Oscar

If you saw this bowl a few days ago, you probably would have thrown up, which is what I about did when I was cleaning it out. While I was getting ready for church, Josh poured half of the container of food in the bowl. I was feeling pretty miserable that day so it didn't get cleaned out until Monday. Somehow Oscar survived. He's a pretty resilient fish. Every time I clean out the bowl I consider not putting Oscar back in it. But then I think of Laura. He's actually Lia's fish that she got for her birthday last year, but Laura has adopted him. She includes him in almost all of the family portraits she draws and when she's telling people who's in our family, Oscar's always on the list. She even said one of the stockings hanging on our stairs is his (I guess that leaves either me or Nate out). So, he stays... for now. But, you have to be quiet around him if he's not swimming because as Josh said the other day, "he's sleeping, don't wake him up."