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I didn’t get to say good-bye

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Last night I made the mistake of watching Marley and Me. Excellent movie, but not something I really needed to watch, at least not this time in my life lol. I spend the last half of the movie trying to keep the girls from seeing me crying. Thankfully they were watching Monsters vs Aliens in their bedroom most of that time.

I did come to a realization of whey losing Diamond is so difficult for me though, I didn’t get to say good bye. I didn’t get to tell her I love her. Shea said it would have torn me up, but I’m not sure this is any better. I miss my puppy. The only other dog’s passing that hit me this hard was when Gypsy left us. I was 14 years old and I literally grew up with her from the time my parents brought me home from the hosiptal till then. She was a puppy when I was a baby. It was difficult for me.

I miss all our other dogs, but these two are the hardest ones.

I want another dog just not sure when we will get one. We have alot of research and alot of money we have to save up just to get a puppy. Right now we have alot of bills to get through so it’s not top of the list. So many things to do before that.

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Potty Training

Monday, October 5th, 2009

I think it finally clicked with Kathleen!

We still have accidents but for the past week, more often than not Kathleen goes in the potty no matter what. We still go through a ton of panties cause she tends to take then off each bathroom trip, but that’s something we can work on later. It’s just become habit AND she also tends to wait till the last minute and wets them a little bit. But we are doing wonderfully well with the potty and I’m so happy.

I would really like to give her a big reward for that, but what I want to do I don’t want to think is all hers. I am really longing for a puppy. Not that it can’t wait cause it’s going to have to until we can afford to pay the bills for the beginning vet bills and the puppy fees and all. I’m thinking we’ll probably get one around Christmas/Tax time, but we’ll see.

We still have many conversations with Kathleen about Diamond. None seem to be overly sad. Yes, she misses her but its more along the lines of I miss Diamond, but she’s up in the sky. We talk alot about the stars and Diamond. I know she’ll have to deal with death sometime, someday, but at the tender of 3 I don’t think is the proper time to do that.

Sammi hasn’t cared one way or the other about Diamond. I don’t think she really understood her not coming home, but she doesn’t even mention her when she sees pictures, just says dog and barks lol. No name associated with her so I guess that’s a good transition for her.

I’ve discussed a puppy with Kathleen and asked her if she wanted to help with the puppy, feed it and teach it to go potty outside and stuff, she seems to be for it, so we’ll see. I feel for the puppy cause it’s going to get overloved I’m sure.

I think we both agree that a black lab might be our next best bet, but we’ll see.

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Labor Day & Pets

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

I can’t say how much I miss being home when family gathering holiday’s roll around. My day was uneventful, I didn’t even plan to barbaque. Not that my grill would work if I wanted to anyway. I haven’t grilled all summer long thanks to not having the money to refill the gas tank for the grill.

I’m having a hard time with missing Diamond. I try not to let the girls see how much it hurts. I’m not worrying about doing something wrong with her, I just miss her to death. Shea doesn’t want another one yet. And I understand why. We can’t afford a puppy right now anyway. To many added expenses.

I have suggested fish to him but he and I both agree that it’s difficult finding a place with the girls in their I must get into everything stage. I suggested a cat. My initial thought was that it would be cheaper than a dog but they too need licensing and vet visits after the initial kitten stage. The biggest thing there though is it might help with the mice population in the winter time. Dunno how they do it but every winter we get little critters in our attic and house, at least since Katrina anyway I don’t recall having them before then.

I’m not sure if we’ll have a pet anytime soon. Maybe once at the beginning of next year after a tax refund comes in. I did get one bit of news from Shea that in March if they strike, he plans to go to work through the strike. That was awesome news as we really couldn’t afford it other wise. And it’ll leave our tax refund for things that are more important like getting me a new computer, hopefully Windows 7 will be available I really don’t want to have to upgrade and/or get Vista at all lol, but we’ll see. I’d love to get a MAC but don’t think that will happen. Besides I couldn’t play WoW on it, don’t think WoW installs on the MAC, much less all my design software. We’ll see.

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