Its the First!

It is the first day of a new month - already! Time flies so quickly in life. I cannot believe that my baby will be 6 years old this month. She is beside herself having to WAIT for her birthday party.

So many things have transpired over the month of January. I have been struggling with 2 herniated disks and resulting pain and Boogie has injured himself as well. So we have both been taking pain meds and being miserable. Its hard to watch a pet suffer.. he lays there holding his leg up and looks at me with those pleading eyes.. and I can't do a darn thing for him except keep feeding him his pills. Its miserable really. We don't know how Boogie injured himself, he just came up lame. And his pain has the doctors stumped as to what exactly his injury is. Which of course means vet bills.

On the other spectrum.. Buddy our big dog jumped a fence and caught his leg on it. He hung upside down screaming so loud that all dogs in range where howling, our neighbors pigs where squealing and neighbors where coming out of their houses. Meanwhile we are trying to figure out how to get our screaming, biting and thrashing dog off the fence. DRAMA!
So finally we just fling him off to avoid further injury to him and less of a chance of our getting bit by a desperate dog. He hit the ground, rolled and popped up... limped a bit, shook it off and ran up to apologize for trying to bite us. He had a large hole in his leg where he snagged himself. All sorts of images roam through your head at moments like this.. surgery, amputation, how bad is it ??? After a conversation with the vet, he determined we could treat Buddy at home. I gave him a shot of Penicillin and we treated the hole with yellow wound medicine. He is fine.. barely limped more than a day.

Good stuff has happened as well! Tylea has been nominated by her teachers to be put into the Gifted and Talented program at her school.. She is one of 3 children in Kindergarten to get this honor. As you can imagine.. we are very please and most proud. I only hope she thinks its fun when her learning becomes challenging. Its all been so easy for her until now and if she can't make the best grade or be first to do it.. then she gets defeated. BUT on the other hand.. she will get bored if she stays where she is now. Something to pray about and see how it goes.

I wish life would slow down a bit but I also can't wait to see what will happen next!