Day 17 - Moments

30 Days of Thanks

Day 17 - I am thankful for the surprising little moments that life delivers to you.

Sometimes life delivers little moments on a silver tea tray all nice and pretty and ready to be enjoyed.  Other times life hands you moments and you can do nothing else but scratch your head and wonder.

What The Heck?!?

For Clover's birthday this year she received a Zha-Zhu Hamster.  I documented some of the story here.  and here too.  He runs off and gets lost all the time.  My friend found him under the sink the other day when we were cleaning out the cabinets.  She was quite surprised.

I was also surprised this evening when Clover found him.  I wasn't sure where he ran off too.  Even more surprising was when she had one...in each hand.

What?

I'm not exactly sure what happened here but he is multiplying.  Literally.

The one with the key is ours.  I have absolutely NO IDEA where the second one came from.  And why is he/she/it the same color as the other one?  I know for a fact that we only had one.  But Clover told me she found one in the play area and one in the living room.  I started texting randomly to see if anyone left it over here because that is a better excuse than magically having one extra.  At this point I am convinced that someone is just messing with me.

Thank you life for this little distracting moment but now I'm just left scratching my head.

Tales Chapter 2

Tales from the Hamster Files: Chapter 2

She brought him into the kitchen.  He was quiet.  She repeatedly pushed on the pink buttons on his back.  Then she looked at me with those big eyes.  She was sad.

"Mommy...He wont work.  He's broken."

At this point I was conflicted.  It is true that I am not the hamsters biggest fan.  I am convinced that it is indeed payback from my sister in law for the doll that I got my niece a few years back.  I imagine my Sis in law in the toy isle cackling out a maniacal evil laugh as onlookers snicker because they know she has found a "payback" gift.

I could have told my darling Clover that the batteries died or that he wasn't feeling well.  But looking into her big sad eyes I just couldn't lie to her.

I laid him on the surgical table and put on my mask and gloves.  I reached for my scalpel.  And when I say scalpel, I mean screwdriver.  I opened him up and searched in the junk drawer for 2 Triple A's.  Everyone has a junk drawer.  You know that drawer that catches everything you can't find a place for.  Lots of batteries and randomness that you just can't seem to get rid of for some reason.  Maybe a ketchup or soy sauce packet or two.  Always under an counter top appliance so that you can reference that appliance when people are looking for something that may be in the drawer.  Ours is under the coffee pot.

Upon further inspection it was obvious that the batteries just needed to be reseated.  They must have fallen out during one of the hamsters many falls.

All in the universe is restored as she runs down the hallway with her hamster for their next great adventure.