It is the MAY thread!!!!!

[MommyRose]

Nikki, I've heard 5-7 months for laying. The hatching and them raising them part is too cool! Here's the current plan that I'm instituting today! I'm going to order 25 roosters along with 10 or so hens. I want hens that lay larger eggs then the ones I have...Henrietta's eggs are small. Besides, I don't think 15-20 hens is too many! When we have too many we can gift or sell or let a hen nest! We are going to harvest our current rooster and keep a big one from the assorted mix we get and let him be the new daddy. The new batch of chickens will be brooded and raised out in the back goat pasture where they can work up the soil and fertilize. Maybe the rooster won't bother us so much out there? It's worth a shot! Mama Hen only hatched out 8 of the 11 eggs. I kept poking the eggs under her but she abandoned them 3 times. SO, my sister advised putting them in the dehydrator with a bowl of water (for humidity) at 100 degrees. I could still hear them chirping and there were only pin prick of a hole in the egg! They've been in the dehydrator for a half hour or so and am still hearing 2 chirp. One whole has increased to where we can see the beak and part of the bird. It'd be so cool if they hatch!!

We are having an 'attitude adjustment learn to love your brother' or else type of day! We are getting the yard cleaned up in the bargain...

Match? My kids (cept for one...he's anti camo) believe camo goes with everything! Hahaha! "Mom, what I love about camo is it goes with everything." Right...not in my book!

[WendyD]

"Mom, what I love about camo is it goes with everything."

Way to funny!!!! Love it. Have fun with those eggs hatching. That is so much fun. Yeah for a clean yard. I actually have fun with the chores when my DS gets himself in a bit of hot water. lol Last time my bathrooms got pretty clean.

OK, getting over it, but still fumming. My DD lost or tossed out her yearbook. Do you know how expensive these blooming things are????? She says she doesn't know anything. I spoke to her teacher and my DD's was the first given out. I can't get an answer out of her. I highly suspect that she tossed it out because she didn't want one. Yeah, she's been known to pull stuff like that. What I love about this years is it has several pictures of her in there. I had to send her dad up to deal with her in her room because I was to hot under the collar. His punishment was that she has to pay for a new one. He says she'll want it later so she has to have one and this cost her the equivalent of 2 build-a-bear stuffed animals. I confess, when I get angry I just want to keep adding punishments. I have to stop at one punishment and let it go and leave it be and forgive. But this BUGS me big time...motherhood is hard.

[just7]

HUGS, Wendy! I agree, motherhood is hard! I have listened to my dad tell me every time he has visited how I'm not hard enough!! When the children were all younger, I WAS hard and that scared me. Now that they are all older and voicing all their opinions, I cave more times than not!! I would think the teacher would give the parents the yearbooks, though. That is a young age!

25 roosters??? Are you crazy, Rose?? ha ha Every so often our neighbor behind us comes over and tells us that they have too many roosters and they are driving his wife crazy waking her up so early. (They have animals as "pets" and the chickens hatch out eggs wherever they roost) So my kids go over and help him butcher all the roosters and then he gives most of them to us for stewing.

Nikki--2 high schoolers? You will make it---I think!! I have 2 right now. One is supposed to graduate this year....maybe by the end of the year! And another one starting in the fall. Only he is severly dyslexic and his high school years will look much different from the others. But all the attendant "attitudes" and such are still present!!!

DD is 10 1/2 but has hit that pre-adolescent spread. This bathing suit, I think, will just hang and expose once it is wet! I'm thinking about getting a boy's bathing shirt and another coverup swim skirt to wear when she is swimming. She could benefit from having those items so it may all be good.

Tomorrow dh finally catches up to me and we can be 50 together!!! I have never felt the 26 day separation as much as I have this time!!! LOL

My oldest dd has "forced" me to have one of those Home Parties for a company called Thirty-One. They sell all kinds of bags and totes, etc. I hate these things!!! As of right now, I believe that only one person is coming!! LOL The rest of the fam wants to hit the movies to get out of the house. Of course, dd is having her OWN party next Friday and so the fam will have to vacate again!!

Have a great weekend all!

[WendyD]

Jennifer - Oh, I hate those kinds of parties too. I told my girlfriends that they can just have a girls night without having to sell me something. :-)

Um, well, I went back up to the school and her teacher found her yearbook this morning. Whew! And....now we need to do some apologizing and further discussions on why we did what we did. She's rather good at sneaking around and doing her "pretend" lying, that I didn't believe her. And when she tells the truth she says "I"m not lying!" She never said that, so I really assumed she was lying. I think she really didn't know for sure what on earth happened. I had her give me her money to buy a new year book this morning. I'll give her the money back and the part of it was a Target gift card from Christmas. She was more upset about losing the gift card than the money. KIDS! I'm praying this is a lesson learned for her.

[lorig]

I'm going to start a new thread for June!