Andrea- I can tell you that it gets better on the other side. We started adding pets after we already had kids (4 thus far), and I have gotten mostly admiring and positive comments regarding opening our household to more species. We most recently added a baby cockatiel to our family, adopted in honor of Debi's Mercy :) The other kids in the neighborhood love coming to see the bunnies, fish and now the bird, and my DH's cousin visited yesterday with 8 of his 10 kids (yeah, I know, wow) and said how great it was that we had all the pets in the house. All ya gotta do is have the kids, and your circle of acquaintances will expand, and you'll probably get a whole different view of your Zoo :)
Healing wishes for your boo-boos, btw. Andrea and Toki and Osker and 3 fish and a bird (still nameless) and, oh yeah, 4 kiddos. Andrea Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was so annoyed yesterday when Matt's family--particularly an >uncle--picked on us for having the pets. Rick asked if our house smells >like a barn, and I told him it didn't (and Matt concurred). Then he said >how could it not with all those animals! Grrr. Unfortunately it wasn't >until we were pulling out of the driveway that I thought of the perfect >response: "Doesn't your house smell like children? How could it not, you >have so many of them!" They have four kids. I was really mad and upset >about the whole thing, and because people are asking me about getting rid >of the pets when we start having human children in a year or two. Matt >finally told me that I shouldn't put too much stock in what comments people >make, particularly Rick, and that we know our lives and they don't. That >made me feel a lot better. Too bad my mind was working too slow to smack >Rick around--we'll see how things go at Christmas (although Rick and family >will be in Florida, so I won't have to deal with that contingent). > >Anyway, enough rant. > >Andrea Z and the Z Zoo > >Andrea M. Zander, >Information Development Team Lead, >IBM TSC--HDD, 507-286-6525/Rochester, Minnesota > >"It's these little things, they can pull you under. >Live your life filled with joy and wonder." --Sweetness Follows, R.E.M. > >"I am invincible as long as I'm alive."--No Such Thing, John Mayer > __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
