In Absentia

[PrttyBrd]

Sorry I've been out of touch. Spring has bitten my hubby in the butt and now he's running around making plans to fix things around the house and I have to follow him making sure he doesn't break anything else. He was going to fix a wobbly step in front of the house, well, now we have no steps as somehow they broke. There's only two of them, but they weren't solid cement and now there is a hole where the top step used to be. Yeah, something that could swallow my two youngest ones. I'm not too happy about that. Anyway, after that fiasco I had to pretend to be attentive and bring him tea or lemonade every two seconds just to make sure he didn't tear anything else up. I get nothing done when that man is home, I swear!On the upside, I got some chicks! To be honest (this is going to sound awful) I got them as testers. I wasn't sure how my two youngest would handle them. So far, it's only the three year old that makes me worry. He's a bit rough. He might suffer as I did as a child and hold them until they "fall asleep". Can you believe that I was grown before I realized that in my youth, I loved so many chicks to death. I was mortified. So now, I watch the kids like a hawk and am trying to teach them. The four year old is like a chicken whisperer. They come flocking to him and just sit there with him. I've never seen anything like it.I'm all excited. I've wanted chickens since we moved out here some years back. I got a fancy egg incubator from a friend who never used it and a dozen fertilized eggs to hatch. I'm thrilled. Now, if hubby would just put the chicken pen back together I'd have nothing to complain about, hahaha. I won't bother him too much, he has about a month before the little ones are ready to be put in it anyway.