I can't believe you DID that and I'm going to SCREAM about it!

[33yardbirds]

Welllllll, do you like someone busting in on you when your in the bathroom ?

 

[ND]

Meh-- I have three kids with a wide spread in ages. (15, 7, 2)

I haven't known what it's like to NOT have someone busting in on me in the bathroom for 15 years and counting...
If I manage to get the door locked when there's not a child/toddler on my heels... the youngest tries to talk and scream UNDER the door at me...

Nothing like seeing little fingers trying to rip their way in under the bottom of the door...

MAYBE if I started ba-GAWKING every time, they'd STOP!

Sure makes me hesitate to open the nest box if I don't see that BO in the run!

Could at least be entertaining to try it...

 

[Justuschicks]

LOL! I hear ya! I have 3 kids (2, 5, & 8). My youngest likes to pound on the door and yell mama! He also loves wiggling his fingers under the door. He also likes to play, "slide something back and forth under the door". Or he will just plain barge in when I am trying to close the door and will sit there playing on his potty.

Any eggs yet? I went to make cookies last night for my daughters birthday at school today, got to the eggs in the recipe and shoot! No Eggs! I ran to my coop to find only 2 eggs....the recipe called for 3. I would feel like a total schmuck going to the neighbor down the way (I live in the country) to ask for an egg. Uhhh don't you have chickens? I hear that darn rooster at 4 in the morning. Only 2 of my 5 hens are laying now that it is cold. Have lights out and all and the same 2 lay consistently. My husband told me to go squeeze one out of one of the others.

I am sure they would take that well. lol

 

[ND]

It does seem pretty sad when we can't scratch up some eggs for a recipe and there's a backyard full of chickens!

Most of mine are either too young, or on strike for the winter... so the max I get out of 21 freeloaders right now is 3 pretty small ones from the newbie pullet layers... on a good day! I'll take grouchy BO's eggs, she can tell me off all she wants if it means one more prized egg right now!

I miss 'the days' when we could make and send treats to school! We're rural, too, but not long after my first started going to school, ALL schools in this general area don't allow homemade treats to be sent for the class. (packed in a child's lunch is fine) If it's for the class, it MUST be something made and packaged at a commercial, licensed bakery. Uniform sanitary health reasons, I suppose, but it was fun for kids to help make a special treat for their class celebration. One school was 100% nut free... ANY nuts... and it's shockingly hard to find a bakery that can guarantee no nut oils or ingredients AND has separate preparation areas with no cross contamination possible of any trace nut anything. Fortunately, we don't live in that district anymore.

Happy birthday to your daughter!

 

[Justuschicks]

My kids preschool was like that and frankly I was surprised the public schools let homemade treats, but I don't mind. Yes! What is with all the nut allergies? When I was in school I don't remember so many allergies.

I am a firm believer in exposing kids to lots of animals. I hear that it cuts down on allergies when a child is exposed to various types of animals when they are young. My kids LOVE the chickens. My youngest' first animal sound was bauk bauk baaauuuk! And now he imitates the rooster as well. It has been a wonderful learning experience for all of us. They are right! Chickens are addicting.

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

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My chickens do that all the time and I find it hilarious! Even after they lay the eggs hey make that noise, or if one of their buddies is laying. Before there was an official nesting box built, I just had a platform with wood shavings on it. My dad poked his head into the coop to see where he should put the boxes and Flutter was nesting. She cussed at him, too