One more family moment.
We are successfully distracting ourselves by looking at photos.
I wrote notes next to most of the photos and this one made us laugh.
We needed a laugh.
The grandkids wanted chickens so chickens we got. The youngest named them and felt like they were his personal pets. I remembered that he gave them nontraditional names. This one was Ratchet.
The first thing he would ask when he got to our house was if he could go outside and soft the chickens. Who could deny him.
Here he is softing a chicken.
Our lives have been blessed.
@NorcalGma2 Ratchet! I love it. When I was in grade school, my neighbor's younger brother named his kitten "Apple-swim."
@NorcalGma2
Such wonderful stories/memories. 💚
@NorcalGma2 Love going through shoeboxes of old photos.
@JamesNielsen
There are boxes of photos in a closet upstairs..
I created photo albums for each of the boys. The photos cover from birth until 18. Every birthday, trip, triathlon, holiday, newspaper clippings, county fair ribbons and ticket stub is between the pages. Now they show the books to friends and each other. I am sure they will each take their books home someday.

@NorcalGma2

I had a pet chicken when I was that age too! A banty rooster

There's a photo of me toddling with the chicken in my arms

I still remember what it felt like to hold him by wrapping my tiny arms around him. How the wings felt like a flexible cage, with an air gap between them and the rest of his body

@NorcalGma2 He looks like he's being so gentle and sweet...
@cfmccarthy
He is still a kind gentle human.
@NorcalGma2 You reminded me of a favorite photo of my late mom and my oldest grandchild.
@ted_duffield
So sweet. Softing a chicken. ❤️