Relentless Mother

As usual my hope for daily accomplishment was more than there are hours in the day. Today was a busy day, what day isn't when you have three children under six. My hope was to clean the house, paint another wall in Jack's room, and spend a little one on one time with Maddie after her therapy. I actually achieved most of it with one strange delay.



My dryer wasn't working properly. This is a big problem considering that I have had the dryer for less than three months. My OCD was starting setting in that I would have to make a service call and wait for them...how long...what about my other goals for the week everything would be messed up. Then I remembered the birds nest that was in my dryer vent. A few months back we pulled a nest out of the dryer vent that was about a foot long. Unfortunately it had eggs and baby birds in it. We put the nest we pulled in a nearby tree. The mother killed them.



I felt really bad. So a few weeks ago I noticed this unrelenting mother rebuilt her nest in the dryer vent again. Today was the first day the dryer wasn't drying. When Phil came home I told him the dryer wasn't working. He was upset because he knew this would mean killing more babies. We were relieved to find the nest empty of the mother and live babies. All we found was one bad egg. Attached is a photo of the second nest.






As I typed I was reminded of a similar story my sister shared. Back in May my sister told a story about a family of rabbits, see link here. It is a good read.

A little side bar........I have two walls painted in Jack's room and will have photos to share when I am done. In trying to make his room more fun and different, I am painting each wall a different color to match a cool comforter I found. He is getting very excited. Since everyone is making a big deal about Katie going to kindergarten in about ten days I have been really talking up his new room and he is very excited.

TTFN