Introducing....

Hello....I'm "Mama Hen"....I have 3 kids...a 5 year old boy, an almost 4 year old boy, and a 22 month old little girl...for the sake of internet safety, let's call them Brainy Chick, Busy Chick, and Chickette...I'm sure you'll see why soon enough!

I am creating this blog as a place to keep my stories about these little chicks....if it happens to be entertaining to you to read what my every day is like...laugh it up!  Maybe I'll make you feel a little less frazzled...or disorganized, or forgetful :)

A little history of us....we live on a small farm somewhere pretty, we have the 3 human chicks, myself and my husband....for the sake of this blog, we'll call him The Rooster....please note that we do not have any actual roosters at this house, so when I refer to The Rooster, I am actually referring to my husband!  Seems easy enough right...well, maybe....we have 12 chickens...I'll talk about them on here often....our adventures in chicken farming are comical at best!  We also have 2 dogs, I'll let them keep their real names...Marley is our boxer puppy...she just turned 1, and Tucker is our blind as a bat in the daytime Jack Russell...they make an interesting pair!  We have a cat that lives under our front porch, b/c that's what happens when you live out in the country...he/she doesn't have a name, and we don't feed him/her...I assume he/she eats mice and moles...truth be told, I fed it kitten food once in an effort to tame it and it ran off never to be seen again for weeks...I was pretty sure it lost the battle of survival of the fittest out here, until I saw it catting around on our property....Lastly, we have bees...in a hive....that's new to us, and I'm not sure if they're even doing what bees are supposed to be doing at this point....but I feel it necessary to include them in our inventory because they will probably, at some point, be the source of something funny!

Now that I've told you who's here...I will tell you that I'm a stay at home Hen...I also like to call myself a photographer...although raising Brainy Chick, Busy Chick, and Chickette are my first priority.

About the Chicks...

Brainy Chick is almost 5 1/2 years old....he is...well...brainy....he's very smart, and some might even call him a know it all! One day a few months ago, Brainy Chick set out to see how high he could count on the phone to my mom, she got off the phone with him at 650, and he kept going until he got to 950...and I did not help him except to hold his place for him if Busy Chick interrupted and made him forget where he was!  This kid proves to me that some people are just science and math people...I was not...he is.   He's going to Kindergarten in the fall, and no, even though I live in the country, I do not homeschool...that's great if you do, I have nothing against it...but Brainy Chick likes to argue...he particularly likes to argue with Mama Hen...so at this point, I felt that him going away to learn fun things was in everyones best interest!   Brainy Chick is finishing his first ever season of T-ball...just to give you an idea of where his heart truly is, I asked him if he wanted to play T-ball again next year and he said "nope, I want to do Science....Mama Hen, I want to do science experiences (he means experiments)  those are the best!"......Brainy Chick is also the kid that takes it all in, and he's recently gotten funny...or at least so he thinks.  He thinks it's hysterical to say "Mama Hen, I just vomited"....WHAT?  Then he follows that up with " I'm just kidding..."....um, yeah...real funny kiddo!

Busy Chick will be 4 years old in less than 2 weeks and he is BUSY. Don't get me wrong, he's also very smart...but he's as busy as he is smart. When he's tired, he gets especially busy.  He idolizes his big brother, and I a little bit fear that he'll be somewhat lost without him next year when Brainy Chick is off at school 5 days a week.   Busy Chick can be the sweetest kid ever...and often lays a smooch on my arm, and then says "Mama Hen, I just kiss-ded you"....but, every sweet side has a rotten side for this chick....when he's in time-out, he spits...and that pushes my buttons and ruffles my feathers in a way that I never thought possible.  I've tried EVERYTHING to make this spitting spot...I've ignored it, he spits more, I've put soap in his mouth...didn't really deter him much at all, we've done time-out, spanking (yes I spank, leave now if you have a problem with that)....the one thing I have found that worked is I made him sit out for the first 5 minutes of his gymnastics class when he spat in my car on the way there...he hated that, and it was very effective.  Busy Chick LOVES his baby sister, and he LOVES his dogs...he will actually weep if Tucker won't lay with him.  Marley's still, well, a boxer puppy, so she's not a reliable snuggler just yet.  You will be hearing about Busy Chicks games later on...he's always got something up his sleeve.

Chickette will be 2 in about 2 months and she's starting early.  She was a VERY easy and laid back baby, like Brainy Chick, but she's taking on some of Busy Chicks more stubborn traits as of late, so I'm not entirely sure what's going on with her right now.  She doesn't talk much...but is picking up new words daily.  Brainy Chick sat her down on his bed today with all of his bedtime buddies and began to teach her to talk...and it actually worked, so like any good mother, I praised them both and video taped this monumental occasion!   Chickette is funny, and can be quiet when she wants to be...you can be with her for hours and not hear her make a peep....but, strap that lady into a shopping cart at the grocery store and you WILL hear her in all corners of the store...and if you happen to be her unlucky Mama Hen, you will receive the "oh you poor thing" stares, or even better yet the "what were you thinking bringing 3 kids those ages to the store, have you no sense" stares...those are my favorites.  Chickette sleeps like a dream at night, but can take or leave a nap during the day.  She also thinks she's between 3-5 years old.  She likes to wear dresses, which is just fun for me because I am so enjoying dressing a girl up!  She also likes to play in the mud...see...every side of my little coins has a flip side as well!  Chickette is no longer afraid of our actual chickens...she started out afraid of them...can't say that I blame her since Brainy Chick and Busy Chick hand fed them worms, they come running when they see people....but now, she chases them and tries to pet their feathers.  She also loves to read.

The Rooster doesn't really need much of an introduction...he works for a job, does farmy outside things on the weekends, loves spending time with his family, is amazingly handy, and is a huge supporter of me and my photographic ambitions!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy your visit!

Mama Hen