PSERENDIPITY

I would never have willingly left my home to go to the pet store and bring home a goldfish.  Sure, we’ve been in PetSmart and Aidan has oo’ed and aah’ed over the cute little fish.  But we always left them there. 

How, then, did we end up with a goldfish, you ask?  Well, on Friday when I went to pick Aidan up from school, he ran up to me at full speed yelling “Mama!  Look at Tiny!  My fishie!”  I’m like “Whaaa?’  and I look at the teacher, who hangs her head and gives me one of those “it wasn’t my fault” looks. 

Me:  “Um, Ms. Crystal, how did Aidan get a goldfish?”
Ms. Crystal: They gave them all one.
Me: Who is they? Whose idea was it to send Aidan home with a living creature that I have to feed and house?
Ms. Crystal: Umm…you know….the director.
Me: **take a deep breath cause Aidan is standing here smiling holding this fish in this ziploc bag** Okay. I see.

And I got in the car and called Tim and asked him to please go buy Tiny a home and some food, because she would be traveling with us to Memphis.  I tried my level best to let Tiny live in Memphis at Daaaaddy’s house, but Daaaaddy wasn’t having it.  He’d much rather the fish die on my watch.   

And now we have Tiny.  Amazingly, she lived through a trip to and from Memphis and is still kicking swimming.  We thought she’d surely be flushed by weekend’s end.  Perhaps she’ll be with us for a while, she seems to be hard to kill (Wait!  Not that we were trying to kill her, but this is us.  Even Aidan woke up every morning and asked “Is Tiny still alive?”  Miraculously, she is.) .

So, say hi to Tiny everybody!