Today we had three things on our schedule. Someone was coming to the house at 10:00
a.m. to work with Antonio. His therapeutic
massage therapist was coming to the house at 2:30 p.m.(to stretch out his
muscles and work out any knots for his CP) and I had to be somewhere by 4:00
p.m. So we had a very busy day today
planed. But, we had a rough day
yesterday with Elizabeth’s dog being put down.
She cried all afternoon and evening yesterday and cried loudly off and
on all night long last night. She just
could not stay in her bed without her dog.
Bless her heart. She misses her
baby. Needless to say we all didn’t get
much sleep. We all just felt so badly.
I know this is going to sound strange because I have only
introduced you to all my kids dogs. But
alas, I myself have two poodles. Pickles
(a red) and Melissa (white) I got them from a breeder who was retiring them
from breeding. I got Pickles three years
ago when I asked Tim if I could have another baby. He got me a poodle. :) Pickles
is five now. Melissa I got about 6
months ago when I was going thru wanting another child once again. Melissa is about 8 years old. I enjoy grooming all our dogs a lot, it is
very relaxing for me, so these were good dogs for me.
Anyways, they are both sweet and loving and love all my
children. So when Elizabeth got up this
morning so sad. As all the kids were
taking their dogs out to potty and feeding them and she didn’t have her
Cookie. I told her to help me out and
care for Melissa for the day. She brightened
up just a bit to do it and when Elizabeth did her school work today Melissa sat
nicely on Elizabeth’s lap. I am always up
and busy doing things so I think that Melissa just was enjoying the company and
the warm lap for the whole morning.
As soon as the 10:00 person left I got all the kids ready
and took them out. They had all
forgotten that it was home school bowling day.
If I feel up to it I try to make it there at all cost as Antonio cannot
participate in many things but this. So
he looks forward to it every other month and I wanted to cheer up the children
and get their mind off Cookie being put down yesterday. The kids didn’t know where we were going till
we pulled into the bowling alley parking lot.
It’s the first real smile I saw on Elizabeth’s face all day.
They had a really fun time.
The Littles
My two young men
Bowling did seem to take their mind off everything for a while Praise God.
Then we went to see Tim at Chick-fil-A. They love popping in to see their dad.
After all the running all day we got home and Elizabeth
spent the afternoon sad about Cookie but didn’t stop cuddling and hugging Melissa (the white poodle)
close all afternoon. Melissa in turn seemed to enjoy the personal
attention from Elizabeth. I could see
this was becoming a very good thing for them both. By the
time Tim got home I had the idea to give Elizabeth my dog Melissa. It seems that Melissa was happy to be spoiled
by Elizabeth and seemed to know Elizabeth needed to cuddle a lot right now. And I truly think it will help Elizabeth
sleep better tonight. I pray. So we called in Elizabeth and told her and
she was very happy about it. She said
she knew how much I loved my poodles and to give her one made her happy to know
I loved her that much. That she was
going to take the best care of her.
Elizabeth still looks very sad in her eyes. And her face is a bit pale and flush from so
much crying the last few days. But I believe
in time she and Melissa will bond even more and be so good for each other. They will form a good relationship and bond. Just like Elizabeth had with Cookie.
It has been such a hard two days for all of us. It makes me think of how wonderful heaven
will be with no tears or sickness only joy and eternity with God.
Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there
shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any
more pain: for the former things are passed away.
May the joy of the Lord be your strength today and always,
susan
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