Do you want the good or the bad? Lets start with the good shall we, as clearly the above photo is fluffy and that is normally cute right? If you can’t tell, Petal and Stitch have two baby twin Joeys. One is a girl, and loud! The other is a boy and more content. They are about a week OFP – Out of Pouch now. Eyes are not open yet, but soon.
We had a scare for a few days and thought the Joeys where being in danger of being rejected but I think things are good now. We had to scramble though to get a joey rejection kit together just in case. We should have been better prepared. Many of us tend to have the “never happen to me” mentality until suddenly it happens. So now we are ready.
I love sugar gliders and after years and years I think Petal is close to being a tame glider. She seems to have little fear, hasn’t nipped me in a long while and jumps all over me. I can’t manage to clip her nails however and having the Joeys means she is running less on the nail file wheel. It was so painful when she climbed all over me tonight. I wanted her to stay in her pouch and I would give her treats as the Joeys where nursing but she would not have that, she dragged them out and I think it made her dig into me even more to handle the extra weight. Cage was getting cleaned and they are in the travel cage in the above photo. Please please please know that sugar gliders need a very large cage. We have one large enough for 2 gliders but no more so these Joeys will either need new homes in a few months or we will need to get a larger cage, like a flight cage! For 2 gliders a cage needs to be at least 2′ deep by 3′ wide and 3 feet high. Think huge parrot cage but the bars need to be 1/2″ apart not the common 1″ apart most parrot cages have. Hard to find and costly.
So that is my happy fluffy news. I will try and get better photos another night.
The bad news. I am sick. Oh my word was I sick today. I will not get into details because it was one of those days. I thought I was just under the weather but this afternoon it was so much worse. My poor kids made me a lap full of get well cards even. No park day this afternoon to say the least and NaNo even had me forget my oldest had a homeschool class, not that I could have gotten her to it in the shape I was in. I hardly managed cuddle time with the kids and some homeschooling and then helping with the gliders tonight. Still not ok. This needs to let up already. I managed my word count today, a tiny bit at a time. I think thats the worst of being sick like this, that I am inspired and want to write but can’t focus, feel so badly. Writing this is taking me forever even. So the bad is that I am sick and I have this big worry it will not be over by morning. Medications are not helping. If this gets worse…. forget my word count, nothing will get done. Thank goodness the weekend is coming and DH can pick up the slack. He is flat out amazing. I so adore him. Married 13 years and I still dream of him, still watch him in wonder at how lucky I am. You know he just keeps getting more handsome with age, so not fair! LOL
Ok I am rambling. I hope if your writing NaNo that your feeling much better than I am that your word count is better than mine though at least I am not behind yet!
Day 3: Word count met, not ahead, not behind.
