I read Paul’s post on our animal family, and realized I needed to talk about this, too.

I have basically been humming with my fingers in my ears about the topic, but he is right, we need to face it head on. But I believe we have some decent options.

• Birds. I am going to see if my best friend would watch them for our first few months in Mexico, or until we buy a place. I think she probably would, and since she has trouble going away for any length of time because she has a lot of birds – we could maybe make a trade and let her have a nice vacation. I think this really might work. I have always dreamed of a tropical garden where Tiko and Maya could have an outdoor aviary and really have the good life. I’m not letting go of the dream, yet. Getting them there could be a challenge, but perhaps we could even have them flown in…pet shops fly birds everywhere so who knows.

• Dogs. I believe it will be challenging sometimes to have the dogs but I can’t imagine not having them. This is probably a non-negotiable point for me. We’ll see.

-Nancy