We've made it through Thanksgiving, Alecia's birthday and Brian's birthday, and Christmas. We still have New Year's and my birthday to go. I realized the last few weeks have been the usual December whirlwind. My work is insane this time of year so it makes life tough to juggle everything. In addition, there is always just tons of stuff going on.
I realized that I haven't been on Facebook in awhile which isn't necessarily a bad thing except that I read lots of positive, affirmative, inspirational things from the pages I subscribe to and they really help keep me going. When I haven't done that for awhile, I find that I start struggling myself. It was nice to see the grown kids for the holidays and my grandchildren. It always makes me wonder where the time has gone. Trying to keep up with busy schedules when there are lots of different people that you need to share a limited amount of time with can be somewhat overwhelming.
I finally got my abdominal wound healed just before the kids arrived in town mid December so I'm finished with my weekly trips to the wound clinic. My body is still adjusting to my new digestive system and hope to soon resume a decent diet. I've lost 25 lbs this year after all of my surgeries and healing which is a ray of sunshine in the midst of craziness.
We had to put our other dog to sleep just before Christmas which was pretty tough. He was another rescue that we'd gotten when we had to tell Roody goodbye last February. He kept having chronic ear infections and some really bad aggressive tendencies. In all of our years of having dogs, neither Brian nor I had experienced a dog that would attack and bite us but then be loving other times. It was truly like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You never really knew what he was going to do which meant that it was impossible to have him around anyone else. I'm proud of Brian for making that tough decision, because it was a tough one to make. Luckily, with the guidance of our vet, he explained that it was the most humane thing to do. There is a part of both Brian and I that can't help but feel as though we failed.
We did decide to get another basset because we really like the breed. We ended up choosing a female puppy. We usually prefer rescue dogs but I didn't find any locally but did find someone with puppies (I'd spoke to him last February before we settled on Baron). So we've added Gabriel to our family. She is absolutely adorable. She is a lot of work though. It's like having a toddler around. She loves to cuddle which is something we missed after Roody was gone because Baron wasn't much of a cuddle type of dog.
All of our big kids have left Kansas City and returned to their homes in Chicago and Seattle. I had the chance to take Lacey and Nate to Kaleidoscope (at Hallmark in Crown Center) while they were in town and that was a lot of fun. My mother-in-law and father-in-law will be leaving to go back to Florida tomorrow.
I took Catie to the back specialist on Friday for a follow up. The news was bittersweet. Bad news is that her L5 Pars fracture is about as healed as it will get and there is no evidence of a slipped disc. Good news is - her pain is much better than it was previously and really seemed to worsen as the weather got colder. We don't have to return until next December unless there are problems.
Santa brought me a new camera which I'm so excited to use. I had a chance to use it a bit while all of our guests were in town and I look forward to using it for some 'fun' things. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve and I am looking forward to ringing in 2013 with lots of positive things!
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