#team ginger

“I feel kind of guilty eating cake like this, when Cal just . . .”

“Cal would want us to eat cake. Oooh, we should toast him.”

“Good idea, bro. Forks up!”

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Hm... 🤨

I haven’t posted for about a month! The truth is, it doesn’t feel the same anymore. I don’t have my 2 girlies or my cranky boy. However, I am so so grateful to still have Albert with me. Those 4 were my original 4, and even though I shouldn’t have favorites, having that ‘group’ of hamsters was an amazing time in my life. Things feel different now. I’ve got Happy that I can hold if I want to put up with some nibbles. I’ve got Albert that I can hold but he doesn’t enjoy it very much (yes! Albert is tame!) Then I have Pie. I haven’t managed to build a bond with him at all and it saddens me to say it but he doesn’t feel like my hamster. He is very cute but he just doesn’t feel like mine. Then I have Ginger and Ocean that aren’t mine, but I feel more connected to them than I do Pie which makes me feel bad.

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I miss Cloud splatting down on my hand and shoving all the food she could into her pouches. I miss Cactus running up and down my arms and firing food from her pouches all over the carpet, and sitting waiting for me to pick her up. I miss Bear glaring at me from across the room and screaming if I did something he didn’t like. I miss the days where I wasn’t checking on Albert and thinking ‘is today the day...’

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