Pookie Bear

We have a new baby in the house. He has been here about a month. And he has stolen our hearts. He loves to play, chew and bite (when playing).

As you can see, he is a little cutie pie.

He is a Maltipoo.  Poodle and Maltese mix.

He is constantly underfoot.  He HAS to be where ever we are.  At times it feels like I have a toddler in the house again.  In fact he has been stepped on three times this weekend alone.

This just kills us.  It is so funny how he just lays out flat when he lays down. 

He is our new baby and we just love him.

It was the night of Thanksgiving...

...and all I could say,
"how many times must I
run the dishwasher today!"

the food was prepared
by many hands;
we ate so much that
we must run to far away lands.

to the theater we went
to watch 2012;
it was so good I would
like to buy it for ourselves.

next up the
Christmas tree went;
but for some reason
the tree is bent.

last came the campfire
out in the backyard;
it was so nice and relaxing
to leave it was hard.

now we are inside
each doing our own thing;
computers, games, and tv
or waiting on the dishwasher to ding!

Happy Thanksgiving to all our
family and friends;
and be thankful for Jesus
for His love never ends!

Nevermind!

I'm not deleting the blog.

But I don't have much to say right now.

We are still stressed. Things are still crazy.

We are out of school for Thanksgiving break. A much needed break.

Hopefully things will calm down now that we have a chance to relax.

I'll update more later this weekend or early in the week.

Time to say Goodbye

Things are rough.  A lot rougher than any of us imagined.

I getting rid of extras.

I'm cleaning house.

I'm gonna be selling a lot of stuff to help pay off bills.

I'm also getting rid of stuff that take up my time.

My family needs more of me.

My God needs more of me.

I need more of me.

So this will be my last post.

After a couple of days I will delete this blog.

I will be saying good bye.

If you need or want to know something email us:  rdsbds@att.net

Or you can call us.  Most of you know our cell phones numbers.  If you don't just email me and I will give it to you.

I love this blog and will miss it.  But some changes need to be made around here and I am doing my part.

Love you!

Refreshed!

That is how I feel today.

Don't ask me why or how.

But I feel refreshed.  I slept good, with the help of NyQuil.  Boy, that stuff is amazing isn't it?

I didn't want to get out of bed but for different reasons this time.  It was just to warm and comfy.

I'm at peace again.  After days of being depressed and angry.  Yes, I was angry.  Angry at everyone, even God.  I'm not to proud and self righteous to admit that I still get angry with God sometimes.  I haven't talked to Him or prayed in days.  But today I feel closer to Him than I have in a long time.  Maybe absence does make the heart grow fonder.

I don't know what happened.  I don't know if you or someone has been praying for me.  Let me tell you I could always use your prayers.  I don't know if my random list yesterday was lifting a weight off of me.  I don't know.

But I do know I feel great today.  I feel happy.  I feel refreshed.

Now it is time to focus on helping the rest of my family feel this way.  Ashlee and Roy are both still having a rough go of it.  Ashlee misses both dogs and I believe she has a bully issue at school.  I'm emailing her teacher today.  Roy is stressed.  He has to much to bear at church, plus school, plus a part-time job.  Emilee is having normal teenager issues.

Pray for Ashlee, pray for strength to deal with the loss of two dogs and a bully.


Pray for Roy, pray for strength to deal with all he has going on.  Pray that something will change so that he doesn't have so much on his plate.  Hopefully something so that he only has one job.


Pray for Emilee, to help her and us survive her teenage years.

Randomness

I'm feeling very discombobulated and random today.  So I will leave you with my very random thoughts:

• I'm tired and exhausted and I feel yucky.
• I don't want any more dogs.  Ever.
• Thanksgiving break seriously needs to hurry up and get here.
• Things need to hurry up and settle at church.
• Someone, please tell me how I can win $1 million without buying a lottery ticket?
• It feels like everything is falling apart.
• I want to be 10 years old again.
• The 2 fire alarms today at school have given me a migraine.
• I need a maid.
• I don't know how we are gonna manage Christmas or go home for Christmas.
• Things stink right now but at least all my family and I are alive and healthy.  (I tried to include at least one positive thing.)

I'm sad and very very mad!

Do you remember our new baby I told you about. Well his previous owners, the ones that let him get completely flea infested (I mean nests of fleas) and neglected him saw Emilee with him and came to retrieve him.

I understand he was their dog first. But they were not taking care of him. He was a miserable baby.

We ALL completely fell in love with him. We have spent $200 in vet bills and buying things for him. Our daughters are crying. I'm crying. Roy is mad.

I tried to reason with the woman, I even offered to buy him. But she said no. She said he was part of her family. I wanted to yell. I wanted to scream. "If he is such a part of your family how did you let him get that bad. How could he be gone for over a week and you not put signs up everywhere."

I can't go through this again. To lose two dogs we loved very much a month apart from one another is to hard.

I understand things could be worse. Our family is still healthy. People everywhere have sick and dying children and babies. How can a dog compare, right? Especially one you have only had a week.

Well you would have to understand how hard things have been around here for the last year. How down in the dumps we have all been. How depressed some of us have been. We are miserable. Nothing is working out. Then Judd died so unexpectedly. That was a tremendous blow. One that I didn't think we would recover from. Then Pookie showed up. We were happy again. We were in love. There was joy in our house again. Laughter, giggles, licks, frolicking in the floor.

But in an instant it is gone. The saddness is back. The depression I feel is right around the corner again. There is a fog looming over us and I can't breathe. I'm sick to my stomach. I want to go home. I want to rewind back 3 years. I want to have never come to Texas.

Please pray for us. Pray that this woman will have a change of heart and realize that Pookie was happier and taken better care of with us. Pray that she will allow us to buy him or better yet just give him to us. Pray!