Fish Foley
I left our children quietly carving soap at the dinning room table as I prepared our dinner. As you see from the picture, the soap is setting next to our little fish tank. I vaguely remember hearing Hudson say something about the fish being hungry. I obviously never thought it would end in this.
He explains that the fish were VERY hungry, and that is why you see the tablespoon in the fish-food.
The fish were gorging themselves on food. If fish do grow according to the amount you feed them, I should wake to find Shamu in our living room.
As I frantically try to recover the fish from suffocating on food, I absent mindedly poured them both into the same container. (People - You try to think clearly when you have the life of family pets on the line. It is clear why I never went into the medical profession.) I move about my business of cleaning out our grubby little tank when I hear a sweet angelic voice say, “But Mom they are fighting fish. Now they will have a war.” I forgot they shouldn’t be in the same container so I frantically am trying to scoop “red fish” out of the way of “blue fish” with a 1/4 measuring cup. I called my girlfriend “stat” who is well versed in such matters and she said “Be Brave and use a Dixie cup!” Note to self, “Buy a fish net.”
Chloe and Hudson hid their eyes for fear that I would squish them. Jackson calmly played legos as the rest of us were in a “code red” situation. I prayed I would not drop them down the drain, in front of little eyes. That would be tramatizing for sure. I can hear it now “Mom killed our first pet.”
“red fish” “blue fish”
Chloe rubbed my back after the episode was done and said “Good job Mom, that was a close one.”And people think stay at home, homeschooling Mom’s don’t lead an exciting life. Hillary Clinton I dare you to do any better! On the up side, we got a clean tank out of the deal, and I REALLY needed to do that.
Hope the spaghetti’s good tonight.
Too, too, too funny! I love that Jackson was just going about his business, not really into fish dramas!
Comment by kim — January 21, 2008 @ 9:16 pm
It is always a three ring circus:-)
Comment by admin — January 21, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
Lol! We had a fun fish adventure like that once. Glad to see your fish made it.
Comment by Vicki Arnold — January 22, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
GREAT POST. I’m rolling!
Hey, he could have fed the soap to the fish, which is where I thought you were going at first. =) there would have been NO hope then. Not even the dixie cup could have saved them.
You done good girl. =)
The tank looks great too.
And if they had eaten each other, my best friend Pam WASHED HER FAMILY CAT on accident IN THE WASHING MACHINE, and her 12 year old daughter found it when she changed the load.
I could have consoled you so well. =)
Comment by lora — January 23, 2008 @ 9:48 am
Hey A- I see you hung the curtains in the kitchen! Take a better pic and post it for us to see!!!
Comment by kim — January 23, 2008 @ 10:48 am
Oh Lora, I can’t believe about the cat. How disturbing.
True I am glad he didn’t feed the soap to the fish, that would of been an even bigger mess.
Kim you are a super sleuth. I will post a pic of the curtains later this week.
Comment by admin — January 24, 2008 @ 12:39 pm