woveninhim - Where has time gone?

woveninhim

Aug. 8, 2008

Where has time gone?

Has it really been March since my last entry? Where has the time gone? The 4 year old is already up from rest time so I don't have much time to write but will try to bring you up to speed with our goings on.

Where to start?

Did we have our puppy, Lilly, and twelve chicks when I last wrote. Not sure but sometime back in the Spring we brought them home. Our first experience with raising chicks. It's been interesting! I think if we do it again I would like to hatch our own, but that's for sometime in the future. As I said we started out with 12 chicks, we now only have 9 (Lilly helped do away with two of the chickens and one died on its own) with 5 of them being roosters. The childrens books make you believe that roosters only cock-a-doodle-do in the morning but I'm here to say that it's a lie. They do it ALL day long. It's still been fun although husby may have something different to say.
Our puppy Lilly no longer looks like a puppy, but acts the part very much. She loves to play and is in to EVERYTHING, much to our dismay. Last night she broke into our screened porch where her little puppy sister, Milly, and our other new family member a gray kitty named Smokey are presently residing.

Well, the 4 year old has occupied himself all that he is able and is now needing Mommy's full attention so I must go for now. Maybe next time I'll be able to write more. Until then.

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Aug. 8, 2008 - Bi-annual posting

Posted by Gerald

Yes, it has been a while--five months, in fact. :-) And when last you posted you had just got 8 chicks and a puppy. Somehow, the 8 chicks multiplied to 12, then subtracted to 9. But ours did the same thing! Well, they did the subtracting thing. Two crushed by her sisters, three killed by a playful puppy, and one killed by a hawk. But 16 did escape becoming our Sunday dinner! We just never felt like cutting their throats, watching them die, de-feathering, etc. You become rather attached to them after a while and just plain don't want to do it. At least, we did.

I was hoping you'd have time to say how the homeschooling was going. Are they still being homeschooled as part of a co-op? And are you using Charlotte Mason's curriculum? That sort of thing. But I'll wait patiently until your next post. :-)

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Aug. 14, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by woveninhim

I know what you mean about them not becoming Sunday dinner. Even if husby could wring their necks and pluck them I don't think I could cook or eat them. Give me a chicken I don't know personally and I'm fine, but otherwise I can't do it. It would just seem wrong. I mean they're family.
As for homeschooling, yes we're still part of a co-op during the school year. But it breaks for the summer. I'm not doing the total CM curriculum but I'm planning on adding some of her theories to our homeschool. It may become more and more as time goes on. It sounds as if it's really working for your daughter. I would love to hear more.

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