Monday, August 25, 2014

glo fish

I have a lot of bad parenting ideas.  Letting Grace have pets is one of them.  Yet over and over again....
Our latest acquisition is glo fish.  They are pretty cool and glowy but like all aquariums they are not as easy to take care of as you would think.  I had an aquarium adventure years ago when the big girls were little girls and we killed everything until we got plain old gold fish.  I told Grace this sordid tale before getting the tank but she, of course, thought she would do better.  And in 3 days we have had 2 deaths and now we have some murky water.  These guys are no where near as hardy as Fluffy the kitchen counter dwelling beta.

Also the gerbils, while super cute are sometimes a bit stinky.

Tonight when we found fish number two stuck to the filter Lu cried.  She is tired and shocked to have to do homework for the first time, after school we had an orthodontist appointment and soccer practice and chef shoes to buy so despite my wish to put her to bed early it was well after 8 when we started for bed and found the corpse.

decluttering is going well, as is Rob's exercise resolve.

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