This Year

This year will be a great year and an especially hard year. The great part is all of my (4) children will be graduating from something. Lil will be graduating from pre-school, Wy from Kindergarten, Moo from jr. high and Peeps from high school. This is also the hard part in many respects, least of which is my first baby will be going off to college next year. - sometimes this world spins too fast.- But the hardest part is that this summer my two best friends (one of which is my sister) moved out of the state and Jodie (the other one) moved nearly out of the country. I miss coffee and lunches and shopping with them and I hope I can make all the ups and downs of this year without them here.

Sam's

I was just going to Sam's. I had my list and my diet coke. I knew my mission and it was not to buy a dog. However, we were just discussing that morning when we were going to here from the rescue agency about our adoption. It had been weeks and we (the kids) were getting anxious about our dog situation. "When are we going to get our dog?" was the daily question, not to mention my teenage daughter taking her siblings to the SPCA weekly for dashed hopes.

So...there they were, on the way to Sam's a truck parked on the side of the road with...puppies. Not just any puppies, these were the breed we were looking for - must be fate, right?...

Anywho, long story short...we love him. His name is Gibson (Gib, Gibby, Gibber, Giblet, etc...we're nick-namers).