Saved a life last night

I still can't write about it though, I'm still a bit shocked.... I'll write out this page at a later time.

Ben Update

Ben should be in Florida tonight. The other transporter (Christine) almost got bit by him because she reached up over his head to pet him after a long ride from WI to Indianapolis, Indiana! She realized what she did but still..how stupid can you be to do that to a stressed out dog? DUH! Anyhow, Ben's favorite red kong ball was lost but he can get a new one. I'm so excited for Maria to meet him. He's such a neat dog. I just hope he doesn't turn on the water and open too many doors for her because he will make her crazy! LOL
The dynamics of my pack is changing again and Simon is beside himself....
I think I may have found a place to re-home Shadow to. It's a senior dog rescue here in WI about an hour and a half away and they match up the senior dogs with senior people to adopt them, so that will be cool if she can go there.

I'm really hating that I have to give up my dogs because of my health... in fact I'm down right PISSED OFF! It's so not fair to any of us. To the dogs, to me, hubby or even the grown up kids. The only ones that are taking it well are Harmony and Angie! Angie's just sick of the barking, which I don't blame her one bit but she would tolerate it for as long as she had to, just to please her mom. But Harmony is doing just fine as long as her Simon stays right here, she has no problems with any of the other dogs leaving....go figure. (Her and Simon are a month apart in age and have grown up together from the start because I was always Harmony's babysitter and those two still continue to grow up together)...

And so it goes around here....

Ben Left Today

Ben is on his way to Florida tonight. The lady from a WI dog rescue came and picked him up late this afternoon. He fell on the Wheelchair ramp and his toes/foot got stuck in the boards of the steps and he cried but he was still walking and running fine afterwards so I think it's alright. Ann, the lady that's driving him on the first part of the trip hasn't called me to tell me that he's favoring that foot or anything so he must be doing alright. I'll be calling her in the morning to check up on him though. It sure is quiet without him here. How will I ever take my naps without his big head resting by my belly and me stroking that perfectly smooth bunny soft hair on his head to help me fall asleep? This is gonna take some getting used to around here, for me and for the rest of the dogs. Here we go again, another shift in the pack... let the ripples start! lol

Now I hope we can find a home for Shadow. I can't risk falling over her again, I'm surprised I didn't break my frickin' arms or legs falling over her! If she would just get UP and move for me. But now she won't and I can't risk that anymore. It sucks. One of these times it will be my head on the cement and I may not come back from a fall like that :(

My Birthday Wish

When Harmony came down to give hugs and kisses last night she says, " Hey Framma, remember when you blew out your birthday candle and you got to make a wish?" I told her I sure did and that it was a very good wish too!
She says "Well, Fram, I know you're not supposed to tell anyone your wish or it won't come true so, I'm just gonna ask you something and you can just nod your head yes or no ok?" I agreed, wondering what the heck this kid has gotten me into now.....
She says...."So, remember what I whispered in your ear before you blew out the candle?" I nodded yes... she says "Well, was that your wish?" I nodded yes...She took off running through the house like a lunatic, saying yes, yes, yes, sort of under her breath, with the 6 dogs hot on her heels, wondering what just happened!! Her blonde hair was just flying behind her and as she ran back to me, after a few laps through the house, she couldn't even breathe! lol.
Her eyes were as big as dinner plates and she says "Oh my goodness Fram, do you know what? I wished for the same thing!!" I said "Oh really??" She says "Yup I told you to wish for a magic wand and I wished for one too! So now we can get anything we want Framma, ANYTHING!!" She grabs my face in her sweaty little hands and looks me right in the eyes and says: "Do you know what this means??? We can get a swimming pool and a HUGE swing set (with her arms spread wide open) and get Papa a brand new Van and all kinds of good stuff!! Framma! It's gonna be AMAZING!!!"

