What a Week!

Well, our mama has made the move to an assisted living home and boy was it a rough and busy week! First of all, on Monday afternoon, her sitter quit on us, so we were frantically trying to figure out who was going to stay with her for the few days until we moved her. (We knew we were moving her on Friday of last week.) Well, the director of the home said that we could move her on Thursday, but a few things would not be ready, such as the cabinets being refaced and a deadbolt on the door. I immediately made plans to be off Thursday to start packing her up. One of my brothers had the flu and another one was out of town. So the two that were in town were planning on coming on their lunch hr. to move what little furniture she would need to fit in her studio apartment. I get an email on Wednesday from my sweet sister in law, Tammy, saying that she would take off and help me if I needed help. I was so thankful for her that day, I really don't think I could've done it without her! She took Mama to get her hair done while I went on to P.C. to finish up on paper work I needed to do. And she packed up two or three boxes of mama's things when they got back from the beauty shop. When I got back, the boys were there to load up the furniture, so Tammy and I took the things already boxed up out there to see what else we would need to take when we went back to get mama. We ended up spending more time than we thought we would, so she went to WalMart to buy some of the things on our list and I went to Corley's to turn in all of mama's meds so they could package them up for P.C. and to get us all some lunch. When I got to mama's, we ate and waited on Tammy to get back from WalMart and I packed all of mama's clothes to take with us.
When Tammy got back and finished eating, we loaded mama in the car and headed out to her new home. As we walked in sitting on the sofa visiting, was Jean Patton and Mrs. Marion Davis (a resident) so we told mama to just sit right there so that Tammy and I could go in her room and get it all fixed up for her before she went in. We had lots of pictures to hang, shower curtain to put up, etc. When we were finally done, we called her in and it was like Christmas to her. She was so excited and couldn't say enough about how good everything looked! We stayed with her for about an hour after that. Tammy left first, then about 15 minutes later, I decided it was time for me to leave. (I believe it was one of the hardest things I have ever done!!) I bent down beside her to say a prayer over her before I left. As I began to pray, I lost it and couldn't say a word. Well, my sweet, sweet mama just took over and said the sweetest prayer over ME, asking the Lord to give me the strength to let go and allow Him to look after her!! I will hold that precious moment in my heart forever!!
Well, I have been out there everyday since Thursday, and everytime I see her, she is smiling and laughing and having a good time. I know we made the right decision in doing this. It was just one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. The only snafu we have run into so far is that at first we took a twin bed because her room is so small. Well she slept on it Thursday night with no problems, but she said she almost fell out of it on Friday night!! So, Joel and Josh (his soon to be son-in-law), changed out the twin bed with a full size bed. She slept like a baby last night, she said!!

Granny Overboard!!

This was a day I wish all of my friends had been with me as Mike and I were launching our Bass Tracker for a boat ride on the lake this beautiful Saturday afternoon!!! It would've been a day for free comic relief!! As always, Mike backs the boat in, I scoot over into the driver's seat to pull the trailor out of the water and go park the truck/trailor in the parking lot while Mike is cranking up the boat and heading over to the dock to wait for me to get on board. Well, normally all goes well and good and within a few minutes we are cruising along with the wind in our hair and the water spraying on either side of the boat. However, today it took us a little longer to get to that point, because what does mama do??? As I was putting my foot on the side of the boat to climb in, for some reason as I stepped on the boat with my right foot, the boat began to float to the right and instead of me leaning to the right, I leaned to the left, and, you got it, I ended up going all the way under the water!! While I was under for the millisecond I was, I was thinking, okay, I have Mike's truck keys in my pocket, my phone in the other pocket, my good Clark's flip flops on, a bottle of water in my left hand, and our binoculars in my right hand. AND a frozen shoulder, to boot!!! I kept thinking if I can just get a hold of the dock and throw these things in my hands up there, then I can make sure the keys and my phone don't fall out!! Mike said when I came up I looked petrified, so he started worrying that I might panic and drown. Does he throw me a life jacket?? NO!!! He keeps saying pull up on the dock. I try and then a sharp pain hits me in my right arm, and I remember, my FROZEN shoulder!!! Then I did start to panic!! Mike calmly inches the boat over to me, and tries to pull me up over the side of the boat. He gets me to where my armpits are hanging in the boat, but the rest of me is floating in the water!! By this time, I am laughing my head off, thinking how silly I know I look!!! He is frantically telling me to stop laughing and says I have to help him help me get me in the boat. Finally after a little more adjusting, I'm in and so grateful that I didn't pull anything out of kilter on my body!! Of course, by tomorrow, who knows how my body, and Mike's body, will feel!!! Needless to say, I laughed the whole time we were riding around thinking about how ridiculous we must have looked!! Oh, did I mention that a student I used to teach was in a boat that was launching right after us. I wonder if he saw his fifth grade teacher making a big fool of herself???

