A Christmas Budgie

     Several years ago, our first parakeet, Petey, died. He was much beloved and the house missed his chirping and chatter. This Christmas talk was circulating about getting another budgie.

    The thing is, when we were kids my brother and I got a hamster for Christmas. It was a very big surprise Christmas morning when we came down to see a cage with a new pet in it. We referred to it as the Christmas hamster. Mom debated getting another Christmas hamster, but decided a budgie would be easier to care for in the long run. Besides, she could always pawn it off on my brother and I when she got tired of it.

    And so Pax the Christmas budgie came to be!