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[Chicken Rustler]

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All our kids are saying...AWWwwwwww, how cuuuuutteeee!
Glad to hear your back is getting better even if it seems slow. But the alternative is just not an option sooooooo you need to be good! You know you have friends!

ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, Right?!!!!

I may be doing some hatchin soon. Been bit. By the hactching bug.

I got a call from an anonymous part of the anonymous work crew and they are coming outin the am to split the last of the wood that I have here. They sure are nice people.

ANYTHING ANYTIME !!!!

 

[Ogress]

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Relax and enjoy your time together. Is the daycare neaby your work? Were you able to arrange for a grandma to care for her?

 

[Ogress]

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How much roughly does a 1/4 of a beef cut/wrapped go for these days? If available I may be interested.

I think $400-$500 or so....depending on where it's from. That includes the kill fee, too. We just got 1/2 a beef and a whole pig, too.

Thank God we paid for it last year!

That is about what I pay, and thankfully the bill is guesstimated and paid in installments so by the time I go to the butcher, I need only pay the last $100.

I need recipes though. I know how to cook fish, but beef and pork and I'm clueless unless it is ground. I ended up feeding my dogs tri-tip and top sirloin just before bicking up my quarter last year. I heard I made an awesome roast at Christmas, but I did not really care for it myself.

Now I have porkchops to learn how to cook as well.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Relax and enjoy your time together. Is the daycare neaby your work? Were you able to arrange for a grandma to care for her?

She's actually going to be with a neighbor of ours...who is only about 1 mile down the road from our house. Too far away to come home at lunch and snuggle her.

It's a lady...in her 40s....two grown children....so Audrey would be one-on-one....which is nice....

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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I'm so sorry

I had to go back to work when my DS was two months old. I was not ready, but was laid off at six months pg so had to take a great job when it came along. I still cried every day for the first week or so - but it got more bearable. I hope it does for you too.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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Oh - they are both beautiful

Love those fuzzy cheeks!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I think $400-$500 or so....depending on where it's from. That includes the kill fee, too. We just got 1/2 a beef and a whole pig, too.

Thank God we paid for it last year!

That is about what I pay, and thankfully the bill is guesstimated and paid in installments so by the time I go to the butcher, I need only pay the last $100.

I need recipes though. I know how to cook fish, but beef and pork and I'm clueless unless it is ground. I ended up feeding my dogs tri-tip and top sirloin just before bicking up my quarter last year. I heard I made an awesome roast at Christmas, but I did not really care for it myself.

Now I have porkchops to learn how to cook as well.

OH man....I'll hook ya up with some....we just had the most amazing chops the other night!

The recipe sounds gross but it was SOOOO good....

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Whatcha gonna hatch??!?? Hmmmmmmmmmmm?????

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I'm so sorry

I had to go back to work when my DS was two months old. I was not ready, but was laid off at six months pg so had to take a great job when it came along. I still cried every day for the first week or so - but it got more bearable. I hope it does for you too.

Yeah I break down every time I even THINK about it.

I know next Tuesday is going to be a killer at work.

Especially since I'll have 10,000 questions (including where is she now).

 

[Ogress]

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Relax and enjoy your time together. Is the daycare neaby your work? Were you able to arrange for a grandma to care for her?

She's actually going to be with a neighbor of ours...who is only about 1 mile down the road from our house. Too far away to come home at lunch and snuggle her.

It's a lady...in her 40s....two grown children....so Audrey would be one-on-one....which is nice....

That sounds really good, and won't spoil relationships with inlaws. I love seeing all your photos, Audrey is such a hppy baby. Alex was like that - he's still usually pretty happy. You are doing a great job Mom!

I was going to go back after Alex was born, but I could not get myself to do it. I felt rotten for going back and rotten for staying home - my last day at work before maternity leave, I was called into the HR office for a confidential meeting and was told that there were going to be lay-offs just before Christmas; nearly 1/3 of the company. They wanted to know if I was planning on returning because if I was going to leave anyways, they could put me on the lay-off list and save someone else's job. I thought they were pulling my leg. They were not. (The correct question to ask would have been "will there be a severence package for me if I say 'Yes'?") I felt terrible for a while, but then so many people left after the lay-off because the morale at the place plummeted.