The Bunch Finish Birthday Week

We did it. We made it through birthday week. Unfortunately, a stomach bug hit hard this week. A and T were both completely miserable with T being by far the worst in actual sickness. A was the worse by far with the moaning, complaining, and just general whining. You would have thought she was about 6 if you just went by behavior. Granted she doesn't get ill often, but boy is she exhausting. Fortunately, all is well now. L and I were only mildly ill and D somehow missed it entirely. I have banned all throw up stories because for some weird reason the kids like to regale us with their tales of sickness over and over, usually during a meal.

My girls played an intense volleyball game on A's actual birthday, which was too much for her and caused a relapse that night. Of course, the youth volleyball league changed the rules again. I mean why would they keep the same rules each year then everyone would know what is going on. They raised the points needed on the first two sets, which basically means the games will always run out of time now. The third set usually decides the winner and is always close; so stopping it midway and just declaring a winner by who is leading at the time is unfair. A couple points in volleyball is nothing. You could take the lead on your very next serve. I think a lot of parents will start complaining. They already have refs who mix up the score CONSTANTLY (you have to keep track yourself and correct them). This is one more thing they will inevitably have to deal with.

We lost our biggest rooster to an animal attack this week. We aren't sure what got him, but got him it did. Unfortunately, L found the remains of his face in some grass and was horribly upset. We moved the other roo in with the girls, but the kids are scared of him and he was terrorizing the hens so this weekend he has to move back to the pasture. I feel bad for him since he will be all alone and chickens are social animals, but not sorry enough to let him run off my kids and bully my egg layers.

R.I.P.     Peeps

Painless with the hens

As we know, I can't do selfies so I practiced taking a couple. Just remember that all these were taken in about 10 seconds of each other.

Not too bad

Could live with this, maybe I can do a couple of selfies

Totally nailed it!

 This why I don't do selfies! I am not even sure what happened here other than I was possessed by an evil spirit.