I am so in love with the weather we have been having the past few days! It is perfect. I feel like we kinda missed out on a spring this year, so I am glad that we are having a little pre taste of fall. Fall is my favorite...uh....what are those called? No really. See what having four kids does to your brain? SEASON! Fall is my favorite season. Wow Allyson. Can't remember what a season is. Right now I am sitting at the computer in front of an open window with a fantastically cool breeze blowing in on me. I LOVE it!
Steve has this extra special talent and he has passed it along to some of our children. He can catch a fly. With his bare hands. He catches them all the time. Disgusting, I know. Well, apparently fly catching can be an...uh...WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY BRAIN??? I probably should not be typing anything right now. Inherited trait. Sigh...I really think half of my brain has been sucked out of my head. Anyhoo. Aubrey and Zac also have this fantastically disgusting talent. I don't know why I just told you that.
So we have had this chicken who has been brooding all week. She will not come out of the coop for anything and she is sitting on all the eggs. Poor gal. I really tried to reason with her and get her to come out. You see, we have no daddy rooster. And with no daddy rooster, no matter how long she sits atop those eggs, ain't no baby chickens gonna come poppin' outta there. I tried for days to get her to come out, but every time I got close to her, she puffed herself up and started hissing at me. I was scared. So finally, when I had used my last egg from the fridge, I knew I had to get that girl offa those eggs. I turned to Aubrey, our chicken whisperer. She helped me (she isn't scared of the chickens) and it was so sad. It made me feel like a horrible person. That chicken did not wanna give up those eggs. I felt like I was ripping a mother away from her children that she was never going to see again. Aubrey held and stroked and comforted the poor gal for a while.
My mom and sister and sister-in-law were over at our house eating the other night. We made pancakes and hash browns and scrambled eggs. I put my secret ingredient in the eggs. Yellow crookneck squash. OK, so I know what you are thinking right now. DISGUSTING! But you are so, so wrong. It is dang good. I put the eggs and the squash in the blender and bend it all up. It makes the eggs so light and fluffy and moist. And they are good. Ask any of my kids (except Zac who refuses to even try them). They love 'em that way. So we were sitting at the table eating and my mom tried the eggs. She said, "I am so pleasantly surprised by these eggs! They are so good!" Listen. That's what my kids say. Only they say "This is surprisingly good!" Why is everyone so surprised? It's not surprisingly good. It's expectantly good. Everything I make is EXPECTANTLY good. Except those muffins I made last week for Steve and Zac to take to their home teaching families. I realized after they had been delivered that I doubled everything in the recipe except the zucchini. They were not good, and I am so embarrassed.
My kids and I have this new addiction. So last week while they were at school, I stumbled upon this video on youtube. It was hilarious. I was laughing so hard I was crying. And my Mo-dar instantly told me they Mormons too. I could not wait for the kids to get home so I could show them. I started telling them that it was this video made by brothers and they are acting out stories about when they were growing up, but their kids are telling the stories. My kids were like, "Oh yeah, Kid History! We love those!" Then they started quoting parts of it to me. Anyhoo, we have watched them a million times and we don't let anyone leave our house without showing them a Kid History video. So you can't leave my blog without watching one either! Click here to watch. You know what you have a sweet tooth means? I doesn't mean that you like candy, IT MEANS THAT YOU WANT SOME!!!
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