1 FISH, 2 FISH, RED FISH, DEAD FISH

 HERE'S MY SWEET BABIES THIS MORNING BEFORE CHURCH. 

LAST TUESDAY MORNING CARTER WOKE UP AND HIS EYE WAS MADDED UP AND WELL HE ENDED UP HAVING PINK EYE. WE GOT SOME ANTIBIOTIC DROPS TO PUT IN THEM AND IT FINALLY WENT AWAY. WELL JAYCIE WOKE UP THIS MORNING AND THE FIRST THING OUT OF HER SWEET MOUTH WAS "MOMMY MY EYE HURTS" SURE ENOUGH SHE HAS IT NOW! SO THE DROPS GO IN HER EYES AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL GET RID OF IT BEFORE ANYONE ELSE GETS IT! SO NEEDLESS TO SAY GENE AND JAYCIE SKIPPED CHURCH THIS MORNING SO WE WOUDNT GIVE IT TO ANY OF THE OTHER KIDS AT CHURCH AND THEY WENT TO WALMART AND THEN MET US FOR LUNCH AT OLYMPIC!

NOW, ON TO OUR FISH STORY. WE HAVE BEEN PROMISING THE KIDS A FISH FOR PROBABLY A YEAR NOW. IVE JUST BEEN TRYING TO HOLD OFF AS LONG AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THAT WOULD JUST BE ONE MORE THING I HAVE TO FEED AND TAKE CARE OF. WELL CARTER HAS BEEN REALLY ASKING HER LATELY SO WE TOLD HIM YESTERDAY MORNING THAT IF HE DID REALLY GOOD AT HIS SOCCER GAME THEN WE WOULD GO STRAIGHT TO THE PET STORE AND GET HIM A FISH AFTER THE GAME. WELL HE GOT OUT THERE AND DID HIS ABSOLUTE BEST AT HIS LAST SOCCER GAME SO STRAIGHT TO THE PET STORE WE HEADED! CARTER PICKED A GOLDFISH AND JAYCIE GOT A WHITE GOLDFISH. WE BROUGHT THEM HOME AND SET UP THEIR FISH BOWL AND WE DECIDED TO KEEP IT ON THE KITCHEN TABLE FOR A LIL WHILE SO THEY COULD WATCH THEM. WELL I WAS IN THE KITCHEN NOT PAYING TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO THE KIDS AND FISH WHEN CARTER STARTS YELLING THAT JAYCIE JUST POURED HER ORANGE SODA IN WITH THE FISH. SURE ENOUGH SHE THOUGHT THEY NEEDED A DRINK. SO FRANTICALLY I GOT THE FISH OUT AND CLEANED THEIR BOWL OUT AND STUCK THEM BACK IN. WELL AT DINNER SHE DECIDED THEY WERE HUNGRY AND FED THEM HER CORN. SO ONCE AGAIN I HAVE TO CLEAN THE TANK OUT. SO THIS MORNING WHEN I WENT TO CHECK ON THEM IN CARTER'S ROOM, JAYCIE'S WHITE FISH WAS JUST FLOATING. GREAT, A DEAD FISH IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS! NOT LOOKING GOOD. LEAVE IT TO MY DAUGHTER TO KILL A FISH THAT QUICK. IVE ALREADY COME TO CONCLUSION THAT JAYCIE WILL NEVER BE PICKED TO BRING THE CLASS PET HOME FOR THE WEEKEND. LOL! ANYWAY, WE TOLD THE KIDS THAT THE FISH WAS JUST SLEEPING UNDER THE ROCKS FOR NOW AND GENE'S GOING TO GO TRY TO GET A NEW FISH SOMETIME SOON. IM JUST GLAD IT WAS JAYCIE'S FISH FLOATING THIS MORNING AND NOT CARTER'S. HE HAS A VERY SENSITIVE HEART LIKE MINE AND HE WOULD HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD AT ALL!

WE HOPE EVERYONE HAS A WONDERFUL MEMORIAL DAY SPENT WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY!