Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[sparkles2307]

It's $80 a month for my two to eat Lunch every day at school. Breakfast is cheap, they only like cold cereal (bulk bags) or frozen pancakes.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

The kids take lunch to school. Please, with tweenaged boys, a teenaged girl and a teenaged boy, they would eat enough at lunch to burn the entire months grocery budget in a week.

I will say with WIC's help, what we already have processed and all that - we are making the grocery budget to about $700 a month. That's for 2 infants on formula/breast milk, 8 kids who happily eat us out of house and home, DH, MIL and myself who is still pumping my milk away. We're also low on what we have processed on hand due to the move, so next winter, we'll hopefully get that back down to the nice $500 region I prefer.

Hrm, other than that.....

Grant has lovely raging ear infection, sinus infection, strep throat and walking pneumonia. Which is why he feels like sleeping 22 hours a day. He got new antibiotics and other medications. I got a smoothie down him and his pills, he's now asleep again.

 

[sparkles2307]

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Poor Grant!

Our neighbor kid is named Grant. I have to say he rivals my own children for cuteness in my book. He is my DS#2's "twin"... look SO much alike, act alike, almost same size, but a year apart.

I think we spend like, $40 a week on groceries. But we only have 7 and 6 yo boys and the two of us to feed, and we have a cow, a pig, a sheep, and 2 deer for meat.... and I can tomatoes till I'm blue in the face, and store all our potatoes and onions (meat, potatoes, and onions are the main ingredients in all our meals) our expense is $200 a week in gas to get to and from work.

 

[Orchid]

I was wondering if Grant might not have walking pneumonia when you said how much he has been sleeping - that was my first clue when DS#1 had walking pneumonia. He never slept that much before or since! Poor guy, I hope the meds work fast for him.

He must feel like death with all that going on!

DH and I will be working on the chicken coop after dark tonight. Sigh. The weekends just are not long enough.

 

[sparkles2307]

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I'm the laziest chicken owner on earth.

Really.

I might toss down a new bale of straw, but its pretty warm in there already.

And the chooks are still free ranging till the snow flies anyway.

 

[Orchid]

We have no meat of our own. We spend like $140 a week on groceries, it is painful. I am going to start clipping coupons and planning our meals around what's on sale starting this week. I am tired of all my money going for food! Not that I don't like to eat, but it's getting ridiculous.

A friend of ours offered to raise us a beef if we pay for feed next year. I'm thinking about it, but not sure the feed won't be as much as store beef? However for the health benefits of knowing what went into it and knowing it had a better life than a feed lot steer, it might still be worth it. And I am planning on meat birds since sparkles so kindly told me about the place in DL that processes them.

 

[Orchid]

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I'm the laziest chicken owner on earth.

Really.

I might toss down a new bale of straw, but its pretty warm in there already.

And the chooks are still free ranging till the snow flies anyway.

We're building a new coop inside one end of the horse shed so the two coops can be combined into one. This year's chickens are still in their makeshift open-air coop, now handily wrapped with plastic by yours truly.

I am a rather lacksidaisical chicken owner as well, but this is downright ridiculous!

 

[sparkles2307]

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We're butchering a feeder steer soon, you can buy half

 

[sparkles2307]

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I'm the laziest chicken owner on earth.

Really.

I might toss down a new bale of straw, but its pretty warm in there already.

And the chooks are still free ranging till the snow flies anyway.

We're building a new coop inside one end of the horse shed so the two coops can be combined into one. This year's chickens are still in their makeshift open-air coop, now handily wrapped with plastic by yours truly.

I am a rather lacksidaisical chicken owner as well, but this is downright ridiculous!

Really?

Do you just google grossly underused words?

 

[Orchid]

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We're building a new coop inside one end of the horse shed so the two coops can be combined into one. This year's chickens are still in their makeshift open-air coop, now handily wrapped with plastic by yours truly.

I am a rather lacksidaisical chicken owner as well, but this is downright ridiculous!

Really?

Do you just google grossly underused words?

No, I'm just a big fat nerd who reads too much.