Dear Aiden and Eli,
Daddy and I need to apologize. Being parents is hard. In this case, we apologize for lying to you. We felt with you boys being three and five, you don't quite need to learn about death yet. Your fish, Junk, was very sick, which we told you about. His belly was very, very bloated and his scales were all raised up. In doing research, we discovered that we wouldn't be able to help Junk. His bacterial infection had gone too far. We decided to use the movie Nemo to help us in avoiding the discussion about death. We took Junk out of his tank, into a small bowl with his water so you could say goodbye. We told you that we were going to put him in the toliet so that he could be with his family, just like in Nemo. That all things flow back to the ocean. This is where we lied. He didn't go back to the ocean. We didn't want him to suffer any longer, and we didn't know how else to make it easier on you boys (and us).
We are very sorry.
Love,
Mommy and Daddy
(Linking up today at Pour Your Heart Out: http://thingsicantsay.com/2013/07/pour-your-heart-out-no-place-like-home.html)
2 comments:
I agree, being a parent is hard! We have flushed a few fish ourselves. Who knows for sure where they go from here?
Sandy
Oh, that is so hard to deal with!
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