Author: mjbackyardingwithkids

I’m finally done with redoing the fish tank stand! I’m very happy with how it turned out. It did take me a little longer to get it done, my baby wanted to help… a lot! After all the little hands that got turned blue from grabbing the paint I would like to say I wouldn’t change a thing… Lol I would change the little blue hand prints that are now on my other wall.

Happy labor day weekend! Our weekend will be celebrating our babys first birthday! I can’t believe that it has been a year, We are doing a lumber jack theme birthday, I made blue cup cakes and will be putting red frosting with little black lines going a cross them, then topping it off with little axes. Hopefully I will be getting some project’s done before we celebrate!

What a long day! We didn’t get done with school until late in the day and the baby was very fussy! My projects got put on hold for the day, but that’s okay because watching my kids play outside on this nice summer day is worth it all. I love how they include their baby brother who will be turning one on Saturday! He also took two steps today, seeing the look on his sibling’s faces as he takes those steps is just priceless.

The funny looks chickens can give you. I know most say well it’s a chicken how could they give you looks or have different personalities. Well they do! Bella didn’t like that I was in the nesting boxes today. She was squawking at me, when I started taking photos of her. She bent over like a mom yelling at her kid to let her have 5 mins of peace! I swear if she could talk I bet she say “get the hell out of here” or ” your father is home go ask him”

When you walk in on your chicken laying an egg and she gives you the look of, leave me the hell alone! Lol. Well even though we got the look of death, my daughter got to see her lay an egg. The look on my daughter’s face was so cute. I’ll never forget the smile that spread across her face! She couldn’t wait to tell her father.

My beautiful roses! I can never decide if I should cut my roses and put them in a vase to have something pretty on my kitchen counter or to leave them on the vine. Well besides taking photos of my roses I got some of the medium rocks moved. Next I need to get the dead weeds cleaned out then I can start putting the decorative stones I want to get to make the borders for the garden beds.

This evening I was out pulling weeds, sucks that is almost September and we are still getting new weeds. Like always I give the weeds to my chickens! As I was giving them the weeds Bella jumps up on my lap, of course I had to take a photo of her cute little face. After school, I got chocolate chip cookies made for the kids, and a color picked out to paint the fish tank stand. Scandinavian blue! I can’t wait to get started on it. I haven’t decided on a design that I want to put on it yet though. My 3 year old wants to help .. But he also wants me to put a cartoon character on the stand. I really don’t want a paw patrol on my stand. 😂😂

The first week of school is done! Whoo hoo! The week went better than I thought it would have, we only had one really long day. The baby was extremely fussy today, teething is just no fun. Now that it’s the weekend, time to tackle some of the house projects, and bake some brownies. I will be getting the rest of the painting done in the bathroom. Then I will get the light switch changed out. I want to change them from a flip switch, to a push button. I will be picking out paint, to paint the fish tank stand. I’m thinking of doing it white with some kinda design, maybe maroon roses. Looking forward to that!

Got some treats for my chickens today! Oats and mealworms, yum yum! My kids didn’t go with out a treat either, no they didn’t have th same treat as the chickens, we got them some popsicles and candy. It’s funny how a popsicle looks so innocent but it’s not. Kids can make a mess with just one popsicle, they can use it to make art on my counter or what I like to call the running art. That’s where it’s running down your kids arm and dripping off their elbow, but the smile on their face is worth the sticky mess that will come from the popsicle. So take photos of their “art” and remember that days like this will not last forever.

Today my kids started school! I do love doing online schooling with them, even though it gets crazy, and can make the day very long. For their first day back, they did good. My oldest son had a great first day of high school. He likes all of his teachers. That is always a plus. My daughter read a few pages of a book all by herself. That is a very big deal for us, so we did lots of high fives and way to go’s. It’s nice when your kids get excited about something that they said they couldn’t do, but you know that they can.. so when that moment where they take the leap, and stop saying I can’t, and start with I can, is a great thing to watch as a parent.