Family Forum / Parenting / Single Parents / March 2006

I actually feel like we all have a lot of extra time.  I know a dog is a
huge responsibility and take a lot of time and so much more, but now that
I've decided that I am not going to go back to regular work for a while, as
I am going to be working on the Discovery Toys thing until *I*  feel that
*I* am ready and wanting to get back in school.  I seem to have nothing but
time.  I find, lately, now that things seem to be a lot easier and calm,
there's only so many times I can wash floors over and over again, and I'm
not sure how many times I've rearranged the kitchen and living room.  Heck,
I even did A's room and my room... Moved everything around.  I was about to
do B's room, then I realized that I just couldn't move around a loft bed
that kind of moves in pieces and comes apart.  Instead, I ended up just
clearing out all the toys that he doesn't play with.
We're usually home most of the day, and although A and I take it easy during
the mornings when B is at school, the afternoons are normally spent going
for nice long walks with both kids tossed into the wagon (given it's a nice
day out) or going to the park (not so much now that it's kind of colder out)
or just going across the street where there's a nice little hill for
sledding.  Perfect sized one for a 5 year old as well.
I really did think about it.  I've wanted to get a little dog for quite some
time, but when this opportunity came along, I was going to just jump in
without thinking, but I did take some time (actually, about a week of good,
hard thinking) and when I actually thought about the pros and cons of it
all, I realized that with our lifestyle, a dog would actually fit fairly
well in.
Summers are spent often camping or just doing whatever.  We go on nice
little walks all year round, and we do bikeride as a whole family come
spring/summer - excluding last summer where there was no way I could see
myself on a bike at all.
He's a male - he's cheaper than a female to fix.  He does have his first
shots, and we have a regular vet that my parents take their rat-catchers to
and where I took my own cat to when I had one living back at home when I was
about 12.  Small dogs are terribly expensive to feed, I am able to clip hair
and nails myself, and everything that I could think of, it just seemed to
fit in with everything more than it didn't.

Why we have a bitch, a female dog in heat that got a male. Now you can
go at it and have the largest family you ever wanted.

God said be fruitful and multiply the earth.

t Michael t

 

Oh, hopefully the name can stay!  You dont even want to know the other names
I had come up with... Things a person would have a hell of a time trying to
explain to friends, family and neighbours... Something that you really
*shouldn't* be calling from the back step... Names that would have the
school calling first thing tomorrow morning asking what on earth a 5 year
old is talking about in school and that he shouldn't be using that type of
language ;)

He STILL won't admit it, but he loves the little guy!  The second he saw him
last night, he got a huge smile on his face, and he has taken a liking to
him real quick.