I stared at the sparkling red juice in my glass and wondered what my New Year's resolutions should be. 2008 was a year of beginnings for me. First job in a bar, daughter's first day of school, the arrival of two precious doggies who helped ease the pain in our hearts from the loss of our beloved Hoss and the terrifying leap into my thirties. ( Read more... )

OMG Halloween this year RAWKED!!!!!

Daphne chose Daddy’s costume and hers, so I decided to be a gypsy pirate too. Course after John hollered “aaaaargh me wench” for the hundredth time that evening, I’d begun to reconsider the wisdom of that choice.

I volunteered at Daphne’s school for the Halloween party from 8-12am  then hurried home to get us ( Read more... )

 
Guess who won Employee of the month at the Fox and Hound last night?????

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

That’s right! The girl who had never so much as tasted liquor, never waited on a table and never spent any time in a bar at all before the day she was hired at Fox and Hound a couple months ago. That girl didn’t know the difference between Coors ( Read more... )

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  Poor Strawberry is forever doomed to be the pretty one I fear......


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I woke up this morning to a beautiful vase of roses and two grinning faces. Then, my baby girl and my husband escorted me out to the living room where I sat down and watched a Mother’s Day DVD they’d made for me last week. In it, he played the guitar while she danced and sang a Mother’s Day Ballad she’d written just for me.

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I’ve been very sick for the last few days, hence my inability to answer all your encouraging comments on my last post. I had Strep and another viral bug at the same time. This is the second battle I’ve had this year with the same stupid combination from hell and I’m never going to catch it again!!!!!

Anyway, I’m much better today which is a good ( Read more... )

Gideon is 11 weeks old now and growing like a fungus. Possibly faster even. He's also become my baby. He'll come running when I call him, skid to a stop, sit, gobble up his treat and then gallop away like a dizzy Clydesdale. It's possibly the most endearing thing ever and I adore him!


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