We are now into the make up snow days. Kids and teachers alike are ready for summer, so it's field trip, party, and activity overload around here. The Cooper pet parade was this morning and the children were begging to participate.
Only a mother will chase down a chicken at 6:45am, put it in a pet carrier and take it to school. And when the chicken freaks out and poops all over itself in the crate, only the love of a mother is enough to take the hen out, clean her up, then wrap her in a towel and carry her around the parade so 500 children can pet her. Reese followed behind and gave everyone that touched nugget a squirt of hand sanitizer.
There were cats, dogs, bunnies, guinea pigs, ferrets, and bearded dragon lizards, but Nugget was the only chicken! She was a big hit. I was surprised how many kids recognized her as a barred rock, and how many Bella vista kids said they, too, have backyard chickens.
It was an adventure. We finished just in time for Reese to join up with the 4th graders for the Kona ice truck, then I met Aaron and sent Sloane with him for her doctor appointment, came home to feed Soren lunch, return Nugget to the coop, clean the chicken poop out of the pet carrier, throw a load of wash in, then go back to the school to check kids out an hour early for a dentist appointment. Now I'm siting in the
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