Bringing a family member home....

Oh...I'll probably be thought a retard after this post, so, I suppose a retard I shall be.

When we moved to our apartment 2 years ago, I gave my parakeet to my daughters. This was my Sunshine bird (cuz she is yellow, y'all), she was also my birdy bitch..she came by the nickname honestly.

Well, just after Christmas this year, my girls, thier grandmother and I took the girls shopping with the gift cards they received from family members. We decided to go to Petland, Sierra was curious about getting some fish. Well, I was standing at the bird cages, and this parakeet caught my eye...just this one out of a cage of like 20 of them. I was being stared at...or, watched anyway...lol

So, I said...hell with it, I am buying that bird. And I did. Was blue, therefore I named her Sky.

Recently, she passed away. She was fine before I went to bed. When I woke up the next morning to check her food and water, she was on the bottom of the cage. Sigh..even tho I had only had her for just shy of 7 mos. It devastated me. She had become part of the family. I am sure that when I told people about it, they were thinking...its just a damn bird...well...I did too, to an extent. I couldn't believe that this sweet, skitzy sky blue bird would have that kind of an impact on me. But it did.

Remember I said that I have given my Sunshine bird to my girls. Well this bird is tough y'all....even tho she has been out of my home for the past 2 years she is still part of the family. My daughters now have a cat a piece. The cats are about 6 mos old...the bird however is anchient...or, well if you counted her age in dog years she is...lol, this bird is about 11 years old...she has been a part of my family for 5 years. She was owned by a friends mother who had her for at least 5 years, her daughter owned the bird before that for I am not sure how long.

Here is why Sunshine is coming back home with me. Yesterday morning my youngest daughter calls me before school. As she does every morning. After her ritual greeting, she says..."Guess what Smoky did this morning mom!" (Her cat) I said "What's that hun?" "She tried to eat Sunshine!" Oh! I think she thought it was a little bit amusing, until she told me how the cat came about trying to eat the bird.

Now you have to understand that the bird cage is at the top of an entertainment center that stands between 5 and 6 feet tall. This lil cat somehow found a way up to the cage, figured out how to get her nose under the door of the cage, and had her body halfway in the cage trying to get Sunshine. I can now understand how it made my daughter giggle. That had to have been hilarious to catch the cat halfway inside the cage trying to eat the bird.

Needless to say, I don't want to lose another bird, so I asked the her if she wanted me to bring Sunshine back home to Momma's. She asked her Grandma first, and Grandma said that was between myself and the girls, so, both the girls agreed that I would bring her home.

So when I go out there today, I will be bringing her back. Will be nice to have a little noise in the house other than the a/c and tv.