Locusts

I don't know if any of this has any significance or not, but I have had a weekend filled with grasshoppers!! Mike and I went to Lenox Square yesterday to do a little shopping and to eat at Great Wraps, because Mike loves their gyros. So, since I am trying to do the diet thingy, I decided to order a gorgonzola (??) and walnut salad from Sbarro's. Looked delicious and even tasted delicious until I almost put a dead grasshopper in my mouth!! Yes, it was a GRASSHOPPER!!!!! A cousin of the locust!!! Needless to say, my appetite was lost and I didn't finish my dinner. Thought I was going to lose the supper right there in the mall. However, I didn't and I also didn't take it back to Sbarro's to show them what they so generously served me in my salad. I probably should have, barring the fact that I might have contracted food poisoning and died and someone could have sued the crap out of them!! But, by the grace of God, I am alive and well today!! Speaking of His grace... When we got home, I got ready for bed and snuggled up with some wonderful reading from Sharon's devotionals and low and behold, what was the topic? The story of the locusts coming and destroying Judah in the book of Joel!! We went to Crossroads in Newnan this morning and what was the message on? The book of Joel and the year the of locusts!! Hmmm... what are you trying to get my attention about, Lord??

Hallelujia! He is Risen!!

Happy Easter to everyone. Hope all is well with you. How could it not be when we serve a risen Lord and Savior??
Thank you, Jesus, for all you have done for us and are doing through us. You are our Living Hope and our High Priest who is sitting at the right hand of our Heavenly Father, interceding on our behalf!! What a precious thought that is. Through the power of your resurrection, you saved us from an eternal death and we have the hope to which we cling to. That we will live with you forever and forever. Oh how I love you!!!

A Break in the Keys

I am sitting on the balcony of my hotel room in Key West, Fl. Mike and I arrived on Saturday around 5 p.m. It was a long and arduous drive, but we made it!! Didn't hit any traffic jams until we got to Key Largo, which is the first Key you come to when you hit Highway 1. That took about an hour to get through that small town, then we came to Islamorado and were stuck for about another hour. And it's not like there is another route to take to scoot around the jam. There is only one way in and one way out!! Needless to say, after 13 hours of driving and riding in a car, we were wound up pretty tight. But, we finally reached our destination, but did come to an amiable decision that, if we come back next year, we will spend the night in Miami, as we did last year and hopefully bypass all the hoopla.

For two days this has how our vacation has been. Get up around 6:30; watch the sunrise, (a beautiful one, at that!); eat a light breakfast of cereal and a banana; walk for about an hour along the ocean; lay out by the pool and read or listen to music on the ipod, (of course, I am doing this by myself while Mike is sitting on the balcony of the hotel room soaking in the views of the ocean!); eating a little lunch (we went to Publix and bought sandwich stuff and it was yummy. Beats paying $40 for a lunch that was half edible!); take a short snooze (when you're our age, a nap is the highlight of the day!); then go downtown and walk around until dinner time and eat a delicious meal (our dinners have been absolutely wonderful every night!); and lastly we go down to Mallory Square and watch the most beautiful sunset that God created. I know that a sunset is a sunset no matter where you are, but there is something special about being at the southern most point in the U.S. and watching the sun go to sleep just over the horizon while thousands of people are witnessing God's miraculous handiwork before their very eyes. What is sad, is that half of the people don't even realize it, or for that matter, don't even realize where they are at the moment!!!

We have been happily greeted every morning by a rooster we've dubbed "Little Jerry" who crows merrily along the yard right outside our room to let us know it is time to "get up people and get moving!!!" The island is full of roosters and hens and their baby chicks. It gives this place it's character. The first time we came, we couldn't get over how on every street corner or in just about every yard, there were roosters and hens everywhere. But, come to find out, that's just indicative of the area. Miami is also a home to the cute little poultry. I must say, our "Little Jerry" is quite an impressive, colorful bird.

Guess I better run. It is time to go eat my cereal so I can start my routine all over again today.

Boy, what a life!!

Overwhelmed

On Sunday, March 15, 2009, at 1:15 in the wee hours of the morning, the Lord called my daddy home. He went peacefully with John and Jay my two youngest brothers by his side. The last two and a half weeks have seemed like a blur, and still do, however, I will never, ever forget the precious moments we got to spend with my daddy when we finally moved him to hospice. I will share those moments later on when I'm not so tired, but just wanted to say how overwhelmed our family has been by the outpouring of love from our friends and family, and also the community in which my daddy served selflessly. So many people that I had never seen came up to me at the visitation and told me stories of my daddy's unselfish acts of kindness to them. I always knew when he would get up in the middle of night to go to the drugstore to get medicine for someone, and not only that, he would deliver it to their house so they wouldn't have to get out with a sick child. But I never realized the impact that simple act of kindness would have on so many people this many years later. He would have still been doing that up to the moment he died, if it had not been for my mother's illness which required him to retire at an "early" age of 72, to look after her. His sacrificial, unconditional love for my mama is the perfect picture of Christ's love for His church. When I think of my earthly daddy, it isn't hard to picture what my Heavenly Daddy's (Abba, Father) character is like. It is a neverending, unconditional love that is faithful to the end. I thank my Father in heaven for my sweet, sweet earthly father he blessed me with for 55 years. Oh how I will miss him, but the memories we have of him will live on forever.

What a Difference

Since Monday, things have been up and down. Yesterday morning, Dr. Ingram walked in his room and just hung his head and seemed so sad that daddy isn't getting better. He said we really need to think about putting the feeding tube in. I had just pulled in the parking lot at school, and Jay called telling me the news. We decided that we probably all needed to meet with Dr. Horlander as soon as we could, to see what the other alternatives were, and to see what the outlook is. We have been wondering about feeding him through his permanent IV, which would be less invasive than a feeding tube, however, all the drs. agree that a TBN (that's what it's called) would be very bad on the kidneys and also there is a very high risk of a blood infection, which daddy would not survive. Dr. H. also spoke with us about the plans for resuscitation if the possibility arose. He was so kind in explaining everything to us. Dr. A (Ingram's partner) came in and was very concerned about daddy's confusion and checked his meds to see if anything could be causing that. He decided to dialyze him again to see if that would help. Daddy is very congested. When he breathes it sounds like a kitten purring. I asked Dr. A to rate daddy's condition on a scale from 1-10 and he pulled us all out in the hall and was very straight forward with us and told us it wasn't good. He said that we would see if daddy got any stronger by getting the nutrition he needs with the feeding tube for a few days, and if he doesn't, then we would look at moving him to hospice. We are all at peace with that. We don't want to see him struggle anymore, if he isn't going to get any better.
When the nurse tried to put the tube in, he pulled it out. This happened three times! He begged her not to put it in and told her he would pay her not to!!! I think he is just so tired of all the poking and prodding they are doing to him and he just wants to have rest and peace. While the nurse was trying to insert the tube, he was hollering that he wanted Tommy (Whitworth)!! About 15 minutes later, who walks in? Tommy!!! No one in the family had even called him, and he shows up!!
He dialyzed yesterday for the full 2 1/2 hours without any incidences so that was a plus, however, he still is very congested. I got to spend all day with him and we "filled prescriptions"! He did eat a little solid food yesterday. About 4 bites of a grilled chicken strip from Jim Bob's and a few bites of creamed potatoes. He drank 2 nutritional shakes during the day. He's probably thinking he better at least try to eat something, or that nurse is going to start poking on him again!!

Praise the Lord!

Well today is a very different story from Saturday and yesterday. The dr. said that the lung is not as congested as it has been and the dialysis seems to be working. So the plan today is to dialyze him and put him in a room on the 6th floor!! I really feel like a change of scenery for daddy will do him good. They are also going to start giving him nutritional shakes to try and build up his strength since he hasn't been eating so well. Yesterday when I left, I was very down, thinking he was giving up. But today, I feel like, with a change of venue, he will at least have a little hope about himself!!! I was so afraid he was ready to throw in the towel. He tried to get me to take him home last night. It was so hard to leave him like that.
Job 6: 8 - "Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for.

