So at Dawn, I just sat outside the pen and listened, not wanting to interrupt important bonding time. I only heard soft contented cheeps and a mama’s soft cluck cluck cluck so was going to leave it at that, but DD had to peek before leaving for camp: Susan sitting on the nest hiding her babies. I came back a little later to check on things. All my worry was for naught! Not only are Susan and babies thrilled with each other, but Susan must have heard that they were hungry, because the new family had relocated within the nesting pen to the feeder. Susan decided that her time of fasting is done, and she’s chowing down next to her chicks. I brought the Nutridrench browned waterer and Susan was fine with me messing with her space; the babies ran over to my fingers after our little bonding time this morning. So stinking cute!!! I’m so glad that we didn’t try again to break her when the hatch failed!
Yaaaay!!! I'm so happy for you, your daughter, and Susan! 
They're precious!
At the orientation yesterday, the professor forcefully told us and the kids that he despises their phones, so if he saw a phone anywhere, he would smash it with a hammer! Meanwhile, I was trying to squeeze my sick cat into a specialist’s appointment at our vet school. Ya know, avoiding the front desk (2 weeks for an appointment!) and calling in favors to get my cat seen sooner... So I had to keep ducking into empty hallways to return calls so my phone wasn’t made an example of! Other parents were doing the same - we are at least as bad as our kids! Lol.
