Where We Are

If you didn’t already notice there is no give away this week. Or anything this week really. The only reason I’m posting today is because I feel like I should post SOMETHING.

On Tuesday we had to make the hardest decision ever. It started with a scheduled vet exam for Rik and ended with us leaving the vet without him. We knew it was getting close to his time but still…you can ‘prepare’ for that day for as long as you want and it doesn’t make it ANY easier.

I’ve gone through this with pets before but Rik wasn’t just a pet. He had something really special with Thomas and I’m just glad he was able to spend as long as he did with us. With Thomas. Right where he needed to be.

It’s been sad around here this week and every time it starts to get better something else reminds us that he’s really not here any more.

And throw the fact that Timmy and I both have the death on top of it all. No good. We’re sick, sad, grumpy, achy, and very uninspired. I haven’t taken any pictures since Tuesday before we went into the vet’s office and I can’t bring myself to load them to the computer.  As much as I complained about the amount of dog hair I had to vacuum every day or his constant licking at night or the fact that I had to cover my kitchen in rugs that don’t match so he wouldn’t slip and fall (which he still managed to do on the 2 feet of open tile)…I loved that darn dog.

So…that’s where we are this week. Hopefully soon enough we will snap out of this funk and join the living again. I have pictures from Layla’s valentine’s day party at school and the birthday party over the weekend all loaded to Flickr just waiting to be posted. Monday L’s Girl Scout troop is going to the local ice cream shop to make ice cream using some of their girl scout cookies. I really want to take/post pictures of that so lets hope I can get caught up by then!