For Christmas we took the long drive down to South Carolina to visit my maternal grandmother and see my family. We amused ourselves in the car by starting a John Iriving book on CD, The Son of the Circus, and whiled away the time chatting. It was lovely seeing everyone, going for morning walks, swapping presents and sharing photos. We even had a ( Read more... )

The start of this journal (third in our saga) flashes back to 12:03am - my pager was going off and I had no clue how long I had been asleep for,just that there was no doubt that it hadn't been long enough. I was called back to school to anesthetize a GDV dog for surgery. Grumpy and underslept I went in, did what I had to, and made it back to bed by ( Read more... )