What we now call "The hamster situation"

As you all know I have no adorable little children to speak of so I have to resort to telling you A LOT about my hamsters. It's actually quite funny in a way. Our family prayers now go a little something like this


"Dear Heavenly Father, Thanks for this beautiful day... blah blah blah and please bless us with "The hamster situation..." and so on and so forth.

Saturday Night and All day Sunday was spent looking all over the upstairs because Royal had made "The Great Escape" from his makeshift cage (cardboard box) After having to find him about six times we decided it was time to get new cages.

For family home evening tonight we went to PetSmart and purchased two more cages and separated them into either
A. Female Hamsters from 2nd and third batch that get along
B.Original Male hamster father (Royal) and his male babies
C. Other male hamster (Carl) and HIS male babies
D. Original Mother hamster (Margot) and her 4, 1 week old babies fourth batch(don't touch)
E Other mother hamster (possibly prego) and her 2 baby females
F. Last but not least the hamster (whom we call "Chica") the female hamster who doesn't get along with anyone but the humans of course.

So as you can see, a little out of control.
No, Micaela, we will NOT flush them down the toilet! They are not FISH!

Dad was quoted tonight saying "I must have grown soft in my years" I think he has, what other dad would let his children even KEEP hamsters in his home. Thanks Dad! You know you love them too.

Mom is forever the worrying mother, even for these little things. She's great because she's always making sure they are "Warm Enough, Have enough food, Is that little one stuck? are they being mean to that one? Are you sure it's a girl? I think that one is pregnant!"

Anyway, although this will be one of those situations that we all laugh about later on in life (and laugh about even now, at least me) It is to the point of insanity. I have posted on craigslist and plan to ask every single one of Thomas' little friends. We've even given some away but we still have more!

Thanks all for listening. Hope you enjoyed that little story :)

Behold! The many cages, minus one

Here I am holding one from batch #3
adorable!