Thanks Christina!
Okay, so to tell you guys about my weekend. It was strange but it was good.
Yesterday, my husband went to play a disc golf tournament, I took my son to my mom to get his hair cut. I bought her breakfast from Earthfare the organic grocery store next to my moms shop. It was really good AND I got my favorite chapstick! I'm so happy I picked some up! haha.
Well, I texted my MIL to ask her if she wanted my son for a few hours. She said yes, so I told her I was going to the grocery store then I would drop him off. I went to the store, but because the carts were outside they were all wet from the rain, so I decided to just go to my MIL and go to the store later because I didn't want my son to sit in a wet cart.
I took him over there and she asked if I wanted to go run errands together, she needed some things too. So we went to get dog food for my dog that they now have. Then we went to petsmart to get dog bowls, then to lunch. Then to look at two houses that are for sale that we're looking at. Then we went to k-mart to get my son some stuff, she wanted to get him some coloring stuff. And finally we went to the grocery store. SHE PAID FOR MY GROCERIES! I could not believe it. I didn't want her to, but she wouldn't take no for an answer. We got back in the car and I told her that she didn't have to do that, that we can afford to eat! haha. Duh. But she said that when her and my FIL had just gotten married, her MIL would come over and they would go to the grocery store and her MIL would pay for her groceries. She said at first she was a little put off by it, then she figured out that it was kind of nice. She said that she always wanted to do that for her DIL. I thought it was a little strange, but I guess it was pretty nice. That was $100 worth of groceries that we didn't have to pay for, so that was a little nice. But in the store, I wasn't very happy. No one ever does anything like that for us, his parents RARELY help us with anything. We don't ask for anything, but the times my husband has asked, he gets a big ol' no. haha.
Well, I just put a tarp over the chicken coop to stop the snow and rain from coming in the top. I also put a heat lamp in the house for Hen. Poor thing, her comb and wattles look so pale and I think this has taken a major toll on her. Last year when she came out of the house from brooding her last clutch, she weighed like 5 lbs. She's supposed to weigh 10. It takes a lot of out them not eating all the time. I think that she will weigh less than she did last year, this time because its so cold out. Its like 30*F today. Thats cold for us! It really sucks! I hate it. It was 60* on Friday, then it snowed yesterday, so thankfully the snow didn't stick to the roads and its almost all melted now.
Okay, now for an Ellie update. I think she has gotten bigger. But she is making me nuts. I had to put some squares of velvet under her litter boxes because she's pooping outside the box. So the blankets are easier to clean up. I swear, there is hay everywhere! And me, like an idiot I swept up her corner, threw a box away, mopped got the pee spots up. Then refilled the litter boxes with litter and hay, spilled hay all over the clean floor and all over the washing machine.
But its so much nicer when her area is clean! haha. I love it, too bad she drags all kinds of stuff around and messes it all right back up.
She only poops outside the box when I'm not fast enough with the litter changes, she gets upset with me and punishes me for being slow! Brat!
