Not Measles

Well it seems that it wasn't measles that Alex had but actually a really light case of Chicken Pox. It was such a light case that it didn't seem possible to be Chicken Pox but it was confirmed by a nurse and it makes much more sense. Let's just hope he isn't like his daddy and his Aunt Angela and get the Chicken Pox repeatedly. If it had not happened to my own children I would never believe that someone could get it over and over but they sure did. Some times a really light case and other times they broke out horribly. It is all frosted over outside and we have had lots of freezing rain but no snow to speak of. I am hoping that as a Christmas gift to us this year that we get a good snow fall by Christmas Day. I guess it doesn't really matter, the day will come and there will be enough snow to go out and build a snowman and build a snow fort and pull Alex around on his sled. Drew and Frances bought him a really nice one a month or so ago. They wanted to be ready when it did finally snow. Not much going on here, same old same old. We have so many, many requests for eggs. One of the Sheriff's from Clay work came by the other day and bought 3 dozen. It is the first time that we sold any. We were just giving them away, to friends and neighbors. This spring we will get another 25 chicks and once they start laying then we will have a regular income from the eggs. We already have people who want to commit to a certain number of dozens a week. We get from 10-12 eggs a day. We finally got a HUGE egg the other day and it had a double yolk. I think the egg selling will be Frances' job and it will give her some extra spending money. She really babies and looks after the chickens so much. We are all excited and getting the plans ready for a HUGE garden and getting our goats and 2 feeder pigs this coming spring. Hopefully we will be eating pretty much what we grow. All looking forward to this coming year.