Well its Wednesday again. And its time for my posting. This last week I have been thinking up things for my new blog. And came across some things, so we will see how that works out. We also had a birthday on Friday for Aaron and we got a new addition to our family.
Aaron's Birthday was on Friday and so when he came home from work we had a little cake all covered in candles. We had a banner on the garage saying Happy Birthday! Balloons everywhere in the house, confetti on the table accentuating the "candles with cake" lol. Streamers were hung like a door, and more things inside saying happy birthday. We had a nice little Happy Birthday time before he had to take the girls up to their mothers house. Aaron knew about 2 of his presents but he had 5 all together. Things he knew about were his running shoes that he desperately needed and wanted, and the socks that he loves. I then got him some basic white t-shirts because he mentioned that he needed some, We also got him a Nike + iPod. He loves it, it is pushing him more. And last but not least a new phone. I got him the new Droid X. And frankly I am a little, ok more than a little, jealous. This thing does everything. He was not expecting it and was thrilled when he opened it.
Saturday night we had a few friends and family at a restaurant to celebrate his birthday and we all had a blast. after dinner his sister invited us over for some drinks and when we got there I saw this little orange and white tabby just hanging out, walked right up to me and started purring. This poor thing looked starved, so I told Missy about it and she ran out there with some cat food and placed it out side for it. It broke my heart. what if that was a child? I mean would you let a child sit outside and starve, unloved, homeless, and without a family? You see the television ads for supporting young children in a third world country who's bones are sticking out of their skin, fly's on their face, and tattered clothes. But do you ever really see the severity of it all? This tabby was like that. Not so much mangy looking but sad. Anyways, we ended up going back inside, had a good time mingling and chatting. We went home and went to bed, but I couldn't fall asleep.
As I laid in bed thoughts were going thru my head about animals. Then the thought of Sassy, my beagle that I had to put to sleep after 13 years, due to cancer. The pain I went threw to loose her. And then it hit me, what is going to happen to me when its Foster's time to leave? Lets just say it will be worse than any depressed being you have ever witnessed. So I pulled out Aaron's Droid and played on it, there are aps on there for a IQ test that takes about 40 minutes to complete. I figured that, if anything, that should get my mind in a different place and possibly put me to sleep. I went threw all the questions, and then the time said that it only took me 13 minutes and I got a score of 128. hmmmm. it was 2 in the morning. this is just a silly little phone application. No way. So i downloaded some other things, and found an app for sleep deprivation and relaxation. It was like sound frequencies that are supposed to help your mind. well I tried it out and fell asleep almost instantly.
As I was sleeping the next morning, Aaron got up, fed the dogs and took them outside for a bit. When he came back I was awake and he told me that he did that IQ test thing, and he scored a 108 and was so happy about it. I laughed and said, did you see my score? he said, yeah, but really? how accurate is this. I mean I think it has a bug or something because it was asking me things that nobody would know. I told him to show me which ones he was talking about and when he did I immediately said "oh its that one, see how this and this are this way, well this completes it." and he looked at me confused but said "oh" and then showed me another and again i explained how easy it was. I think he got annoyed with me, but all in all i felt good about myself. He took it again and got a much higher score than before and then he felt good about himself too. Ah the power of the mind.
Sunday we got a call from the girl's mother saying that they had been stung several times by some bee's and asked if we knew if they were allergic. I said, that Aspen has never been stung before, and Autumn says that she was stung once up at her mothers house. So their mother gave them some benadryl and some ibuprofen. When they got home they seemed fine, but Autumn got stung right by her eye and she looked like she was punched. So we gave her a children Tylenol before she went to bed and then monday morning as she came down for so breakfast her eye was even more swollen. she looked at the fridge after she came alive from her dead sleep and strained her eyes. She looked confused, and covered her good eye, then the eye she was stung by. and said, "i cant see out of this eye" and pointing at the eye that was swollen. I went up to Aaron and asked if he wanted to take her to the doctors and see what they can do for her. He said lets see how she is at the end of the day. she then came in our room asking if she could have us write a note for her to stay in from recess. * Wait. What? Autumn is asking to stay inside at recess? she loves recess! something is wrong. So I sent her to school with a note saying to keep in her for recess and to please call me if anything gets worse. Needless to say by the time I picked her up to take her to the doctor, the swelling has already gone down and she looked like she was back to normal again.
