Ok, so much to love here. I hope someday my kids refer to me as a crazy mother with as much admiration as your description evokes.

I, too am a musician, though it's been on hold for the last 12 years, rather, it's changed to lullabies and songs about diaper changes and wiping boogers for the time being...

I grew up only like cheese on pizza and nachos (which now I don't even consider to be real cheese) to now being a huge cheese fan! Especially good raw cheese which we used to make from our own goat's milk, but also the hard cheeses! Although, I still can't be near bleu cheese. Don't know if I'll ever be able to do that...

We used to raise quail because I have one daughter with insane-crazy food allergies and the quail eggs are often tolerated well by folks who react to chicken and duck eggs! They were so fun to hard boil and we dyed them using purple cabbage and turmeric for easter and they were so fun! As for naming birds, when we first started homesteading 6 years ago, we had a rooster who we called Buddy. Didn't name him that officially, we would just talk to him, "Out of the way, Buddy!" Well, the kids started calling him that and it stuck until one day when he attacked my 8 yr old. We had Buddy soup and quesadillas that weekend. From then on we only name the rooster after villains, Darth Vader, Garmadon and Voldemort...