Postscript: I took mama by the hospital when I got off work to see daddy. It seems we have a small setback. He wasn't able to do the full dialysis because his blood pressure dropped, so they aren't moving him to a regular room today. Dr. Brennan told one of my brothers that his heart muscles are working too hard so he wanted to give daddy some medicine to slow those muscles down and try to make his defribilator kick in so his heart doesn't have to work so hard. The problem with this is his blood pressure will drop so they have to watch him closely. So that's where we are right now. Mama had only been there for about 45minutes, when out of a deep sleep, he woke up and said, "Nancy take her home so she can get some rest." When I bent over to kiss him good night, he said, "Thank you for taking care of her." He loves her so much and it is so hard for him not to be able to provide the care he has given her for 58 years!!
Also today, we found out he'd rather have his sons staying with him than anybody else. He specifically asked for two of them this afternoon, so we had to find one to go sit with him!! I guess I know my place!!!

John spent the night with daddy last night. Just talked to him and he said he had a fairly restful night. Dr. Ingram came in for his early rounds this morning and told daddy that they weren't going to do anything to him today. His job was to rest and eat today. Hopefully, we can find him something to eat that he likes and will gobble it up! John said he did eat two fruit cups this morning when he woke up. So that is a good sign. I spent the night with mama last night. Didn't sleep much, worried about next week and going back to work. She is really my main concern because I know that daddy is being taken care of. However, we are having a difficult time weaning ourselves from someone being at the hospital with him around the clock. He won't call the nurse when he is hurting unless we are in there with him. Even on his sick bed he doesn't want to be a bother to anyone. He has always taken care of everybody else!! Anyway, back to last night with mama. I stayed awake most of the night running next week through my mind about what to do about me going back to work. I am having a really hard time with that, because I feel like she really needs me. We can't leave her alone for any long length of time, because she gets so disoriented, and I'm afraid she will get confused and do something to hurt herself. We are all meeting today to discuss the schedule for next week. Around 6:30 this morning I could hear her in her bed sniffling and then just crying. I walked over to her room and asked what was wrong, and she said, "I just miss him so much." If ever there were two people who truly are soul mates, those two take the prize!!! We have been truly blessed to have been the children of two such precious people!!

I am sitting in my daddy's hospital room watching my sweet mama sitting by his bedside holding his hand and just watching him sleep. Oh what a love they share!! He is squeezing her hand and she is smiling at him.
The dr. regulated his defibrilator last night so his heart rate is better. We learned the other plan from Dr. H today. He said that he can go in with a syringe and poke around that sack of fluid (which is the consistency of leather instead of jello!) and try to pull some of it off that way. There is a 35% chance that he can puncture his lung, so the procedure is risky. We are all going to discuss this and decide what we feel is best for daddy. I feel like he is alert enough to know what is going on, so we are going to ask him what he wants. He dialyzed again today for around 4 hrs. He has been dialyzed 4 days in a row so he is so tired.
He did eat some last night which I was very thankful for. He said this morning that he might eat some chicken and rice after dialysis, so mama and I went back to her house to make it and brought it to him while ago. He isn't feeling to0 well right now so we are just letting him sleep. He keeps saying that his back and his leg hurts. The nurses have moved him around in his bed several times to try and get him comfortable. This last time was a charm. He is sawing some logs right now!!

Daddy had a pretty tough day. They put a perma cath in for his dialysis this morning and then took him to the cancer clinic to insert the chest tube to try and get some of that fluid off his lungs that dialysis isn't pulling off. They brought him back and said they couldn't do it because there were too many small pockets of fluid and it wouldn't do any good because the tube would only draw fluid from the point of insertion. The dr. explained to us that the fluid is a jello consistency. I kind of pictured it like if you put a straw in jello, the only portion that would be drawn out is where the straw went in. Anyway, needless to say we were pretty devastated. The transporter who brought him back to the room said that the dr. has another plan but when I left around 5:00 we had not seen him so don't know yet what that plan is. They did manage to dialyze the sweet thing for four hours this afternoon and he slept and rested better than he has since being in the hospital. He is worn slap out. Buddy just called and said he was able to eat a few bites of his dinner, which is a huge praise, because he has eaten little of nothing since last Friday. For those of you who may read this, please continue to keep him in your prayers, as well as my mama. She is holding up, but I can tell it is taking a toll on her. She has been a champ!!!

Lamentations 3:22-25 Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him.

