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05 March 2007 ~ 1 Comment

She pooped purple

I’m on the phone with Elizabeth tonight when Rob rushes past me. Grabbing a wad of paper towels, he shoots me a worried look and hisses, “She pooped purple!”
Now you’d expect my response to be “What?” or “Huh?”, but, sadly, I knew exactly what he was talking about. We have already had this conversation once [...]

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28 February 2007 ~ 3 Comments

You are going to be friends, damn it!

Warning: High decibel sounds! If you play this near your dog, he or she is likely to go completely ballistic.
The Cherkaskys and the Newmans. Kind of like the Montagues and the Capulets, no? We are insistent that our children will get married, so it is imperative that our dogs get along. So, even though Sophie [...]

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26 February 2007 ~ 9 Comments

We got the sweetest little dog …

… and then we got her home!
The timid, sweet puppy we took home on Sunday …

…comes out of her shell a bit, starts to get playful ….
and then the inevitable.
I wonder where she gets her willfulness from – her mom or her dad?
We are so screwed for having kids!

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13 February 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Meet Hayley

Her name is spelled right! My brother told me it was Haily or Hailey. I should have known better!
The Grishes have a new member of the family. Already! And much to my mother’s dismay. So much for not having a dog for awhile.

Dad keeps calling her Annie, and telling my sister to stop calling her [...]

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02 February 2007 ~ 3 Comments

Imagine there’s no heaven

Do you believe in heaven? What about God? And, more importantly, why?
We are putting down our family dog, Annie, today.

We’ve had her since I was in eighth grade. I’m doing OK, because I haven’t lived at home in eight years, really, and I said goodbye to her a long time ago. And, I’m not going [...]

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