Saydee

I have been avoiding this post and the emotions it will stir for long enough. Our dog Saydee died last month. She did not take well to moving :( She was eating all the other dogs food here on the farm, and drinking water out of everywhere but her bowl. She started to loose weight and get sluggish. I took her to the vet and he said that she had an absess of some sort in her belly. He could do some costly tests to find out the origin, but the bottom line would be very costly surgery to fix any problem he found. He gave her an antibiotic to see if that would help and sent us home to make a decision that became easier by the day. She was sooo sick and weak. We decided it was time to part with a great friend. I held her that morning at a very kind veterinarian injected her with that pink serum that took her life. It was comforting to feel her labored breathing relax and slow to a stop. I held her and sobbed and sobbed. Ron had prepared a spot here at the farm the night before (in the pouring rain) and my dad helped me to lay her to rest there. We had her for about 9 years and she was truely a part of our family, a sister to the boys befor Sydni, an escape artist, and a wonderful friend.

I'm too excited to sleep!

Yes it is 4 in the morning and I can't sleep. This is not unusual for me, but today my mind is filled with excited thoughts instead of worried ones. We have been here in Cedar and at my parents for 2 and 1/2 months now. Not much has happened with our house in Layton or me finding a job, that has causes great worry for me. We have dropped the price on the house and had some neighbors do some painting. We decided to list it as a rental a few weeks ago and had 1 family look at it. Then nothing... Night before last we decided to drop the rental price a bit, and today we have 3 different people looking at it. I know it is premature but I am so anxious for all that this means! I have found a house here that I love and truely feel is where we are supposed to be. I seems to haunt me, I keep getting the mls listing sent to my e-mail and thinking about where I would put things and how I would decorate what. I know, silly huh?

We are headed back to Layton tomorrow. Our intent was to check on the house and do a few things to spruce it up, but we've decided we'd better take a trailor and get the rest of our stuff. I am anxious to see what happens, and hope and pray that we will make a good decision about renting. Praying for good renters, and good neighbors for our friends that we miss dearly. We are taking the kids out of school for a day (something we don't do lightly), Ron has a conference on Friday so we will drop him off at the U and head for Layton for 2 days. Yeah!!