"We Planted Stevie!"

I apologize for the lack of posting on the blog lately.....life happens. We are sad to report that we experienced an unexpected death in our family. Stevie, our pet gold fish, passed away the end of June. Apparently, he had been suffering from depression or just had the sudden urge to end it all. We will probably never know. Just for the record, I never liked this fish. Brooklyne "bought" him from a school program where 5th graders "sell" items to 1st graders with "money" they have earned. Brooklyne brought Stevie home in February of 2008. Did I mention I never liked him? I was the one who fed Stevie and even changed his water and cleaned his bowl. That is probably why I was so ticked when he left us the day after I changed his water! Anyway, I was getting ready to make dinner and didn't see him in the fish bowl. I climbed on the counter to look down on the bowl in case the angle was making it hard to see the dang fish. I couldn't see him and asked if anyone had taken Stevie out? (I'm not sure why I asked NO ONE else takes care of the fish) Aaron said he had just seen Stevie swimming around a few minutes earlier. We started looking in the window box and on the ledge. Aaron found him in the bottom of our sink laying there lifeless. Aaron ran Stevie under some cool water and gave him some type of fish medical care. Stevie floated for about 15 minutes and then took a few breaths! He managed to slowly come back! (Seriously, I never liked this fish and obviously he knew it) Stevie started swimming around at about half us usual rate. He would swim a bit and then float on his side. I thought he was probably not going to make it. Aaron wanted Stevie to fight and told him to do so. Brooklyne was heart broken and told Stevie to keep swimming, she knew he could do it. Long story short, Aaron decided to see if Stevie would make it over night. Around 6 the next morning Aaron said Stevie was alive and well. (Crap! This fish hates me!) We came down and there was Stevie swimming like a champ! This was his last ditch effort. Sadly, (for everyone else) Stevie was found floating on the bottom of his bowl around 9 am and never swam again. He saw the light and swam to it. Aaron and Brooklyne insisted we hold a ceremony for this fish!?! We buried him in the back yard and Jojo sang "My Heavenly Father Loves Me", Brooklyne laid him to rest, Aaron said the prayer, and I shared my less than deep love for Stevie. A few days later we were talking with a neighbor and Jojo shared that "We planted Stevie!" I guess we did.