I just sat there not saying anything.....She just stands there looking at me, her brow scrunches up and she says "What?, What, Framma? What's the matter?" I say to her: "Well, Harm, that sounds like a really good plan with all those new things but guess what?" She gets all serious looking and says "What?" I said "Our wish for magic wands won't come true now because we told each other what we wished for."
Her eyes filled with tears and her lip started to tremble and I thought for sure she was gonna start wailing in about 5 seconds... Then she sighed...a big full, fill your lungs and let it back out sigh.... She looks at the floor and says " Framma, our next Birthdays are so far away, how are we ever gonna wait that long to wish for magic wands again?" And then the tears spilled over... I just hugged her and told her that we'll be a whole year older next year and by then we can wish for even bigger and better things by then! She was happy with that but she still said that a whole year was way to long to wait.
It made me wish that we had a birthday 4 times a year or something! This kid thought she had it all figured out at 6 years old! Poor baby :(

Feeding Frenzy!

Forgot to tell ya...I made a beef roast and carrots and taters for supper Sat night. And I made beef sandwiches for lunch on Sunday. Then Sunday morning I made a huge Taco Salad with a bunch of veggies on it and chips and Chili so we would have stuff to eat for the Daytona 500 race. Of course I missed most of it because it was my nap time, but the guys got to pig out and they loved it. I think Phil is getting spoiled by me and Angie's cooking though. What I don't think of to make then she thinks of something yummy. I swear by the end of summer we'll have Phil using his right hand to get food in his mouth! lol

I told the kids that if they want me to keep on cooking that they have to help me like they have been. They have to open cans and pour the big pots, get things out of the oven and stuff cuz my hands just can't do it anymore. So far I haven't gotten any complaints...I think they finally got tired of the fast food crap and remembered that Mom really IS a good cook and that if they do a few simple things for me that I'll make them some awesome meals! I mean geez, I could seriously burn myself if one of my hands gives out on me or if I don't feel the hot water fall on my fingers.
I never thought I'd hear the day that MY kids didn't want McDonalds though! Does that mean I WON? That I'm the better cook? lol

The kids better agree or they're gonna fricken starve!! LMAO

Blizzard

Twelve inches of snow last night and today. I think it's pretty out but then again, I'm not the one who has to go out in this crap and shovel it! lol Of course Harmony is loving it and was outside playing in it and spilling snow back onto the sidewalks, which was trying everyone's patience out there that are working so hard to keep the driveway and sidewalks clear. Finally, Papa made her get her own little shovel out and he put her to work and made her clean up her own messes she made. She cleaned up the snow but then went up to the house, pulled open the door then stuck her head back around it and yelled "Papa, you're mean I'm not gonna play with you until summertime!!" She stormed into the house and Angie must have sent her right back out and she sat on the wheelchair ramp for a minute and pouted, then she figured out that she could slide down the ramp on her slippery snow pants so she was having a blast sliding down the ramp and little did she know, she was "shoveling" it off at the same time... LOL
Papa had to watch the kids for an hour and a half tonight. If I go up there to watch them, Harmony will never go to bed, she has too much to tell me and Papa will just tune her out. He can do that better than I can and she gets fed up and just goes to bed for him. I can tune out adults so much better! lol
Papa told me that Harmony wants me to come up there tomorrow when Papa's supposed to watch the kids again...I think I'll go an hour early though so I can play for a bit with her then get out of there somehow before bedtime so she will still go to bed for Papa.
Most of us are healthy in this house for once so I'm hoping to get to spend some time with baby Canon and Phil this week. I can't believe how hard of a winter this has been for everyone, sick-wise I mean. Maybe this means we'll have a healthy Spring? Yeah right! Like we could get so lucky! haha!!

Trying to fix it...sorry

I don't know what I did, but I must have did it somewhere along the line..... I can't make a paragraph no matter how hard I try! I have looked through my settings and everything but the answer still eludes me and it's pissing me off. Time to get the master mind Ryan on here to figure this out but the dang kid sleeps until noon...hang tough people, it's only 3 hours away! Yeah right, like I have soooooo many followers! LMAO

I think I figured it out but now I have to go back and fix all the posts and put them into paragraphs so they don't look like one giant run on sentence. Joy,Joy!