I am still waiting for the recession. You may recall last week that we bought a new car(or so we thought). Monday night we found out that the car we purchased on Sunday was sold to someone else on Sunday. We never even heard from the dealership until Monday night at 930pm that our car was no longer available. And the dealer waited a day or so to get back with us on updated deals and to ask if we were still interested in buying another car. Guess the auto industry is doing better than we thought!
Then we decided to buy a puppy. Tom and Scott have been searching the pounds for months for the perfect puppy. Unfortunately, Tom has such bad allergies, he really couldn't find anything that fit his needs(for breathing!). Guess he wasn't too interested in a pit bull for the family either since that seems to be the most popular pound puppy these days. So after seeing a vet highlighting a hypoallergenic type dog on the news, I decided to investigate further. The adorable muppet creature turned out to be a Cavachon(never had heard of it). But these days they are mating everything with poodles and other small dogs, and it all seems to be for people with bad dog allergies. After a bit of investigating, I finally convinced Tom that this was the dog for our family. And so on Friday, Tom and I headed to PA and visited several mennonite kennels and farms hunting for the right puppy. We found a cutie little girl that the kids named Cookie(I thought Latte would work!).
So far it is just like when we brought baby Allison and Scott home from the hospital-noone gets any sleep since the new "baby" cries all night; she needs fed, watered and toileted every 2-3hrs and she sleeps, sleeps, sleeps-but just during the day-on top of any human. And don't put her down cause she'll cry if you ignore her(not really). She is in love with all of us and the feeling is mutual. But our cat Pika is not too convinced this is a good addition to the family!
Tom was home this week but will be off traveling next week to Boston and Detroit. He had to have emergency dental work for a cracked tooth last week-almost 3hrs in the dental chair. I never even knew a dentist office would stay open past 5pm.
Tom and Scott did a fabulous presentation at Scott's cub scout meeting on Monday. We were studying "Flight" so scott and Tom talked about hot air balloons. scott presented his research that he did during the Science fair in the spring. Then Tom demonstrated a hot air balloon in the garage with a propane camping stove and a big plastic trash bag. The boys loved seeing the balloon float up into the garage rafters.
On Saturday, the two of them participated in the cub Scout Klondike Derby-lots of outdoor activities in the park with an Alaskan theme. In the evening, we all celebrated the boys advancement to Wolf Cubs at the Blue and Gold cub Scout banquet. My Girl Scouts helped by serving the dinner. And each year there is a cake baking contest with different themes focusing on different Scout activities. Scott has won the last two years and he won again this year for best Camping theme. Alaska was also our banquet theme so Scott made an igloo cake with a dog sled and won for Camping in Alaska. The cakes are always a real fun treat(also tasty) but it is amazing to see how creative everyone is. There was a very good husky dog cake, and a large puffin-boo to the people who added penguins. No penguins in Alaska. My favorite was a large bust of Sarah Palin-complete with eyeglasses. It won for funniest. And the kids loved trying the sugar cube igloo since they never tasted one before(they don't get out much!). I then ended up with a housefull of kids and parents visiting the new puppy. Allison is already becoming a strong member of our neighborhood's dog club. Our yard is becoming very popular.
Our weather was spring like this weekend so everyone was out. We had a busy day today since Allison had to altar serve at the 9am mass, and the kids went to the bowling event for our school in the afternoon. I was lucky enough to chaperone a lane of 6 boys(thank goodness 2 did not show up!).
Allison spent the weekend puppy sitting, but also enjoyed going to the Middle School dance on Friday night while we had drinks with our neighbors and talked puppy care.
so we will let you know if I survive the week. Now I have an extra child and Tom is off traveling.
Have a great trip to England Mark! Dan we enjoyed the video clip. I will have to get Tom and Allison to add a video to my blog(but it was actually me who picked out the twins videocameras
-Tom was just the inspiration with Allison's suggestion). I also bought one for Nicholas.
Wish us all luck this week!
Kathleen