It has been a very sad and emotionally tiring week with losing our baby Cedar and all those people lives lost in the bushfires.

Lily wrote this poem at school the other day and the teacher showed it to me and I had to stop from crying reading this poem.

I am honest and friendly
I wonder what my bird is doing in heaven
I hear my brother talking loudly
I want there to be more water and less fires
I am honest and friendly

I pretend to be the "hi child" guy
I feel Cedar on my shoulder
I touch my food
I worry about my cat when he goes out on the street
I cry about my beautiful bird Cedar because he died
I am honest and friendly

I understand the fires are really bad
I say that there should be no homework
I dream that my bird comes back alive
I try to talk more
I hope that soon the wars will stop
I am honest and friendly

Cedar's last few photos...
http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww166/darln3/IMG_0462.jpg

http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww166/darln3/IMG_0463.jpg

http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww166/darln3/IMG_0488.jpg

Cedar & kids at Xmas.
http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww166/darln3/IMG_0247.jpg

We are still sad and missing Cedar lots and the home is so quiet without him. Rex the cat is getting smothered with all the hugs from us and probably is loving the extra attention!

Lily is still very sad and looks at Cedar's photos alot but even went to a birthday party and sleep over yesterday.

Amber is sleeping better as she has been having nightmares and Nash is doing great as you know how 4 year olds can be!

Will be getting the kids to do a scrapbook with all Cedar's photos, a few feathers we have still got and to write little stories about Cedar in it today.

Good bye Cedar our precious baby who did steal our hearts in a very short time and we all will never forget you. Am very sorry you didnt get to live a good long life...lots and lots of love from us all ox ox
Will really miss this great forum too

Hope you all dont mind me sticking my nose in here once in every a while??

You will miss your baby for a while......that is Normal......but after a while after things change and your Kids grow up, maybe you will be able to get another, not to replace your loved one.........

Tell your Daughter that is a very nice poem. Have you thought of getting another Quaker? Not so much as to replace cedar, but take the edge off of the hurt and fill the empty space in the room... Some years ago we were outside in our back yard with our teil and a neighbors dog ran over and killed it in front of us all. I decided theres no way we can sit there with an empty space so we got another and it really helped us all with the hurt. I pray some day soon the fires will die, the rains will come and the trees will be greener than ever along with the songs of birds. God Bless

Once again, I am so very sorry for your loss

So sad and my heart breaks for you. That's an interesting poem.....is Lily about 9? Only asking because when my oldest son was in 4th grade, they wrote poems that were very much like that and the teacher made a book of them for all the parents that I still have here. The format was identical to that one.

I hope you continue to check in here with us and let us know how you and your family are doing. Maybe when you all heal some, you will decide to get a new qp baby. (Hugs) to you!

Wolf - Might even think about getting a baby next summer or the next.. as I think they only breed once a year here.

Of course, am terrified as we only had Cedar for 7 weeks and wouldnt want us going thru it again if something does happen again.

Slic102 - Yeah, Lily's just starting grade 5 and is 10 yrs old...interesting they do have some same school work over there and here!

Will miss everyone here terribly and sure have helped me alot being able to talk about Cedar and of course how great it is as a forum for everyone with quakers etc - really cool

YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE JUST BECAUSE YOU LOST CEDAR!! There are many ppl here who either don't have a quaker, HAD a quaker and lost it, or are WAITING to get a quaker. Please don't feel you have to leave or that we wouldnt welcome you and your thoughts as you greive for Cedar or as you prepare to welcome a new quaker into your life eventually.