Whirlwind Week

Wow! What a week it has been! Daddy was admitted to the hospital on Friday, February 27 with congestive heart failure. His lungs were filled up with fluid and he was having trouble breathing, so they admitted him on sixth floor. They ran all sorts of tests and put him through the ringer, so to speak! The plan was to do a procedure (don't know the medical name), but they would go down his throat with a light and look behind his heart to see if there were any bloodclots or blockages so that they could shock him and get his heart rate back to as normal as possible for an 81 year old man with a defribrilator. In the meantime, they did a scan of his lungs and veins and arteries and found there were several blood clots in his legs and lungs. Needless to say, they were more worried about that than his heart at this point. On Monday, his dr. decided that he needed to go on dialysis, since his kidneys were shutting down and his heart wasn't working properly, therefore, not emptying the fluid in his lungs. So, the plan was to put a temporary dialysis shunt in his neck, and then to do the original EKG scope thing down his throat and then to do the shock. The temporary shunt insertion went without any problems. When they finished there, they took him to the heart clinic to do the heart thing, and he had a reaction to the anesthesia and they had to reverse that to bring him back around. They immediately took him to dialyze and before they even got him hooked up to the machine, his blood pressure bottomed out, so he ended up in ICU. (They did finally insert a filter in his groin area to catch the bloodclots before making it to his heart on Wednesday. They also said, that sometime, they can't exactly pinpoint when it was, that he has had a mild heart attack.) From there we have been on a major roller coaster ride, thinking one day, this would be his last day on earth, to seeing him bright eyed and actually responding to us. Today, is one of those days we are climbing up that steep, steep hill. We are truly encouraged by his drs. that he is making progress, however small the steps may be. He just got back from having a permanent dialysis shunt put in and then they will do dialysis to see if they can pull some more of that thick fluid off of his lungs. Next, they will insert the tube into his chest wall to try to pull more of that fluid off, if the dialysis doesn't seem to be pulling it off. I just pray today that all that thick fluid will become more liquid so he won't have to go through another invasive procedure. He is really worn out.

Pop

My daddy hasn't felt well lately. He is battling with congestive heart failure, a horrible pain on his right chest wall, not to mention, he is being treated for some lesions on the opening of his espohagus, which makes eating not a pleasant experience. He has lost so much weight since fall so he has been seeing a gastrointerologist, a pulmonary dr., a nephralogist, and a coronary dr. He is in borderline renal failure. All this to say, that even though he is battling with all of these illnesses, he is still wanting to be the soul provider for our mama. I know it has to be hard to surrender everything you have always done to allow someone else to take your place and I can understand how he must feel. I think this morning he finally came to grips with this and is allowing Joel to take him to the er so we can have rest in knowing what is causing all of the pain he is experiencing. He even allowed Joel to crank up the oxygen tank so he wasn't so labored in his breathing. AND, he allowed me to wheel him in a wheelchair on Thursday at Clark Holder Clinic when we went to see the dr!!! That was the straw that broke the camel's back!!! I knew then and there that he was a sick little man!! All of this to say and ask for anyone who reads this to please pray for my daddy. That the drs. will be able to find the source of the pain in his chest, and that they will not just run tests and send him home, like they did two weeks ago when we took him. We are going to request that he be referred to Crawford Long, where his defibrilator was put in, so they can rule out any problems there. Also, please ask God to give daddy rest and peace in knowing that his children will take care of his "sweetie" while he is away from her. He loves that little woman so much!! Thank you so much for your prayers.

Sharon

I attended the funeral a true saint today. She planned the service and, as I sat in the church, it was almost as if she were preaching it herself. Every scripture that was read and every song that was sung, I could picture Sharon, herself, delivering the Word of God with such confidence and expression and singing with that sweet, sweet smile she always had on her face and her eyes closed as if singing only to her Savior, Jesus Christ. And then I realized she was singing, but not in that church, she was singing in the PRESENCE of her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!! Oh, how we will miss her, but she left a legacy that will live on forever in her husband, her children, her family, and the women whose lives she so sweetly touched in Explorer's Bible Study. I will be forever grateful to her for all she has taught me and I pray that I can have the same kind of hunger she had for knowing the Lord and growing in the knowledge and wisdom of our Savior. I will miss you, sweet, Sharon, and I will pray daily for your sweet family that the Lord will give them exactly what they need for each day as they begin the grieving process at the loss of such a gracious and loving wife, mother, daughter, and friend.

Cold!!

