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I am a second child.  My brother has tons more childhood pictures than I do.  My mom had a baby book for each of us. My brother's is filled out in great detail...mine, well, there is a one liner about the fact that I was born and that is where my mom lost interest I think.  So I swore I would never do that to my second child.  Turns out human children weren't in the cards for me so my first "child" was Murphy. I have a lock of his hair, I have several of his baby teeth, I have a photo album…

I watch the adoptable dogs scrolling by on the front page almost every day.  From time to time, I dream about getting a third dog and I’m always on the look out for the perfect dog for our family.  Recently, when I asked family members to “guess what we got?” after we got our pontoon boat, every single one guessed first, “another dog.” Usually, we don’t meet the requirements.  We don’t have young kids and we do have a physical fence, but almost always the ad says, “would do great in a home…

Nope! not talking about music!

Not talking about investments either...

I’m talking about my:

“City Doodle"…

Most of you know Stuart's story - born in a puppy mill - how we adopted him from a rescue organization in Atlanta, how sick he was when we got him at 8 weeks.  Oh the stories I told about the Coccidia & Giardia - with the poop catching paper plates and rubber gloves.  I shudder to think back to the days when Stuart's body emanated an odor so repulsive to me that I cried, thinking I had made a mistake.  (We continue…

Hi,

Am so proud of Paz.  His amazing work as therapy dog assisting childen who have witnessed domestic violence is featured in a major nyc daily publication.  In the online version, his picture does not appear, however, in the actual publication there is a picture of him.…

Remember “Doodle Day?”

Well during all that “happy chaos”, I did manage to sneek the boys back to the photo shoot area and have their pictures taken while playing hostess for the boys.

I love the photos and as promised, I wanted to share them with you. MAkya REnee TAylor  (take the first two letters from her full name) from MARETA CREATIONS truly captured some beautiful expressions of all her…

On Saturday, my husband, daughter, Fudge and Vern, and I set out for a day of adventure on our Pontoon boat.  We had no idea what was in store for us.  I never embellish on my blogs, so I want to be perfectly clear that in this story the high seas was really just a lake near our home, but Rescue on the Lake just doesn’t have the same pizzazz as Rescue on the High Seas. …

Another fun-filled day at the Bangkok Triathlon yesterday. Chewie and I went along to support DH as usual.

Here's Chewie at the Start/Finish line. He's entered in the Canine 1-2 years category.

Check out Chewie in his triathlon gear. Ready to swim,…

So just got back from a very long day. I had really great results!!!!! My numbers are all good. My Dr. wants to see me in 6 months. I can handle that. One step at a time. Yeah!!! Thanks for all your wonderful wishes thoughts and prayers. They worked. <3 <3 :)

So many of you know I have been battling leukemia. I go every 6 months to see if I am still in remission. One year ago on June 8th I was finally told remission. Again in Dec. I was still in remission. It is that time again.…

Today I brought home my first short-term foster baby for DRC.  His name is Baxter and he is 16 weeks old.  He is chalk in color, has a silky soft fleece coat, a black nose and he is a first generation Goldendoodle.  I will only have him temporarily, as I am flying to California in a few weeks, but I wanted you all to  start filling out your applications!!  Right now he is in North Carolina, but he may be heading North soon.  Now, here are the first shots of this adorable Dood.  He is aprox.…

Next week is going to be super busy.... Doctors appointments, bringing Jack to my moms house and then I am off again... We leave for the Cleveland Clinic on Thursday for a Friday appointment and testing.

We are hoping to get all the testing done in one day... Not sure if they can or not, if not we will be at the hotel over the weekend and do the rest of the testing on Monday.

June 15th is the planned stop date of my IV antibiotics... I started IV antibiotics in…

Apparently, my dogs are spoiled.  My sister-in-law was here from Tennessee last weekend and said it quite frequently.  It started when we went out to dinner the first night she was here.  Our ritual when we leave the house is to put out peanut butter for Fudge and Vern, turn on a fan, and leave the TV on for them.  My daughter usually gets the peanut butter for the dogs and has a tendency to give them more than the recommended serving size.  Of course, on this day she served up her usual…

There are many things here on earth I consider “special treats” in my life, these are just a few (in no particular order):

• A leisure weekend with my husband and the boys

• A hot cup of coffee and interesting conversation from my favorite Starbucks

• Time at the beach with the two legged kids

• A great pedicure

• Chilled red…

Just wanted to wish a very happy 4th birthday to my beautiful boy, Blaze!

I love you, bug! :-)

I know last summer I had mentioned that my mother was ill and many people here supported me with comments and prayers.

My mother passed away this past Saturday, May 26th after suffering for over 2 years. I know she is in peace now but it is still difficult for me to think of her not being here. I just keep thinking about all the things she will miss, like my sister's wedding...meeting any grandchildren...etc. 

She had started to go more downhill right before my wedding on May…

He's a SNICKER-DOODLE!!

Before any of you think we're totally crazy, we know that there's no such thing as a "Snicker-doodle" but we think this classification fits him…

So, after giving Cooper a substantial hair cut a month ago, I decided to give her another one. I had not realized just how hot the summer here in Ontario will be (im used to cool Vancouver and British summers). its not even June and we are having plus 30 degrees C weather...

I have got used to Cooper being shorter (I do love her long fur) and have seem so many cute photos of very short doodles, so thought id go for it! I still cant bring myself to shave her, but she is 1 inch…

The teenagers are home today.

Somehow that always puts me in mind of Paul Revere's Ride and want to shout, "The Teenagers are Coming! The Teenagers are Coming!" While generally they are pleasant lads... they do come with some baggage...mainly in the way of noisiness, large quantities of food consumption and messes.

Truthfully though, I enjoy having my kids home and actually look forward to their days off from school.  I am as excited about the countdown to summer vacation as…

I dropped Winston off at the groomer's today ... he was gettin a little overgrown...

BUT, when I went to pick him up, he was nowhere to be seen!

So they gave me this…