Anyone with yellow rat snake experience?

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I know I've already said it Owl, but that snake is BEAUTIFUL!!!!
IW17, I paid 65 plus shipping for her, so 115 total.
The bad part is, I'm not happy at all with her. I don't do well with really small snakes. Too many issues with my hands and fingers. I can't safely handle a snake that smalled, that's why I paid extra to get a yearling instead of a hatchling.
I suppose I could just leave it alone and wait for it to grow. But I'm not sure how good that's going to be for the snake going that long without being handled, or how long its going to take for that matter. I will have had her two weeks on wednesday and she hasn't eaten yet. The breeder says she never missed a meal and ate a pinkie every 7 to 10 days. If I had ANY idea that she was that small, there's NO way I would have bought her. Not to mention, the picture they sent me of her made her look so bright an colorful. My wife fell in love with her instantly, got disappointed when we almost didnt get her because the breeder got some males in and decided he wanted us to buy one of those instead or to get her he decided that he wanted us to buy a male as well. I posted on fauna and he agreed to honor the original deal. My wife was like a little kid on christmas waiting for the fed ex driver. You should have seen the confused and concerned look on her face when she saw how small the box was. Then , I wish I could forget the look on her face when she saw the snake. She was beyond disappointed, almost heart broken.
The kids got home from school, ran in to see the new snake. "did fedex come, is she here yet?" I pointed to the tank and they asked where she was, I said in the tank, they both said, where, she's not in there, I lifted up the paper towel and their excitement was instantly gone. They disappointedly asked me why we didn't get the one I told them we were getting. It looked so much better in the pictures that we actually wondered if it was the same snake. The breeder assured us it was the right snake, the right hatch date, or date range since he couldn't be sure which month in the 4th quarter of 2012, and assured us that she is the right size.
So unfortunately, I'm not happy at all, I'm really pissed off, partly at the money I wasted, but mostly because the disappointment it caused my wife and kids.
I'm actually trying to find another home for her, I know I'm not going to get anything for her, a few bucks, but really, who is going to pay anything for her. It's not like yellow rats are insanely popular. Between my not being able to handle her and my family's disappointment, I decided to try to get something else that they will be excited about and that I can work with. We don't have room for another snake unfortunately.