Home Movies and A House Full of Dogs A.K.A. I Really Need To Come Up With Better Titles

I try to stay as positive as I can on a daily basis. Obviously I do get depressed from time to time, but for the most part I know this is all happening for a reason, and I just keep telling myself that. I know that God is not going to give me anything that I can’t handle with His help, but sometimes I wish he didn’t have as much trust in me. Ya know? Sometimes I wish He saw my faith even simpler than it is, and was like, okay, here’s the deal, I’m not going to give you more than you can handle today, so today’s challenge is that you are going to stub your toe. But I guess it is reassuring that He sees me as capable as handling such a life changing event. I don’t know what gave Him that idea, but I guess He can see more in me than I can see in myself, and that motivates me, to know that no matter what, I will get through this the way that He has planned, and that I will be able to rejoice at the end of it.

Okay, enough of my emotional side. Ife – I don’t know if we’ll make it out to dinner before I have my surgery so I don’t know if I’ll be able to write about you on my blog! Gordon – continue to look for some books for Warner, I think he’ll be disappointed if you can’t find any. I’ll have to buy him the big pack of crayons (I did look at Wal-Mart last week for coloring books, but for myself, and could NOT find a single one anywhere!).

Edgar continues to bewitch everyone with his cuteness. We spent the night at my parent’s house on Saturday night and it was Edgar’s first time to meet the Bassets. Maggie was none to thrilled (she’s a moody old lady), but I think Eliza was excited to have a dog around that is her size (yes, our monstrosity of a puppy is the size of a full grown basset hound). Edgar was a little lost and pathetic this morning when Warner and I decided to sleep in and let my mom puppy-sit – apparently he sat in her lap whining. Speaking of little, sweet, innocent Edgar, as I am sitting here writing this, he just let out a very loud burp. Anyway, all four dogs played hard all day, so I’m hoping they will sleep well tonight!

My dad got out the home movies this afternoon and we watched some from my 7^th birthday and my 1^st birthday and a few other milestones in between. Let’s just say I was a cute kid! I was really worried that dance recitals were going to make an appearance, and that’s something even I should not have to relive - but they stayed put up on the shelf, thank goodness. My brother was pretty funny as a kid – he loooooved presents and did not really care what they were, just that he had more to open! It was pretty entertaining!

For those of you that think I am a good writer, please pass this along to all the English teachers that ever taught me – not a single one of them was ever pleased with my writing skills. Unfortunately, it was probably one of my least favorite classes in school, so I guess I never really tried to hard.

I will leave you with a picture of my beautiful smiling face (without make-up, so no judging!) I also really need a haircut as well! But hey, Edgar is pretty cute!!!