Tuesday, June 9, 2009

RIP Jasmine

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Today, I came home to the dreaded sight of a dead fish. I thought about disposing of Jasmine's body secretly without telling the girls and even having Brannon go to PetSmart tomorrow to by the replacement.


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We made Jasmine a casket. We placed Jasmine carefully into said casket and taped it up very well. We then put a bow on it for decoration.








Next, we went outside and dug a hole.






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This was "Brooklyn's" fish - so she got to pick the spot where we buried Jasmine and then got to place the casket in the grave.



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And then we moved one our flowers and put it on the grave. A little bit later on tonight, Brooklyn told me (totally unprompted) that we had buried her fish by the "bitch"! {I use the word because she does not mean it in a bad context}. She quickly corrected herself by saying "by the ditch, the ditch"...

1 comment:

Pauline said...

This is such a GREAT post, Beth! Teaching the kids about death in this simplest of manner! And what a GRAND casket that was!