D DAY!

KB got a little goldfish and a little bowl for her year end school party. She was so excited she would just sit and watch her little fishy swim.   Swifty came home and reminded me how cruel  that was to the animal, fish need bigger bowls with lids and circulating water etc.  I said lets just let it live there for awhile.  We wake up the next day to celebrate our first full day of summer to greet a dead fish.  KB was heart broken so. . .  We had a funeral in the bathroom for fishy our beloved fish we had for all of a day, and then  I did what any logical, loving parent would do.  I took her to the pet store and got her a new $.15 fish.  I gave her a small little talk about not sticking fingers in the bowl or moving it around etc.  So with our new fish and new ground rules we were happy, except for our little bouts of still missing our original goldfish.  Fast forward a few hours, Swifty comes home and we tell him about our day.  He looked at me and said You Bought her Another Fish?!  I asked what he would have done, and the matter was dropped.  Around dinner time KB decided she was ready to name her fish so she marched right up to the bowl looked in to see what her fish looked like to find a DEAD fish!!!!!  Needless to say we had another funeral in the bathroom only this time KB was crying uncontrollably and the irony of 2 dead fish in one day non of which was in our possession long enough to be loved and attached to could bring on such uncontrollable sadness hit me like a brick and the LAUGHTER wouldn't stop.  Luckily it was so hard I had tears and could sort of pass it off as crying.   The irony must have hit Swifty because at about the same time he began to LAUGH so hard he wept too.  KB is truly heart broken over her two dead fish and her parents feel very bad that we laughed at a funeral.   The greatest part is that KB kept saying it was her fault because fish can't live in little bowls, I did not want her to blame her self so I said KB we did not know it would die that's when she confessed and told me all of her classmates had already died!!!