It has been almost a year since we lost our dear old
Molly. I think about her often. I don't think we ever really realized what a big part of the family was until she was gone. Sometimes I think I hear her, breathing heavily as she did in her senior years; or stepping onto the front porch. {She sounded like a person because she weighed as much as a small adult human!} I was never afraid of intruders - she never would have allowed one! Her bark was definitely worse than her bite. She was very cautious about men. Grown men would refuse to leave their trucks when she stuck her nose up toward the driver's window. She hated the garbage man. Think about it, 1) a man 2) stopping by our house during the day when her kids were playing right there in the yard 3) taking away something that "belonged" to us! I have to laugh when I remember his face!
One sunny morning when I was having my morning prayer time... something triggered a memory. I don't remember what it was, but I shed a little tear, thinking about Molly. So I prayed...
"Lord, You know we want another dog. You know we have tried to get a puppy and it just never worked out. I ask You to bring us the right dog at the right time... and with a shock collar... all for free." Looking back, part of me believed it was just too much to ask. But not too much for our God!
A week or so later,
Tyler came home from work and asked what we would think of taking in a 1-year old American bulldog. {Ummm, a bulldog? I was thinking more like German Shepherd.} His friend at work had her as a house dog and couldn't keep her any longer. She had outgrown the house and was bored there. She was chewing up everything in sight! He couldn't keep her in the backyard because she could jump the fence! We agreed to adopt her.
Meet Lucy!
{Shock caller and everything!}
She came to us on Memorial Day! She is sooo sweet, and loves the country. She hasn't destroyed anything since she's been here, she is having too much fun following all these kids around! She has had to adjust to not being allowed in the house, that was tough at first, but she is learning. She especially didn't like the day it rained off and on all day!
The cats aren't thrilled with her, but they have "put her in her place" a few times. Today she killed a raccoon! That was funny to me since Molly {the brave dog that she was} was scared to death of raccoons! LOL
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Leah's birthday was Saturday. She turned THREE!! {Wow! Where does the time go?} Two months before her birthday we started asking what she wanted for her birthday. And do you know what she said? Get this... A Christmas tree!! That's right, she never got over us taking the Christmas tree down in January!
So I told
Jordyn. I knew the garage saling queen would come through for us on this one! Sure enough, someone a friend found a
PURPLE CHRISTMAS TREE at a garage sale for $.25! So Leah got just what she wanted for her birthday. Jordyn decorated it with water balloon "Christmas balls" and a "Happy Birthday Leah" garland! She loves it!!
