Category: backyarding with kids and every day house projects

I spent a lot of time on what to name my coop. I know to some this must seem silly. For me it was something I wanted to accomplish.

I finally fell in love with ” delicious cluckers” no I as of right now do now have any meat birds but some day I would like too. I found this name to be funny. I’m not the best at painting letters but I do love how my chicken turned out! #funnyname #chickens #farmlife #lovemycoopname

Went out today and cleaned out the girls (chickens). Scrub down the roosting pole and their ladder that leads to the nesting boxes. I also added more pine shavings for their bedding in the nesting boxes and on the ground floor of the coop. Then we decided to take some selfies!

My girl Medusa and I. #lovemygirls #chickensaremylife #lookatherwaddles

Today was a low key day for myself. My kids and I got some cleaning done then we took a lazy Saturday. I got my sewing stuff out and made another pillow. I call this one thrown roses. Only messed up in a few places but it still looks cute.

Tonight I made my first throw pillow! I love the fabric that my husband found for me! I still have some learning to do on how to hide my stitches but I don’t think I did too bad of a job for my very first time! #sewingrocks #chickens #lovechickens #chickenpillow #chickenthrow

Before school had some fun with the girls (chickens). We did a little video of them drinking.

It wasn’t a nice day today. It was very grey I know for most people they don’t like the overcast grey sky. I however love it! I had planned on cleaning the girls (chickens) roosting poles but with the weather being grey and then raining I didn’t want to take the baby outside, so cleaning the roosting poles will be put on tomorrow’s to do list.

For Christmas my wonderful husband got me a sewing machine! After reading the instruction booklet and getting no where because to me it was like reading a foreign language. I turned to YouTube videos, watching those for two and half days I finally felt that I could give it a try and for about an hour I couldn’t get my machine threaded. My wonderful husband came up to see how I was doing and after watching one of the videos he was able to get it threaded! I still have a lot to learn and I need to remember the names of the things but for right now I have my own names for them. For example this is a rotary cutter

I call it a pizza cutter🤣. I did get my first blanket made tonight I made a few mistakes but over all I like it for my first time.

😊😊😊 #sewing #cantwaittodomore #needtolearnthenames

For many of us, we have been on winter break from school. It’s a nice two weeks that just like any other vacation goes by way to fast! With that being said I really don’t want to go back to school!!! I enjoyed the mornings with no alarm clock going off. Well the baby is kinda like alarm clock, but at least he’s a cute one, not having to rush to get breakfast done. My older kids are not morning people, so trying to have them pick between cheerios or captain crunch is like being on a game show, and you’re not sure you should pick door number two or three, or having to start school at eight am and spend my days doing school and then everything that comes in the day. Now back onto a schedule again counting down the days until spring break!! #busylifehappylife #school #likesvacationbetter

Over the last few days I’ve gotten some B & P ( baking &painting) done. For my painting I used the colors pink, red, and purple for my leaves. At first I wasn’t sure if it was going to look right but now that I’m all done with it, it reminds me of the Valentine’s heart candies!

For my baking that I was able to get done was cheesecake egg rolls. They were fun to make. However the egg roll part didn’t get over so well with the four older kids.

I however liked them… more for mom 😂😂 #lovebaking #lovepainting #funday #moreformom

Today was a nice day where I’m at. I let the girls (chickens) run around. Since I’m a back yard chicken hobbyist I don’t let the girls free range like if they were on a farm. They do however get their time out of the coop.

My kids have a trampoline. I took plastic fencing, and placed it around the bottom of the trampoline, using zip ties to hold it in place. This way my girls can get out of the coop and still be safe.