Yah, so today is the first day of Summer Vacation.
School’s been pretty good and crazy this year. Yah…..it’s been a crazy, hectic, stressful year; but it’s also been pretty good as far as teachers and school staff being helpful and caring and understanding…….so all in all it’s ben good.
Jeremy fell in love with his classroom pet over this past schol year and has been allowed multiple times to “babysit”….”pet-sit” the class pet guinea pig, named Elliot.
His teacher decided that she didn’t want to have a class pet next year and so she asked around for a parent to take him at the end of the school year and Jeremy desperately wanted to keep him and bring him home, and so we agreed….yah, we are just a little bit crazy.
I’m not much of a pet person, and I was not entirely certain that having a guinea pig was at the top of my “things I desire” list, but it made Jeremy happy, and that is somewhere on that list and so we’ve gone forward with it.
Last night when Jon and Chris went to the Dodo’s concert, I went for dinner at my parents house. We (me and the kids) got home around 10:30pm and after I get everyone settled, I sat down to check my e-mail and I could hear Elliot moving around and then I went to bed.
About half an hour ago – I went into the kitchen to get something and when I looked into Elliot’s cage….
THE RAT IS DEAD.
Laying over on his side in the cage half in and half out of his little tube thingy that he hides in all the time, and HE’S DEAD!
Unreal! What a way to start the summer holidays. Jeremy cried and is now asking what we are going to do to replace Elliot and that’s the LAST thing that I want…..another gunea pig. I mean, we already have all the gear an food and stuff, but I don’t want a stupid furry rat in my house….no matter how “cute and adorable” they are.
Is is bad that I was a teeny, tiny bit happy that the rat died….is that bad of me….well, I really don’t care. I feel bad that it’s dead. I feel bad that Jeremy is sad, but I am not sad that the stupid thing is no longer something that we have to take care of……
I’m really hoping that it’s all uphill from here. It should be, right?
What did you do the the corpse?
Not really flushable!
You should post a pic of Elliot.
Why do you always wonder about being bad….it is not about being bad…Did I say that lots when you were growing up? “was I a bad mom”?..I think you are a GREAT MOM…. love you lots;)
okay ‘always’ it a bit much…. I got to stop over egzagerating,…..(nice spelling eh?)
So I hear you are open to dog sitting now that Elliot is gone? are you taking bookings? heh heh….
I had a “rat” (lol) when I was in junior high, and I left it outside in the sun in a glass cage and it fried. Whoops! Poor Elliot! Hope the rest of your summer goes smoothly!
remember Hoodini? the escape artist? that rat culd break out of any cage…..at least your rat never got down the heating register.uuuuuuuuuughhhhhhhh!
Any ideas for natural bug repellent?