Four more days & POTD

So four more days now until I get to see Hattie. Just thinking of seeing her and my daughter at the airport melts my heart. Plus my son is coming on Saturday and will meet her for the first time and the thought of that melts my already melted heart.

Now for my second photo of the day. Duncan. We adopted him last year and he is a pit bull/pointer mix. We adore each other.

His favorite things are.

• Laying on top of you. Not next to you but literally full body on top of you.
• Eating. Anything, any time.
• Other dogs. His problem is though he loves them too much and doesn't pick up on cues of when to stop loving them quite so much.
• Buffalo rawhides. I try and take it away from him when he gnaws it down but he has figured that out. So now it takes a bribe of several dog biscuits and pepperoni slices to lure him close enough to get him to drop it.
• The cats. The feeling though isn't always mutual especially when he drags Lexi around by her head.

 

 

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Five more days!

Only five more days now till I get to see Hattie. I don't even want to wish the time away as I know the five days I have there will fly by. But no worries, I will just come home and start planning the next trip!

Since I won't always have new pictures of Hattie I thought I would also post pictures of things that are around me. I figure it is a great way to stop and take notice as we tend to just march through life and only stop when things hit us right in the face. So I will be posting these random photos of the day.

So here is the first one....

The other day I was standing in the living room and heard this loud crash and a huge tree had fallen in the woods across the street. It was about five feet in diameter so we aren't sure why it just fell. Sadly the city has tagged another large tree next to it to come down as they are probably worried that will also suffer the same fate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Just six more days!

I am leaving to see my Maryland family in six more days and I can't stand it.

Not only do I get to see Hattie,

 

I also get to see my Granddog Norman AND.....................

I get to have an orange crush (or six) and seafood! Yeah baby!!

 

 

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Happy 4th!!

My husband and I had no plans for today but after listening to everyone at work ramble on about what fun they were going to have I started searching for ideas.

So, wait for it.....we went to the zoo. They were having free admission for veterans and half price for spouses this whole week. So off we went and we had a fabulous time seeing this guy....

And then after a great morning of walking all over we ended up at the butterfly exhibit which was my fav part of the day......

And just when I thought it couldn't get any better I get this picture of Hattie on her first 4th of July........

Happy 4th all!

 

 

 

 

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Hanging with Dad

I was going to do a post about our fur balls but then my daughter texted me this picture of Hattie last night.

Just hanging out in her t shirt and jeans with the guy that she obviously already adores, as we all do.

Her Dad.

 

 

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Work. Yuck. Sort of.

As a new work weeks rolls around I always have a feeling of dread. I used to get the same feeling on Sundays nights before starting a school week when I was younger.

Maybe I don't have the right mindset and think of everything that might go wrong instead of everything that might go right. I do tend to stare at the crap on my desk wondering what the heck I am doing there. (this is actually my husband's desk at home but you get the point).

Every Sunday we check our Powerball numbers praying we won so Monday morning we could call in "gone". But so far no such luck.

Honestly though if I stayed home all day, every day I would go absolutely crazy. And even though work can be just too much on days it does fulfill some sick need in me to be challenged to the point of almost utter insanity.

Now that Hattie is here though I would love to watch her when Jenna goes back to work so instead of days filled with meetings and emails and conference calls I would get to be with this cute thing.

 

 

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She's one month old

I'm a little late with posting Hattie's one month old pictures but I think it was worth the wait. I'd like to say she looks just like me but honestly she seems to have a little of both families in her. Which is perfect.

 

 

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