the baby died

Well we still have the rabbits we bought a couple of posts ago... and a few more : )
the idea is to have them ready to go right before Easter. The last litter that was born was the mom's first litter. My husband found them half frozen and brought them all in. There were 8 kits (baby bunnies) then 5 then 3 then just one who was hanging in there and doing fairly well. I was trying to get mom to feed her and then mommy rabbit "dried up" and I was nursing her along "bottle" feeding her a few times a day and trying to keep her warm. She did well at first but just started loosing her strength when she couldn't get anything from mommy bunny. She was so little just starting to get some fuzz and fit right in the palm of my hand. Then this last Monday when I went to feed her before work, I didn't have to cause she was dead. I knew that would probably happen and had tried to not get attached but that didn't really work. Needless to say I started my day out pretty depressed and it was a long hard day. : (

sleaping together

I never had my own room till I was about 8 or 9 and my little sister and I used to fight like cats and dogs about everything involved with sharing a room. Who had to turn out the light as I remember was a key battle in the war every night. Then when older siblings moved out and we finally got our own rooms ... guess what happened... we slept in each others rooms! My poor parents... at least they didn't have to get out of bed themselves to referee the light switch game but they were stunned. We did love each other and missed having someone there and we could choose so it was "my idea" and "home rules applied" so that solved the fights you didn't like it... go to your own room.
I think of that though when the girls who have always had separate rooms want to sleep together in the same bed. I am stunned because both of them are very "active" sleepers. But they seem to make it through the night with out beating each other up.
It also is funny that 6yr old slept with mommy and daddy until she was about 2 1/2 and 2yr old couldn't because she has always snored so bad and been such a fidgety sleeper that no one slept is now at 2 1/2 starting to demand to sleep with mommy and daddy that she can get out of her bed and come to ours.

no ballet today

6yr old missed her first ballet class in 2 yrs. : (
She woke up throwing up. She was supposed to have a friend come over and play after class and was trying her very best to feal better!
With tears in the background on my end I had to call her friend and tell her 6yr old was sick. She did continue to "spill it" as she used to call it so the tough decision was a good call.
Not to worry to much she's feeling much better and has her same little attitude back.

grocery shopping as a family outing?

Well, we needed to go grocery shopping (after Hubby and I went shopping for dress clothes to fit me a good part of the day as a date how exciting for him?) and the kids were hungry. S0 instead of waiting we loaded everyone in the car and headed to McD's first -to save time and make it so the 6 year old would want to come- and that went pretty well. Of course there was some coercing to get the kids meals eaten. Then off to Weis for some groceries. We haven't bought that many groceries at once in a LONG time. We ended up with two carts and trying to keep the kids contained in the "car" part in the front of one cart. We managed to keep track of both of them and get the groceries paid for -everything on our list plus not too many extra items- without too much fighting, although a bedtime trip to the grocery store probably isn't the best family date in the world.