Family Expansion and New Eggs!

Last week I hinted that our family had expanded, which initiated a few emails from family and friends --> Are you pregnant?!  The answer to that is a big no as Todd seems to feel he's too old for more and we're done.  Sniff.

But.  We did get a new pet!  One of our Tae Kwon Do friends mentioned to Todd a few weeks ago that his neighbor had an old ferret in need of a better home.  Since Todd shared that with me, I considered that to be consent and promptly brought this boy home.  Meet Ernie.

It has been four years since we have had a ferret in the house.  Our last one was Sammy and she was 8 years old when she passed.  Todd and I vowed to wait until the kids were grown before we took in ferrets again because the passing is just so hard.  But this one needed a good home.  He was old and sick and not getting any attention.  Ernie was extremely underweight (to the point that I could easily see his ribs through his skin) and very dehydrated.  The vet visit last week confirmed adrenal disease (which I expected with his bald tail.  adrenal disease is very common with ferrets and we fought it with many of our other ferrets in years past), his dehydration was gone (yay!) and that he has neurological problems which are disabling him from walking normally (his back end gives out on him).  She said she didn't expect him to walk normally or be able to climb again.  I felt so defeated.

But last night, I found Ernie trying to climb.  He didn't make it into the hanging hammock just above his head.  But he tried and that made me happy.  And this morning, I heard him making noise and when I walked around to see him....he had climbed up to the first level in his cage.  Rock on, Ernie!

This weekend went extremely fast (I can't remember the last time we had a slow weekend, but maybe this coming Memorial Day weekend will be since the kids will be spending time with each of my parents Saturday - Monday).  We spent many hours cleaning up and straightening the house and doing laundry.  A karate festival was in there (complete with a dunk tank where they made sure that the kids got to dunk the instructors, even if their pitch wasn't strong enough to make it happen), a soccer banquet and a get together with friends (which included a walk down to the creek and a cookout).  I also squooshed in time to make 20 new eggs.  :)

I will be making more this week (I hope!) so I can have multiple sets to throw into the shop for the next update.