Mama and her babies

I've been trying to get a shot of this little family all week.

Last weekend I noticed after throwing some toast crusts outside- a little sparrow pick up some and fly up to the fence where, sitting and waiting were 4 little birds. She flew up and fed them what she had gathered, going back to get more again and again.

Throughout the week i have been throwing a couple of handfuls of bird seed that we give our budgie so this mama can feed her littlies.

The mama is the one in the bottom picture with brown markings. Her babies are the 4 plump fluffy ones who always stay up on the fence, though I have seen them fly they never come down to the ground.

I really wished today was Friday, we're all tired. Kids are tired from school so they're coming home moody and uncooperative. I'm tired from trying to soothe the moody beasts while trying to get my errands done and today I just couldn't be bothered. I just couldn't muster the energy to do anything but make a couple of sensory activities for the boys to do when they got home in hopes they might be calmer ( they were for a while).

Marley brought home a lot of his artwork from school and his books. I love my boys arty things i have them all stored in a container that is my one keepsake along with a shoe box with hair from first haircuts, a couple of Kanyes baby teeth, they're hospital bracelets things like that, things that are precious to me that are significant to their beginnings and they're journey here so far.