To get the holidays started, the kids and I decided to adopt an animal from Farm Sanctuary. It’s an amazing cause that gives love, care and sanctuary to abused and neglected farm animals. Since we were adopting as a family, we used consensus to pick our animal. We could choose between a chicken, rabbit, goose, duck, turkey, goat, sheep, pig and cow. I was going for either the turkey (to alleviate my Thanksgiving guilt) or a sheep (the only animal option that’s part of the nativity). But the people have spoken and today we became the proud adopters of a …. pig. *sigh* Not quite what I had in mind, but the kids are thrilled. I think they were swayed by the movie Babe. And Drew has now sworn off pork. So we’re headed in the right direction. (Above darling image is from bluebison.net.)