Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

Bird Funeral Today

May 19, 2011

I was on the computer reading my email this afternoon when Maggie and Becky came running up to me saying there was a dead bird in the yard. I yelled at the boys not to touch it and went out to see. The poor bird hadn’t been dead long – perhaps a day – and I have to say I felt saddened. It is a living thing created by God after all and deserves our care. Joe dug a hole to put the body in and, when he was done, Steve carefully took our little trowel, scooped up the bird, and carefully laid it in its grave. The girls got mixed up on their songs and it sounded like they were singing “The Wedding March” so I came to the rescue and hummed proper funeral music. After Joe filled the grave in, Maggie put some sticks as a marker on it. I went back to the house feeling sad for the loss of a bird, but glad that my children see this cycle of life and death as natural – which is as it should be.

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On May 19, 2011 at 11:42 PM, dxprog said:

Funny how the wedding march is not appropriate at a funeral, but the funeral march is plenty appropriate at a wedding...

On May 20, 2011 at 12:21 AM, java_queen said:

HEHEHEHE! Your dad suggested singing "Yesterday" by the Beatles at our wedding :-).

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