Our Holiday Visitors

This is Short Round. OK - well that's what we have decided to call her for the moment. The name on her tag says "Gabby", but really that just doesn't seem to fit. So the story is that we found this little gal at the park on Tuesday. Although she is teeny tiny, she is not a puppy. It was rather warm on Tuesday and Wednesday so we kept her in a kennel in the garage. A cold front blew through overnight though and now it's too cold to have her outside. She is currently residing in our downstairs bathroom. So far so good, she seems to be doing just fine and Tucker is not bothering her too much.

It's now 4 days later (I started this on Christmas eve) and Gabby has been happily reunited with her family. We decided to drive around again to look for signs and we just happened to find one. So Christmas Eve we delivered Gabby back to her grateful owners. And yes, had we been unable to find them we would have kept her.

We had another visitor (this one human) the day after Christmas. One of my friends went into labor and we happened to be on call to watch her other little girl. So Astoria came to stay with us on Saturday. Her baby sister Krynn was born Saturday evening and everyone is doing just fine.

Now it is back to our usual loud and unruly house, just the 4 of us. Sometimes I think we need more unexpected guests just to calm things down!

Birthday Boy

I never did get around to making Ben a birthday cake - shhh, don't tell anybody :-) Anyway, here is the "official" 2 year photo. Happy Birthday my sweet little man!

So here it is...

Just another random post. I had fully intended to post more in Nov. and certainly early Dec. Thanksgiving was fun, lots of food, lots of fun, lots of people.

Then came early December and with it the end of Mike's job. Not to put too fine of a point on it, but that has been difficult to deal with, for all of us. So, while I thought of my blog often and all of my faithful readers, my heart just wasn't in it. I thought long and hard as to whether this is the appropriate outlet for those innermost feelings, which I would no doubt share with any of my readers out there (cause the only people that read this are related to me!!). Ultimately I decided that wasn't what I wanted to do. So. Today.

Well, today is Benny's 2nd birthday. I started the day thinking that every day in this house ought to be a birthday because man, those little munchkins ACTUALLY BEHAVED this morning. We made it until nearly 10 o'clock before a major meltdown. Then the rest of the day set in. A & B have been hyper, super hyper, more ridiculously hyper than should ever be allowed. And we haven't even had cake, or anything else sweet for that matter. So now they are napping and I am pooped and I should be napping too. I did take some birthday pictures of Ben, and like so many other broken promises on this little diary, one day I'll get them posted.

If I get my stuff together I'll go downstairs and make Ben's birthday cake - it will be strawberry this year. Most likely I am just going to go take a nap because I am cold and tired.

And now, for the final note, a friend of mine from highschool has a blog and she is doing a silly little christmas giveaway and if I mention her blog in my blog, well it doesn't really matter. Point being, it's been mentioned!