Tis' the season to be busy...

I hardly know what day of the week it is right now, let alone put aside time for blogging. As much as I hate to say it, I'm going to have to take a mid-holiday break from expressing my feelings through written words. I love blogging, I love it so much, but sometimes it's extremely overwhelming -- especially when I have a million things to do and worry about.

The Christmas week will soon be approaching, whether we like it or not. Part of me is so ready for it, part of me isn't, and then there's part of me that wishes is was already in the past. Between having to worry about my moms court appearance this Friday, long work days this week, countless cage sets to be sewn, having a house and glider room to clean, my aunt and uncles thing at church this coming Sunday (same day as my birthday), getting my license renewed BEFORE the 20th, and a million other things, there is just NO TIME!

In my free time I honestly don't want to be on the computer, I want to be planning things, cutting fleece, sewing, reading my Walking Dead comics. taking pictures -- which I hardly do anymore, what's up with that?! It's time for a break. This will probably be my last post until after Christmas, which is going to such and make me sad. I don't like getting behind on my blogs, but I also hate blogging about nothing, or SEWING! Dear Gods, there are only so many things to be said about sewing and cage sets. You've seen one, you've seen them all.

I will leave you with the latest happenings around the house. One of the most exciting things is pertaining to our gliders -- Ellie and Oliver were mating Saturday! How exciting! Not what we originally planned on doing, letting them mate, I mean, but it happened so they're officially a couple now.

With that being said, we're thinking about re-homing Agnes. We don't have a spare cage for her and her dad is still intact, so that's really our only option. We're also thinking about letting Evie live with Doug and Kyan. She's a monster, to be honest. She barks constantly and doesn't like us at all, so it makes sense.

I know I haven't really mentioned this much, if at all, but I'm up to 500 followers on my Instagram page! Super exciting, something I didn't expect at all! Most people have like 2500 followers or more with their glider pages -- not sure if those are paid followers or now, who knows. I'm slowly making my way to 1000, hopefully I'll be there sooner than later.

I also applied for a Paypal debit card, for which I got approved. Excited about that as well.

Not super exciting updates, but it's something. I'm honestly not sure what else to say, so I guess I'll leave it at that... for now. ;) Until next time...

Happy Holidays!

-Megan

Pictures from Saturday:

Ginny's eyes are just gorgeous -- I'd like to add that she'll be separated from them within the next couple weeks. :(

Oliver and Ellie in the act.

Chloe is such a chub.

Norman looks like a little mouse here.

So many white faces in this cage.

We made another no-bake eclair cake. Yum!

Pictures from Sunday:

Love hanging cards! It always looks so festive.

This is an edit I did for my Instagram account.

Pictures from today:

Such an adorable set, right?

Love the lake..

Speaking of Instagram, I hit 500 followers on my Sugar Exotics page!!

No Bake Eclair Cake = Deliciousness!

Okay, that Eclair cake turned out WAY better than I ever imagined! It's like seriously one of the easiest and tastiest things ever, and that's saying a lot. We see recipes online or on Facebook all the time, but never execute them this well -- this if we try them at all! Most of the time we're like, "Oh wow, we need to try that!" and then we never do. I don't know why we went through with this one.

The ducklings got to play in the bath for the first time today. We tested them last night with a little water in the sink, of course they loved it. We figured they were big enough today for an actual bath. We kept the water high enough for them to get their feet wet and clean themselves, but not too high. We don't want them to exhaust themselves.

As they get older, we'll deepen the water. Unfortunately, I wont get to play with them anymore until Monday. I have a very strenuous work weekend on the horizon and wont have time for much else. Gotta love those 9 hour shifts!

Unfortunately, I don't have anything else to blog about today. I know, a blog of cake and ducklings -- how exciting!

Love & Peace

-Megan

Just look at that gorgeous and simple Eclair cake.

I don't know if Eclair cakes are baked to begin with, so I call it no bake Eclair cake. I could be wrong.

Now time for ducklings!!

Drying off:

Tie me kangaroo down, sport...

I honestly don't see how it's the first day of May already. After all, we don't live on the East coast, we should be experiencing 70+ degree weather already! Not that I'm complaining, though, I love the cold weather. If it were up to me, I would live in Alaska.

I'll probably be complaining next week when the weather is rumored to be in the 80s. Shutter!

I know I don't normally talk about movies anymore. Well, I guess I do if they're worth talking about -- which this one is, so no worries! It's Wolf Creek 2. Yes, I know, they made a sequel! I was as surprised as you are right now, especially since there were no previews for it. Well, word of advise... watch it! It's so, so good, just don't read any of the reviews for it before you do. They all tell you to steer clear, which I don't understand. One review in particular said that what they didn't like about it was because "the gore wasn't there". Did you not watch the same version I did? Maybe you watched the director's cut? There's WAY more gore in this one, which makes for some very memorable parts. So yes, watch it!

In completely random, but I must get off of my chest news... our turkey, Lilith, is brooding! Which is awesome news, because she's also laying now! We've decided to let her brood away in hopes of hatching out a couple little turkeys late this month. Since our rogue hen goose is also laying, we decided to steal about 6 of her eggs and hide them all under Lilith, who is more than happy to sit on. Now lets just hope everyone hatches!!

Another random subject, but LaVaughn and I attempted an Eclair Cake a short while ago. It's quite simple, actually, but that's mainly because it's not an actual Eclair, it's a cheater version. All it calls for is: pudding, whipped topping, graham crackers, and an icing that you must make yourself. You can find the recipe for it HERE, among others. We'll know more about it tomorrow, when we actually get a chance to taste it. The only downside to this cake is that it has to sit in the fridge overnight. Boo!

Oh yeah, I almost forgot! I managed to get new pictures of ALL the joeys a little while ago. They're kind of spur of the moment pictures, so don't expect greatness. They are cute, though, and most of the joeys did awesome in posing for me.

Speaking of joeys, Chloe has been letting her little BOYS hang out quite a bit lately. They just need a tad more fur until they're ready to detach, which should be no later than next week. We for sure have a leu and a plat. He doesn't appear to be a TPM, so just a regular little plat this time around. I'm excited.

Well I believe I've said enough. It's time to go feed the gliders and give the ducks a bath. Not a big bath, just one in the sink. I'll be sure to edit this blog and add pictures at the end.

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here's a little preview of Chloe's plat boy:

Declan in all of his radiance:

I so love that face!

He's so cute!

Miss Fiona and all of her cuteness:

This picture is just to die for!!

Mr. Neal and all of his glory:

Ugh, that face!

Eep! This one is so cute!!

Mr. Fili:

Mr. Kili:

Here are a few pictures of the Eclair cake:

The top layer of graham crackers.

Some of the mess.

Drizzling the chocolate top.

The finished product.

Updated with pictures of the ducklings bath!!