Shhh… Don’t tell Colleen, but I just bought a book from Amazon called, “Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock”.  The kids and I went over to one of Violet’s friend’s houses yesterday and bought some chicken eggs.  They house 7 chickens in the big area in their backyard.  They get about 6 – 7 eggs a day.  Their daughter sells the eggs for $3 a dozen.

I’ve been buying eggs from the Farmer’s Market for $5.50 a dozen this season.  $5.50 a dozen is a stupidly obnoxious price.  $3, I can deal with.  But, even better, after the initial cost is paid for is not paying for eggs at all.  We’ve got an acre yard, we can afford to use some of that space for chickens.

It’s my goal for the summer, build a chicken coop.  That goal trumps the building a shed goal of earlier, which trumped the finish the attic goal from even earlier.

Violet starts kindergarten tomorrow.  Can you believe that this day has finally come?  It seems like only yesterday Violet was born and I went to see Bruce Springsteen (the tickets were like $150, like I wasn’t going to go?).  So, yeah, she’ll go to school with the country folk out here.  We don’t quite consider ourselves country folk, guess we probably should.  I’ve got a garden and we’re talking about a chicken coop.  At least I don’t go out shooting guns with my son or something crazy like that.  Speaking of my son, POTTY-TRAINED!  It was fairly easy after we finally got around to doing it.  Way to rock the Toy Story 3 tighty-whitey’s Mason!

Just so you know, I think this “blog” is going in a different direction. It’s not going to be so much about the kids anymore. I think the time has come to change focus. I hope you don’t mind too much. Those of you interested in the kids, I will still send email pictures…

It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since my life has changed completely. It is pretty amazing creating a life. It is pretty amazing watching that life grow.