During breakfast, my husband asked our children to help him weed a little later. The children eagerly agreed. Ten minutes after going outside with Daddy, the children started to wander inside with “pet” grasshoppers. I gave them containers for the grasshoppers with strict orders to keep their “pets” outside.

Patrick is now crying, “My grasshopper escaped in the house.”

I have a feeling that this is not the first grasshopper that will or has escaped in our house.

Beetles, earthworms, potato bugs, and spiders have preceded the grasshopper.