One down, one to go!

Tragedy struck our house on Friday of last week. I mentioned in the last post that Shay had been sick so we both stayed home all day. As I was cleaning the house I picked up Shays Hamster cage to clean all around it and noticed that sparky wasn't moving. I'll be honest, I was hoping that this would happen soon and we could just be done with them. But when I saw Sparky just laying there my heart dropped. I knew Shay would be devastated and I wasn't ready to tell her. I sat the cage back down and prayed she wouldn't notice until Tyler got home to deal with it. I wasn't about to deal with the dead rodent body and I didn't want Shay to see it and know that is was laying there dead all day. Tyler called shortly after to let me know he would be home a little later then expected. Oh Great! That is not what I wanted to hear. I told him what happened and he said he thought he knew of a way to deal with it.

6:00 Tyler finally got home. He went down stairs to talk to her and she started crying right away. She cried so hard. So hard. The can't catch your breath type crying. And I felt awful. She looked at me with the saddest little face and asked me if Sparky would be happy in Hamster heaven. Then Britton got all teary eyed and asked her if she wanted to help him take care of his Hamster. I was fighting back the tears big time.

I don't like the hamsters. I think they are gross, but I can't stand to see my kids so upset. This is the first experience we have had with the death of a pet. My heart can't take it.

I had to go to the grocery store so we all went together. We told Shay that she could pick out a little prize to make her feel better. She chose a yo-yo! How symbolic. That's just how my emotions were feeling. So happy to get rid of the dang thing and yet so sad for my little girl.