Friday, January 3

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Some friends of ours from the city came with their 7 year old daughter to visit. I was a little nervous about what they would think about me having a wild-caught mouse as a pet, but they were nice about it.

They seemed to like our home, and they visited with the goats and ponies. They brought us a cool cat grass grower for the kitties, a cat toy, and a bottle of champagne as Christmas gifts, and it was so thoughtful. We had some pottery that they threw at the studio last Christmas, that we trimmed and glazed for them.

We went for a walk at the park down the road, and brought seeds for the chickadees. They were very interested in eating from our hands today, and their daughter was enchanted by them. It was pretty wonderful.

They left in the afternoon, and that left us lots of time to invite other friends over to play boards games that evening. These friends are the guy who worked on our house with us all summer, and his wife. It was nice to connect with them and just have fun.

I think this friend thought I was a bit nuts for having a pet mouse, but then I think she warmed up to the idea after watching Thistle in his habitat for a while. I think people forget that mice are nice little beings because we struggle with them destroying our property. We never see them up close ways where we see them playing or eating or grooming because we only see glimpses of them running away, and have been conditioned to think of them as dirty and destructive.

It had occurred to us that my husband is going back to work Sunday night, and we hadn't spent any time with our friends over the holidays, so we needed to connect with them.