Oddessey2000

Yo Giovanni, Kick it one time boy!

Gio is still a little guy. When we see him wanting to brush his teeth, we encourage it. But the rules say no food....drinks...or even toothpaste on the carpet. So, when I found him on the family room couch with a toothbrush and open tube of toothpaste, I felt compelled to tell him to go back into the bathroom.

Unfortunately, I was on the phone with Animal Control seeing if they had picked up Squirt. when I got off of the phone I forgot about Gio in the bathroom. 10 minutes later I found him having covered the entire toilet in blue toothpaste and was usinge one the girls' razors to shave the toilet. my children are strange.

My sister had TONS of these dolls when she was little. All of my kids have had at least 1 CBK whether they were a boy or girl. Some of them have had more than I can count even for one kid. We still have one that we keep in our room that was Mary's when she was little. It has real doll hair instead of yarn. But now this particular Garding miracle is the best ever.



I think the coolest part is the little kid eating from the Melon.


Sorry for the short post. My back is killing me. I lifted a box wrong while unpacking. It hurts to lay down. It hurts to sit up. It hurts moving from any position to another. The only position it doesn't hurt in is standing up and walking around. The position it hurts worst is sitting in my computer chair at my desk. go figure.

The following ad went out today on Craigslist.

"Hello. I never pictured myself having to do this but we are beside ourselves. Our 17 year old brown miniature Dachshund went missing last night. We just moved hear a week ago and last night he was put out in the backyard unattended. He found a hole under the fence and we cannot find him. We have had him long enough that we have 3 children who were born after we got him. Our 16 year old is beside herself as he was her 8th birthday present. A senior when we got him he is ancient now. He has a cyst on his foreleg that looks like he has been pumping iron with that arm. he has a cyst on his pectoral muscle that is also sizable. He is almost half gray all over and has a bald/hot spot on his hip and rear leg. This is from an allergy ( and resultant chewing) that the vet was unsure of at this point. He is almost blind and likely deaf. The truth be told we were planing to taking him to be put to sleep on this coming Monday. But, we love him VERY much. He has just been suffering lots of aches and pains lately...oh and his hips go out from time to time and it makes him sit down suddenly and then sort of walk sideways for a few seconds. My kids are all out knocking on doors in the neighborhood seeing if anyone picked him up.

We are located on the East end of Asbury Way off of Donjoy. Please if you have seen him or have him call me at 859-xxx-xxxx or 859-xxx-xxxx.

I may have been planning to put him to sleep but I DO NOT want him to die alone or away from his family.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.

Sean "

Now we do miss Squirt terribly and are worried silly about where he could be. Those of you who inclined to pray to Saint Francis, then please do so. If that is not your particular flavor, then please please pray for his swift return to us. The thought of him dieing alone is one I don not want to live with.

(Oh ant BTW, I misspelled Alert intentionally for Mary!)

I could not pass up the oppurtunity to share this video find. while somewhat AIBOesque in many ways, this critter is awesome. I could have done without the Jaba cameo though.

OK, so a while back Steph told us to get a movie and watch it. The name of the movie was Fireproof, and we did as she asked. It turned out to be a really great movie, that I would recommend highly to just about anyone (couples families, married couples.). I don't want to spoil it but lets just say its about a couple saving their marriage or at least one member willing to do what it takes to do so. Within the movie is a book/notebook with a "dare" in it to follow steps for 40 days to ave your Marriage. The name of this book is The Love Dare. Recently I decided to pick up the book for myself. Now admittedly I think the book is geared towards those with troubled or even DEEPLY troubled marriages. I just felt that I could always work towards being a better husband to Mary. So I got the book. I started into the process and found somethings that I am already doing. Confused at first I just decided to try harder to do those things more. Unfortunately, I misplaced the book in the move so fell off the track. I found it though so now I will start over and continue to improve.

On a similar note, I bought myself a t shirt recently. Shopping by myself in a Christian Bookstore next to the Dentist office where Nyoka was getting hers cleaned, I found a T-shirt. Its the simple shirt in the picture above. Click the image to get a large view of it that is readable. Now I have MANY T-shirts with slogans and snarky comments. This one joined my collection and became my instant favorite. I wear it with great pride. What does it say? "i love my wife." No fancy fonts. No ALL Caps. In fact, there are no caps at all. Just the simple understated message that speaks so loud to me and to those who see it. Too sad that so many people comment that my wife must have bought it for me. Men and women alike seem to doubt that I would by it for myself. Nope, Mary wasn't even with me. I bought it for and by myself. And with good reason I think. I love her and she has MORE than earned that love.