DailySusan Humor Blog

THIS HOUSEHOLD'S HOPPIN'

Maddy can’t wait for her big sister to come home for Easter and meet her new guinea pig, Fluffy. She was chattering away about how big our family has gotten. I was wondering if she was including boyfriends and extended family.

But noooooo. People are slowly becoming the minority around here. We are now a family of 10: six humans; one yellow Lab on perpetual happy pills; two fat and lazy barn cats, TiGrr and Louie, and now a pudgy, cuddly rodent not likely to do any tricks, but at least she stays put.

One of Maddy’s favorite birthday gifts was a frog habitat from one of her homies, Hunter. She is to send in a card to order a tadpole for it when warmer temperatures are reliable. That’s so that we don’t have a “frogberg” DOA in the mail. So we will have a pet frog soon, too.

Maddy wasn’t satisfied. “We need one more ‘aminal,’” she said. “How about a GRASSHOPPER?”

Yumpin’ Yiminy! No wonder it seems like a three-ring circus around here. . . .