity
1. The funniest thing to the baby lately is “1 - 2 -3 SWEET POTATOES!!” 2. The funniest joke to T lately is” Why was the cat playing with the others? Because they were playing cat!” No, I don’t get it, but I guess it&#...
If I Could Put Time in a Bottle…
Baby Q is just developing so quickly. It is amazing to watch her go from stage to stage. I barely remember T going through all those stages. Time goes so fast that you never really get a chance just to absorb what is happening to them developmentally...
Are You Kidding Me???
The bronchitis came back and my nose is stuffed up again. How am I supposed to run a farm if I am feeling deathly ill and can’t breathe. (Yup, still overly dramatic.) Seriously though, this is the same thing I just got over. We send T back to s...
A Week in Review
Being it is the New Year, and people usually do the Year in Review, and being that my memory isn’t very good, I decided to only write about the last week. And What a week it was. Monday: After so many sick days, and then Christmas I was final...
Christmas
The night before Christmas, T and I read the story of the same name. We set out a plate with cookies and milk for Santa, and carrots for the reindeer, and then put T and Q to bed. Being that this was the first Christmas where T actually knew that t...
Fighting the common cold
It seems to be that time of year again. That time where the common cold virus comes crashing through the front door, attached to a preschooler, and wreaks havoc on our lives for a week or so. This years strain seems to be more potent than the prev...
Wordless Wednesday
I wanted to participate in Wordless Wednesday today. I am seldom wordless, and this will be no exception. This picture caught me off guard. I was teaching T how to use the digital camera, and he pushes too hard when he takes the picture, so the whole...
T’s Outdoor Adventure
As you might have read previously, my chicken houses currently sit empty. I have sprayed them with powdered bug killer and now they have to sit a few days locked up. That leaves me some extra time I normally don’t have. I thought the best thing...
First Attempt at Baking Bread
There has been an ongoing discussion between my wife and I about bread. I am not sure if we had been to some hypnotist and don’t remember it, or what happened, but we seem to be having a lot of discussions about bread. Quite often they involve ...
Q is So Close to Crawling
My little baby Q is now six months old, and she is so close to crawling that I think it really frustrates her. She can see things near her, and because she is so curious she just has to get over to them to grab it. I can see in her face how determine...
We Elfed Ourselves!
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The Podium and the Sleep Over
Toddlers are so wonderful for providing material to write about. I think it is just that you get to a point where you think you have them all figured out. I mean, you spend every day with them you think you can predict what they will say or do, but...
A good bad day
How terrible was my day? Oh let me count the ways: Problem 1: I went up to check on the chickens this morning and was reminded of a failing relay switch that needed replaced by the annoying beeps coming from the control box. If that switch fails the...
Rhinoplasty at Three?
Bedtimes are always interesting. You never know what will happen. What excuse will he create today to try to and stay up just a little longer? Here is tonight’s story and the solution. I read T a bedtime story every night. It is our own littl...
Did He Just Say That?
I think I just lost my first argument to my three year old son. Well, I am not sure it was actually an argument per se. All the same, I am sure I was the one who lost. T was playing a video game by himself, and as usual he was asking a lot of [...]...
Touch a Truck Day
This week end we took T out to Touch a Truck Day. It was an excellent idea, and I had never heard of anything like that before. It was just a day set up by the city and county governments to let young kids come out and have a hands on experience with...
You Know You Are a Dad When…
The other day I was holding Q. Actually, I had just fed her a bottle, and holding her up on my shoulder so she could burp. She was up with her head the same height as mine, and she slowly turned her head to look at me. As her face got adjusted so tha...
Presidential Election
I was hoping to avoid this topic. Seriously, it always gets messy. Unfortunately, I have such a strong feeling about it and so much frustration that I want to get it off my chest. I am not sure which is more unsettling to read, this post or the creep...
Spiders, Beetles, Wasps and Ants Oh My!
If you have an aversion to bugs and spiders I’d recommend skipping today’s graphic post. No, seriously. It is gross, but who else can I talk to about it? I’ll get it out of the way once, and hopefully not mention it again, unless I ...
Trip to Grandma and Grandpa’s House
Last night T and I went on a little adventure. We headed over to grandma and grandpa’s house for the night. My wife was having a group of ladies come over for a Wii night. Wii tends to get loud when you are really having fun with it, and loud d...
