Well, I never really had a chance as a kid. Then my husband and I bought this old farmhouse with the "magic basement" and I started escorting snakes from the basement back outside. One spring day we noticed a bunch of garters sticking their heads out from around the old artisian well (no longer used by people) beside the house. We were picking them up and showing them to the kids, but we put them back. Later that summer we caught another garter and decided to keep it for a few days so the kids could watch it more closely. We let that one go. Then this year I decided I wanted to keep some of the pretty Easterns from our yard, but found out that's a no-no in NYS, so let them go...so now I'm looking for Pugets (actually have a lead on some, if they ever get born).

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Mom had this "extra" living room, one that no one ever "lived" in, well after my sister decided she needed all the display items from out of there, Dorothy and I decided to make it into a reptile room.
Does it make me a bad mom that I'm already thinking of converting the kids' rooms into snake rooms as soon as they move out? My oldest will be a senior in high school next year.