Oh for the love of a DOG!!!!

I have had a love affair with my dog for over 13 years now.  He is my friend.  He isn't such a good dog, but I still love him.  And I am sad that he is already 13.  My family enjoys making jokes that he doesn't have a lot of time left.  I try to take it all in stride and laugh with them...but I surely wasn't ready to see his life come to an end last night.
You see, my sweet little girl has a cold.  Runny nose, sneezing, coughing.  So, just before bedtime I gave her a chewable benadryl.  When I looked back down to her she said: "I gave it Kobie."  And there stood Kobie at her feet.  She feeds him often.  And he rarely turns down a hand-out. Often times it isn't even a hand-out.  He likes to swipe food from their little hands. (one of the many reason he isn't such a good dog)  So, I went into panic mode.  Here it is bedtime for my three kids and potentially permanent bedtime for my dog.  My dear husband starting making phone calls.  First the emergency vet.  As he read off the ingredients to the tech on the phone they said that he SHOULD be OK.  But for $60 we could call animal poison control.  YIKES!!  They also offered that regular poison control might help.  After a call to them, they also said he SHOULD be OK.  SHOULD isn't really what I was hoping they would tell me.  However, for a 13 year old dog it was the best we were gonna get.

He IS OK.  Especially considering he never even ate the pill.  A little after they kids were soundly asleep, I looked down to find the pill lying quietly under our kitchen table.    Oh well...at least you can count on us to help keep some people from being bored in their evening job.

Finally??

You might remember back in June I was itching for August.  After a particularly hard day of mothering my three, I had that "when do you go back to school?" feeling.  But, here we are and I am once again shocked at how quickly the summer went by!!  I thought I would be saying: "Finally!!"  And here I am wondering how it can go by so quickly.  I guess that just goes to show that time DOES fly when you are having fun!!

Mostly our summer was glorious!  We spent a lot of time at the neighborhood pool and I have a tan for the first time in MANY, MANY years!  (yes, I wore sunscreen---wasn't trying to tan)  We spent time with family and even made some new friends!  We learned some new things and we made some memories!! I am so thankful for such a great summer and for healthy and happy kids to spend it with!! 

Now we are back in the season of complete busy!  And complete abundance!  School started on Monday and so far so good.  We have been calling our little man "Mr. Kindergarten" this week!  He is loving it and loves being at school with his big brother, you know, our well accomplished 2nd grader!!  That said 2nd grader started his first season of tackle football last week.  Cub scouts started again this week.  And AWANA starts up after Labor Day.  We also have some WOLFPACK football coming up soon!   Need I say more?  Making memories...that is what we do!!!