Today Rachel came over and did what we Jewish guinea pigs call a "mizvah" which is a good deed. People do not have to be Jewish to do mitzvot (plural for mitzvah) but, it being Friday and all, we're feeling all Shabbos-y and stuff.
Also, mom just received her family tree and learned what her real last name is and where her family is ACTUALLY from and all kind of stuff, so she's feeling all Jewish-y, too:
"Mednitsky, originally from Belarus." Bela-WHAT? Med-a-WHAT-WHAT?! ya sure, mom?
"YumYum" is sooo much easier! Hey, please keep the name they gave your Papa on Ellis Island
and i promise not to tell any of our readers that your grandparents were cousins: PROMISE!
Rachel is our social worker who comes and looks after mom because mom never tells anyone when she needs help and Rachel knows that; so she comes to check on us on a regular basis. Rachel is Wise: Today, mom not so good. Me, neither.
Raj and Taj Mahal are helpful; just that the sun came out this morning and Bear so enjoyed sprawling his big, beaver self on his special flannel platform in the sun..he'd stretch out his long feet and deformed toenails and luxuriate like he was in a SunSpa for guinea pigs whose feet were deformed because no one ever cut his toenails and they curled in on his feet but he never complained, just did his sunning in quiet gratitude...Neither Bear nor PandaPig EVER COMPLAINED of anything and it's one reason we never realized how ill they were...mom and i both cried.
Sun came to say hello to Bear, but no Bear to say hello to sun.
me sad, mom sad: we both sad. not Raj and Taj, though, they discovered fresh lettuce and carrots this morning, so...
Way Happy Mahals!
Rachel helped mom unpack the last unopened box that the vet sent home with us. It was PandaPig's bedding and Bear's special "sunning-platform flannel" - mom just fell completely apart. Since they both had cancer, mom doesn't think it is a good idea for us to re-use those items, but the real reason is every time she sees them, she falls apart and the woman has GOT to pull herself together
EVENTUALLY because we have to MOVE IN A FEW WEEKS AND SHE NEEDS TO GET CRACKIN' ON THE PACKIN' but we are all taking time to grieve and have faith that time will extend itself and we will receive Special Time Dispensation for Grief.
Whatever that means. It's metaphysical. Whatever THAT means. I'm just babbling, because I saw their things today, too.
BACK TO RACHEL'S MITZVAH: Rachel kindly took PandaPig and Bear's personal belongings and dispensed them LOVINGLY for us with the following prayer she made up:
"GOD BLESS PANDA AND BEAR
HAPPY PIGS IN CHANA'S CARE."
now i'm crying again. we can't express the agony of their being gone from our daily lives. and i'm just YumYum.
Special Thank You to Rachel for her Shabbos Mitzvah. Mom had to recycle all their "play boxes" with their names written on them and decorated like little houses yesterday. She just couldn't do today what Rachel mercifully did for us. It was too much.
But the good news is that mom found her earplugs and slept (sort of, with bouts of sadness waking her, and meditation and prayer throughout the night and day) through Raj and Taj Mahal's "NIGHT OF MADNESS!" and i just sat on my sleeping bag loft and watched them play and chase each other through their big Pigloo and scurry so madly about that they re-scattered all the litter mom had picked up off the floor before bed, which is now back on the floor again. them some crazy-pigs!
hey, y'all
it's YumYum saying "Good Shabbos: Peace Out!"
and thank you, Rachel, for everything
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