Monday, May 05, 2008
A Bird A Friend A Funeral
Yesterday my three kids found a newborn baby bird, just hatched, right on our front porch. Since it was lying helpless on the ground, they decided they needed to recue it and promtly made it a home complete with interior design that looked like a Hilton Hotel for Feathered Friends. Next they took turns, loving, praying over and making comfortable the helpless bird that probably had a broken neck. They begged us to keep the bird as a pet and named him "Trooper Woods." Since Trooper was still half dead, or um, sleeping when they went to bed, they gave Todd and I the task of babysitting the bird until they could continue their mothering the next morning. As we headed off to bed we heard the bird sqweeking hysterically for food. It's little beak was quivering up and down and he was so helpless. That is when Todd said to me: "Honey, we need to kill this bird so the kids don't see it die and it won't suffer anymore." I promtly said:"No, death is a life lesson for kids and they need to see if they can help this bird or not." What was I thinking?! I went to the cupboard and mashed up a cracker to give to Trooper while Todd laughed hysterically that I was feeding the bird the eqivilant of prime rib to a newborn. He dared me the chew up a worm and feed it to him but we couldn't find any worms. I am always up for a dare. Since we were failing miserably we tried to give it some water and decided that it was probably best to take him outside. We figured that his mother was probably out looking for food like in the book "Are You My Mother?" and would be home soon. We also went to bed and hoped that God might perform some great miracle of salvation, or at least the bird didn't die on our watch. Not to be! We were woken up by three bawling children, a dead bird and a funeral invitation. Trooper had passed on from this wonderful life and we had to sit through a funeral (about 1/2 hour) and burial for the bird. Trooper, we want to thank you for coming into our lives. You were truly um, sweet, and little and quite loud when unhappy. We hope you will Rest In Peace. Sincerely, The Woods Family
A Bird A Friend A Funeral
Yesterday my three kids found a newborn baby bird, just hatched, right on our front porch. Since it was lying helpless on the ground, they decided they needed to recue it and promtly made it a home complete with interior design that looked like a Hilton Hotel for Feathered Friends. Next they took turns, loving, praying over and making comfortable the helpless bird that probably had a broken neck. They begged us to keep the bird as a pet and named him "Trooper Woods." Since Trooper was still half dead, or um, sleeping when they went to bed, they gave Todd and I the task of babysitting the bird until they could continue their mothering the next morning. As we headed off to bed we heard the bird sqweeking hysterically for food. It's little beak was quivering up and down and he was so helpless. That is when Todd said to me: "Honey, we need to kill this bird so the kids don't see it die and it won't suffer anymore." I promtly said:"No, death is a life lesson for kids and they need to see if they can help this bird or not." What was I thinking?! I went to the cupboard and mashed up a cracker to give to Trooper while Todd laughed hysterically that I was feeding the bird the eqivilant of prime rib to a newborn. He dared me the chew up a worm and feed it to him but we couldn't find any worms. I am always up for a dare. Since we were failing miserably we tried to give it some water and decided that it was probably best to take him outside. We figured that his mother was probably out looking for food like in the book "Are You My Mother?" and would be home soon. We also went to bed and hoped that God might perform some great miracle of salvation, or at least the bird didn't die on our watch. Not to be! We were woken up by three bawling children, a dead bird and a funeral invitation. Trooper had passed on from this wonderful life and we had to sit through a funeral (about 1/2 hour) and burial for the bird. Trooper, we want to thank you for coming into our lives. You were truly um, sweet, and little and quite loud when unhappy. We hope you will Rest In Peace. Sincerely, The Woods Family
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