He's here.....

Landen Reese, the newest member of our family, arrived today at 8:02 this morning weighing in at 8.8 lbs, 20 1/4 inches, strong and healthy. His mom and dad are also doing well and big sister Emerson and big brother Braeden are thrilled to finally meet their little brother. It's been quite a day and we're all feeling very blessed.

Tucker......

Tucker survived his first ordeal with the vet only to succumb to Lord only knows what. After spending the weekend with the vet so he could figure out what was wrong with Tucker, he called Monday morning to let me know that we had lost him. The vet is truly stumped and with my permission is doing a necropsy to try to figure out what happened. I have to say that in spite of having 4 cats, I really miss having Tucker bound around and demand attention from everyone. He really was a spirited and loving puppy.

We cried when we got the news, but I was surprised by my mother when she cried. This is a woman from the "old school" that a pet is just a pet and they come and go, but somehow she got attached to Tucker. I think his size was the hook. :-)

Bad day...

Today turned into a bad day for my puppy Tucker. I took him to be neutered today and to get his shots and instead he had an adverse reaction to the anesthesia. As the vet put it "he just about tanked on us." He gave him the shots, but we will have to try again in another 2-3 weeks for the neutering. The vet said they have some extra precautions they can take and Tucker should be fine. He was going to send him home and gave me some instructions for tonight, but when he came back with Tucker he had changed his mind and wanted to keep him overnight. He was still pretty out of it and he wanted to get some fluids into him and monitor him a bit more. Geez Louise, you worry that everything is going to be okay when you take them and you get there to pick them up thinking everything is fine and you get hit with something like this. Maybe if I hadn't worried he would have been fine.

Vacuum Saga

Vacuums...great inventions if you could just find one that actually works more than 6 months. I wonder how many of us have bought 3 or 4 over the last several years and have had no luck at all. Thats been my story. So today I happened upon a Dyson on clearance and decided that now was as good a time as any to invest. As I got to the counter to pay, the customer ahead of me looked at the box and told me that she l-o-v-e-s her Dyson and that she's had it for 4 years. I sure hope its an indications that this will finally be the last vacuum I have to buy.

Welcome to my new home. I know I seem to jump around a lot, but I feel like I have more options here on Blogspot. Guess we'll see how it goes. I suppose the next option would be a website. :-)

With the business officially closed I've managed to get all my "closing" tasks done this week. I really thought this would be so much more emotional, but that's not the case. Maybe it's because I have nothing left to give on this one. I do wonder what I'm going to do next, but I haven't come close to worrying about it. I know it's because the Lord is in control. I must say I'm looking forward to having regular hours and being able to do something fun once in a while. Please keep my in your prayers as the search for a "new" life begins. :-)