I planned to give an update on everyone’s health sooner, but I allowed myself to get busy and not get around to blogging these past couple of days. Even now I should be sleeping, but had to tell this story first.
On our way to feed the horses and gather the eggs for our neighbors, Joshua was all excited. He said, “Maybe the rooster will attack me this time. ” Thursday, I had taken Ruth by herself and Joshua offered to stay behind and help watch Jonathan, who was sick. When we got back Ruth told Joshua about the rooster attacking her. Thankfully it hit her boot and not directly on her leg. Joshua was intrigued for some reason by her story and was saying that he wanted the rooster to attack him today. I told him, “Joshua, you better be careful what you ask for. You might just get it.” Joshua wasn’t too concerned and for some reason I knew he would get attacked. I wasn’t worried about it though, I figured he might learn a valuable lesson.
Sure enough, the main rooster was in no mood to be trifled with. I had to use a shovel to get into the chicken pen. The rooster attacked the shovel three times before I could get in to throw the feed to it. The feed I threw out was the only thing that kept him from attacking the shovel a 4th time. Now if I hadn’t had that shovel that would have been my leg attacked that many times. I thought Joshua would have been less excited when he saw that, but it only seemed to excite him more. He said, “Wow, I saw his neck feathers get all raised!” The rooster finally left the pen while I gathered the eggs. I turned and saw him challenging Joshua. Or was it Joshua challenging the rooster, it was hard to tell. Joshua was trying to scare the rooster away from him but was only angering him all the more. So the rooster attacked him, and I heard Joshua say, “Ow! Hey!” The reason for these exclamations were because he expected the rooster to quit after he showed the rooster that he wasn’t scared. So he wound up running from the rooster. Meanwhile, Hannah is in a panic over every chicken in the yard. I had her standing safely out of the way but she was still in a panic. I explained that it was only the rooster, she had to watch out for but in her mind every chicken was the same. So I armed her with a stick and told her to hold the stick and the chickens would leave her alone.
After we fed the horses we called the chickens all back to their pen. This time Joshua was a little more respectful of the rooster’s position in the yard.
Now for a health update. Scott, is feeling quite a bit better, except for some congestion that hasn’t completely left him yet. Jonathan was feeling better by Friday evening. Hannah just has a tired look, but never ran much fever. Ruth threw up Saturday morning, and that evening was running 103 degree fever. I gave her some medicine and sent her to bed. Then Saturday night before bedtime, Joshua was running a fever as well, his was 102 degrees.
Sadly, I think we will be missing church Sunday morning. This will be the first service for me to miss, since Jonathan was born. He was born on a Sunday morning. I don’t remember missing a Sunday, since. We will see tomorrow how everyone is feeling. I just don’t want the kids to get everyone at church sick and I don’t want to leave them by themselves while they aren’t feeling well. I plan on having them rest and do a small devotional lesson with them. I may even let them watch St. John in Exile performed by Dean Jones. I’m hoping they start feeling better soon. So far, thankfully, I have not gotten sick yet. I told Scott that a mother can’t afford to get sick. I have no intention of getting sick if I can at all help it. Of course, if Scott realized how late I’m staying up in order to write all these thoughts down, he might think I were asking for it. So I better be careful what I ask for and get some sleep, so that I not get sick myself.
I’ll try to write more tomorrow.
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