There is definitely one thing in this world that I loathe at my age. I was just wondering if I am the only one who can't stand the cold??? Not only are my hands, feet, nose, and every other body part exposed to the elements, freezing, but my old bones are shaking, as well!! Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night and could not, for the love of chocolate, go back to sleep, because I was shivering so bad. No matter how much I tried to scoot up close to hubby, and even with the covers wrapped tight up around my head so that only a tiny air pocket kept me from suffocating, I still could not get warm. So of course, there I lay, thinking, you idiot, get up and turn up the heat, (hubby likes to keep it at a cool 66 degrees at night!!!), but I was dreading getting out of bed to walk across the house to turn up the thermostat!!! Needless to say, I spent several hours in my bed shivering and wrapping up further and further in the covers, when all I had to do was to get up and walk a few feet to fix the problem!! Of course, as I was awake, those nighttime thoughts, begin to take over and, boom, I 'm going down a slippery slide of worries and anxious thoughts that I can do nothing about!!! I guess that makes two things I can't stand in my old age!!! One is the cold, and the other is waking up being so cold that you can't go back to sleep because those worrisome thoughts are waging war in your mind!!!

New Outlook

For Explorer's leadership group we are reading an awesome, deep, thought-provoking book called, Gospel Revelation. The past two weeks we have been reading about the soul and how excellent our souls are. If they weren't so excellent, then Jesus would not have died for them!!! This week, there was one entry that really made me see my students in a different light. The author said that even the meanest of creatures should be looked at as having an excellent soul; that Jesus died for them, too!!! Immediately, I thought of, in particular, about 4 students who are really "trying" me this year. And now, at least this week!, I have been focusing on looking at them through God's eyes and realizing how much He loves them and how He gave His one and only Son for them, as well as me!!! What a new perspective!!! Isn't it amazing how we hear something for so many, many years, and then, at just the right time, God allows it to penetrate our heart and it really makes sense?? He has opened the eyes of my heart!!!! Oh, how I love Him!!!!

Techno Granny!!

All the teachers on my team call me "tech granny" because I seem to know so much about computers. I guess I have them fooled real good!! Anyway, I just got off the phone with my computer guru son to ask him a question about Facebook, and before I could get my question asked, he asked me a question about how to download the background onto a blog page!! He said he has been trying for 2 days to set up a blog, and couldn't figure out how to put a background on! I love it when I can prove that for a 54 year old woman, I still "got it"!!! Ha!! I love you, Lucas!!!! (Okay, I have to admit that everything I learned about computers, I learned from you!!!)

My Little Helper!!

Well, today is a rainy day, so I decided that while Mike watched all the football games on T.V. I would finish the quilt that I have been working on for Breanna. Dooley thought I could use a little help pushing the quilt through the machine!!!

First, he peeks at me under the machine and starts barking so I will pay him some attention!

Shug picks him up and he quickly jumps up on my sewing table and proceeded to sit on the quilt and say, "Would you please play with me?"

I really want to help if you'll let me!!!

Happy New Year!!

Wow, it's hard to believe it is 2009. Where did 2008 go? It is amazing how fast time flies when you get a little bit older, isn't it??? Anyhow, I am sitting here waiting for Mike to come back from the lake after taking the big dogs walking. The new year finds us 'granddog' sitting for Jeremy and his family while they are visiting Kendra's family in Michigan!! So, needless to say, Mike and I stayed in last night and were in the bed by 10:00!! So no watching the peach or big apple drop this year!! We figured we better get as much sleep as possible, because we didn't know how Dooley (the Yorkie) was going to do last night. Noonan, the beagle, is no trouble at all. He's more of a laid back kind of guy, however, Dooley is a different story! We brought his crate, thinking maybe he would bed down in it along with Sadie and Noonan in Sadie's room. However, he had a different plan!! From the moment we put him in, he incessantly yelped that little Yorkie yelp until I got up and tried another plan! He has been sleeping in Jeremy and Kendra's kitchen with the gate up so he can't get out, so I tried that in our kitchen. Needless to say, that didn't work either. So after about 15 - 20 minutes of thinking he was going to quiet down, what does grandma do? Goes and gets him and puts him in the bed with us, where, I might add, he cuddled up between us and slept most of the night! Just like children, huh?? Here are a few pics of the granddogs hanging out at Shug's and Papa Mike's house:

Dooley taking a snooze in his little bed!

This is Noonan and he is tired of the camera!!