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April 20, 2011

Winston

big news in the Dillon family... we've grown! we fell in love with a pound puppy named Winston and brought him home yesterday.


we have been thinking of adding another dog for quite a while, so when a local furniture store had a free adoption event we couldn't resist.

now, i knew adding another dog would be hard. it meant lots of training, habit correcting, more food, more vet bills, more time, more space, etc. i also knew it would be an adjustment for the whole family, but i had no idea how hard it would be for me to watch daphne during this transition.

now, daphne has been with us for almost three years and we raised her from a very small puppy. needless to say, she is our furry baby. i knew that it would be hard for me to share my heart with another dog. the biggest surprise has been how emotional i have gotten. when winston took daphne's normal spot by the couch i got all teary eyed. watching him take a toy away from her got me all choked up. having her turn away from my affection was the worst. i've already had a crying emotional breakdown and we are on day 2.

daphne has never been an agressive dog and has always been shy/timid, but when we're at home alone with her the personality comes out. she is fun loving and playful and sweet. with winston here, she's been much more reserved and i miss my sweet girl. they say you're supposed to let the dogs work out their relationship and not choose the "dominant" dog, but i so badly want to jump to daphne's defense. i want to give the toy's back to her, kick winston out of "her" spot, and make him respect her. mostly because she's had the place of honor in our house for so long.

i'm hoping that this is just transitional, but am fearful that i will lose some of my favorite daphne-isms.

only time will tell...

April 04, 2011

taxes.

recently a friend of mine told me that her dad used to tax her allowance when she was little. she called it his "propaganda". i call it genius. every time that she would get allowance her dad would take part of it and tell her what he was going to go spend it on. i think i will be doing that to our children. that way, when they grow up and the goverment takes lots of their money to spend it on whatever they feel like, including giving lots of it to people who don't appreciate it, our children will be fully prepared.

unlike me. who cringes at every paycheck. who watches her hard earned dollars getting picked at all year only to get to the end of the year and desperately hope that they decide that she deserves to get some of it back. harrumph.