James Brown Hamster

Rest In Peace
James Brown Hamster
?-May 15, 2007

I couldn't sleep last night and couldn't figure out why. Then I noticed the sound of silence. There was no squeaky hamster wheel to lull me to sleep. So, I got up to check on James and found that he had passed away. We are going to hold services on Thursday. James will be buried in the woods in an area we like to go to. James was a good little hamster and always very curious... wait that's Curious George. Really though, James survived 2 moves one being a 8 hour trip. That's something. Sorry you never got to taste the sweet nectar of freedom.. except that one time you ran off right before we moved, but it's your own fault you came back. We love you James.

It's raining here today and we are BORED! Well, not so much me. I can find plenty of things to do. The kids on the other hand have decided that it is trash the room day. Which is fine except that mom spent yesterday afternoon cleaning it. That's the way it goes. I am more than willing to sacrifice mess for my own sanity.

Happy Traditional Mother's Day to all of you mothers! We celebrated on Thursday and Friday. Since I am talking about holidays I figure I will pitch our new "holiday" scheme. None. We have decided to bravely stand in the face of commercialism and not celebrate any holidays on the calender. Excluding birthdays and holidays we make up and put on there ourselves. Along with this, we do not expect gifts for anything unless it is just because you felt like it, or because YOU are celebrating a holiday of yours. I hope you will not be offended if I don't send a card or present. The way I see it, everyone celebrates holidays according to their religion or traditions, so why shouldn't we? We are not religious and in fact I think we most closely identify with Humanism. I also don't expect you to go along with our calender. I just figured we should probably give a heads up.

Don't worry we are getting used to being non-mainstream. Someone in our apartment building asked why Luke wasn't in HeadStart and I told her because I home school. Then I recognized "that look" that I hear talk about on my non-mainstream parenting board. Oh well. Maybe I am really the normal one and everyone else is weird. What's wrong with them weirdos huh?

So, it's off to try to get some outdoor time in between rain showers.