Monday, August 30, 2010

Brave? Ambitious? Crazy? Dumb?

As if traveling with five kids for three and a half weeks, and getting home just in time to start school, and prepare to host two sets of visiting grandparents for the occasion of our second beautiful daughter's baptism this past weekend didn't offer enough excitement for our already chaotic family, today we adopted this guy:


Thanks to the grandparents for your patience in sharing your special time in the visitor spotlight with a DOG. And for your generosity in helping the pick-up go smoothly. Three grandparents stayed behind to care for little ones sad to be left while one grandparent came along.

Your help made things so much easier for me and made everything with the introduction of the dog to the family home go so much smoother than it would have otherwise. We appreciate you.

Now if we could just get Princess on board...




***I should note that our family vote on whether or not to adopt Sampson was not unanimous. Mr. Bloomers was in opposition and his vote was duly recorded in the Family Council minutes. Thanks to Mr. Bloomers for not calling in the veto. We love you.

6 comments:

Alexis said...

why is princess not on board?

Melinda said...

We've just begun talking about getting a dog. I didn't want one when we had babies around, but babies are probably done coming to our house, so puppy time is here, I guess! I'll be excited to hear your experience with it. What kind of dog is he and how big? The picture makes him look fairly large...

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rarejule said...

It took me over 7 years to convince my hubby to invite another furry friend into our home. I hope things go smoothly for everyone! He is very cute.

Kristin said...

Princess is just scared. But she is warming up a little more every day.

He is actually not that big. He is around 22 pounds. Perfect size to be big enough to hold his own against five kids and small enough not to take the kids out.

He is about a year old, house trained, crate trained, and pretty well mannered. We adopted him out of foster care in a home with a dog and two small children.

So far so good! I just couldn't take on a puppy.

Holly said...

Not crazy or dumb. We have had a dog for 15 years. Now we have two dogs and a cat in addition to our six kids. BUT, animals aren't in the house do to allergies of the man of the house. You were smart not to get a puppy though...they chew everything!