Irony...

Well, here is a funny and ironic story about our lives...at least we think it’s ironic!  Before we moved to Shanghai, as most of y’all know, we lived in the middle of the US in a small little Midwestern town where we actually lived just on the edge of the city limits and yet we passed two farms on the way to get to our house! :)  While living in this great small town, we lived on a 1 acre lot with tons of green space everywhere to run and play on.  The girls always wanted to have a pet but with 3 kids, adding something else to take care of was not high on my list of priorities...at all!  So we never had a pet even though we were asked constantly.

Now, guess what happens, we decide to move to the 3rd largest city in the world where we are blessed to actually live in a house but it has a tiny garden in the back that is literally about 10 feet wide by about 40 feet long.  But, hey, we are thrilled to actually have a little bit of green space.  So anyway, one day our whole family is at a flower market getting petunias to spruce up said backyard when we come across cages and cages of very cute little bunnies.  Well, you can imagine what happened next and in a moment of either sheer stupidity or sheer “you are the best parents ever” we said yes to the purchase of  bunnies!  So on that day, we came home with 2 very cute Lionfaced Lop bunnies that the girls absolutely adore!    I, of course, came home and had to read up on what all bunnies eat and what you do with them and most importantly if they carry awful diseases that will kill us.  Much to everyone’s delight (especially mine!) they carry no serious diseases and are quite easy to care for.  And turns out they are actually a very fun little pet!

John spent the next weekend building a house for them in the backyard and we put up a lot of chicken wire type fencing around their house so they have some green space to enjoy which is quite funny really because we live in quite a nice neighborhood and I’m sure our Chinese neighbors behind us think we are crazy!   But, actually, I’m pretty sure they already thought that so no great new revelation for them!

So I’ve included a picture of our newest additions...by the way, their names are Clover and Flower!  And yes, they are two girls! :)