Our family has yet once again expanded. Sunday after doing some lazy day activities, Aaron and I went to the pet store to grab Jaba our toad some more crickets. As Aaron was getting the crickets, because I wig out a little when they get them out of the container and put them in a bag, I was walking around and I saw a little room. It had a little consult area and then a wall of windowed cages displaying animals for adoption. I was looking at one and noticed it look exactly like one I had just seen the night before at the get together.. So as Aaron was walking toward me I showed him and the lady in charge of the little room came out and said she has extra toes, and then asked us if we would like to see it. I said sure. I dont exactly remember why I said sure, I usually pass right by without a glance do to sadness. But, I did, and we went in the little consult area and she brings this little thing out, cute as a button. Active, sweet, young in mind body and soul. She was only a year old, and acted like it too. Aaron was intrigued with it for some reason, he asked questions about her, and played with her. As we put her back in her little room of a cage and I saw another one just like it. Well you know me, I dont like to make one feel special and not the other, so I asked if we could just play with the other two, one at a time. So she pulled out the second one and this one was interested in nothing but the crickets in the bag. She looked exactly like the other except she was 2 years old and was kind of a scardy cat. lol. anyways it was time to bring out the 3rd one and Aaron was like "lets leave him alone, lets just go home. I told him I couldn't leave him out of the love. So the lady unlocked the cage and he jumped out with grace. He went over to Aaron and perched right at his feet. I didn't see it then but Aaron was enjoying this. Again more questions to the lady from Aaron and then he turns to me while playing and loving on the animal in his hands, and says "Are you opposed to getting a cat?" I was thrown back and shook my head and said the first thing on my tongue. "not really". What was I saying? Shouldn't we talk more about this? we never even mentioned getting one, a bunch of other animals, yes, but this? My dad is allergic, but then again, my parents have come to our house maybe 3 or 4 times. Besides, we just got Jaba. Are the girls allergic? Do we want to go down this road? As I was thinking all of this, I looked at Aaron and he looked as if he was thinking the same things and then I asked where they got it from, what was the background of this little one, she said that a family had given him up due to allergies. This little guy was with a family for 3 years? And now he doesn't have one? Awwww, we wanted to give him his family back. We wanted to give him the love that was stripped from him. I turned to Aaron and said, can we walk around and talk about this. So we did, we walked around thinking of all the things positive and negative. We looked at all the things we may need to get and the cost of it all. What the dogs would think, how the girls would handle it. And finally decided, YES, lets give him a home, a family and most of all, LOVE. So we went back over and adopted this little guy.
We haven't got a name for him yet, he came with the name Pirate, but we aren't sure if that is what he wants his name to be. He sure doesn't look like a pirate. So we are brainstorming some name ideas and will let you know what we name him. The ideas we have now are: Jack (for jackpot), Jeeves (because he looks like a butler ie:fresh prince), Tank (he does have a belly), Buddha, Edgar. those are just a few of what we got so far. I think we are leaning more toward "Jack".
As I sit and look at this guy and try to figure out how people could just give up a part of their family after three years, I realized that if Aaron and I could have children together, we probably would give 18 (or is it 19 now) kids and counting a run for their money. We both have so much love to give, and are heartbroken when we cant share our love. We seriously go nuts when the girls are away at their mothers every other weekend. Don't get me wrong, its nice to have some grown-up alone time, but they complete us. We are not just a married couple, with children. We are a family!
So sweet! I didn't know you couldn't have kids?
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