The Night It All Became Clear....

The Night It All Became Clear.....

I have intentionally not blogged at all in the past few months because what’s going on in my house right now is extremely private and very hard in so many ways. When I started the adoption journey I had some idea of what to expect but I was still extremely clueless on certain aspects.

Last night, October 28^th, was most likely one of the best nights of my life. And that’s saying a lot.

 

It wasn’t the finalization of the adoption, nothing of major importance happened, but, it was a major moment in my heart.

 

I’ve been sick for about a week now and when I got home I was feeling majorly weak. Work had worn me down, and I had a headache. The moment I walked across my threshold of my home the dogs started barking, the kids were noisy and my husband looked like he needed a break. My brother and his wife had been out of town for a week so we had been babysitting my puppy-nephew Parker. Whom is the most adorable puppy ever. So Ry already told me he would be stopping by the house to pick up Parker so I knew that soon my house would be crowded with more bodies.

 

(I’m not going to say the kiddos names so lets just call them A & S.) I quickly got my son, A, and asked if he wanted to help me make dinner. We had grilled chicken over salad. He of course said yes because he loves helping me cook. Maybe one day he will be a chef! We had started cutting up the lettuce and carrots when S came into the kitchen and told me she wanted to make her daddy a necklace. After explaining that daddy probably won’t wear a necklace she decided she would make it anyway. So there she is, sitting at the kitchen table putting beads on a string when the doorbell rings.

 

The dogs go crazy and so do the kids. Everyone but Tony and I run to the front door to welcome the aunt and uncle in. The kids go wild, Parkers barking and jumping and Toto and Doogie were running crazy.

 

Life was perfect.

 

My sis in law, we will call her Mar, comes up to me and hugs me and then tells me how much she and Ry missed the kids and how they talked about them non-stop with her family. And its only been 96 days (today) with the kiddos and already everyone is attached. She then tells me how they are always thinking how they should get this or that for the kids and how they ARE coming over Saturday to spend Halloween with their niece and nephew. And of course Tony and I! How easily we are forgotten it seems lol.

 

Once they leave its just the 6 of us again. Life calms down and A and I finish cooking, well preparing a salad. We all sit down to a family dinner where the kids talk about their day, we laugh, say our prayers and go about having a wonderful family dinner.

 

Now its time for Dad to go to bed, which normally is an uneventful experience. Except tonight … S breaks the news … the night I thought the television was possessed by a ghost it was really Dad playing a trick on me with an app on his phone … and now its on.

 

Tony and the kids then precede one at a time to laugh and play and goof off for a good 15 minutes. It was so loud! My head was KILLING me. But it was the best moment of my life. I sat at the table watching Tony play with each of the kids. Chase them around the house. Watch the kids jump on him, punch him and tease at him.

 

And it was in this moment that I ‘knew’ everything will be okay. Everything that we’ve had to learn to grow through, cope with and learn to manage was worth this moment. Because this is family. This is what its like….being a mom.

 

And there is absolutely nothing more exciting or important to me than being a mom.

And since I can't yet post pics of my kids here's a pic of the dogs!

Leash, we don't need no stinkin leash....

(Written from Toto and Doogies Point of View)

They looked at each other, their eyes twinkling from the reflection of the television being left on overnight.

Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Doogie said to Toto.

If you are thinking that cord to the thing that your human fiddles with all the time looks tasty then yes. Toto tended to be the good puppy but on occasions he would succumb to Doogie’s orneriness.  

No I’m thinking that when we go out for our adventure today we give our humans a good chase, they need to be walked, and they are always on the couch. Doogies big black eyes looked over at his brother, Toto’s brown little ears perked up with excitement.  

I love to run, this will be good.

A few hours passed till both of their humans were awake. Doogie and Toto knew how much the woman liked their running around so they immediately took off chasing each other. And as expected she started to yell. Your human is very moody in the morning Toto you should lick her more she likes that.

Well if you didn’t bite her hair she wouldn’t yell why can’t you just sit peacefully in her lap? 

Never mind, her lap belongs to me, you stick to the man. You two like lying all over the couch anyway.

The dogs and their humans spent the morning relaxing together while watching a show on television about that man whose named after a food that involves the green leaf stuff and dogs. Everything went well till Toto noticed someone sitting on his human.

Doogie she is mine don’t make me come over there on that recliner and chase you off.

Dooies ears perked up and he got on all four, in a quick second they pounced each other and began rolling around on the ground. The two humans got excited and started cheering them on, what with the shouting and clapping they were doing. The dogs loved when they could entertain their humans. Finally they stopped their playing and the family got ready to leave.

Doogie I keep telling you when it’s walk time you have to trick the human into thinking you are calm. If you keep wagging your tail like that we won’t ever get out of here.

Doogie paced in front of the door anxious to go. He watched as Toto’s human went outside and that’s when he saw his escape. Swift like the wind Doogie jumped into action and ran outside. The human female called for him but he didn’t care, all that was on his mind was, FREEDOM. 

Toto didn’t like his human yelling at his brother without him being present so he raced out of the house to see what she was doing to Doogie. When Toto saw her leaning over in her car he thought, CAR RIDE SHOT GUN And hopped into the front seat. 

My turn get out! Doogie said as he jumped in right after. See your human is angry she is yelling at us and opening other doors, come on lets get out of here.

As they jump out of the car they notice the male human has opened the other car. Doogie loves that car, it’s his human’s favorite toy. Without thinking he runs and jumps into the back seat. Toto where are you come on, car ride!! Doogie shouted. 

No no, car rides are boring ever since you came along I don’t get to sit up front I’m going to stay right here and play in the grass.

The humans tried to bring Toto into the car but he kept outsmarting them. They would move right he would go left. He evaded every one of their cleaver tricks.

Hey you can’t have all the fun! Doogie hollers as he jumps out of the car and starts running past the humans. Now the masters and their two humans are running in circles. Everyone is trying to catch each other. We should really let them win once in a while makes them think they are in charge. Doogie tells Toto.

After you then pup! Toto hates giving in first, if he started to act like the humans wanted him too he knew his female human wouldn’t spoil him so much. 

Doogie took the first step and ran into the car. The male human felt proud and quickly shut the escape route off. Toto lowered his head to his female and let her guide him into the car. Once everyone was buckled up and heading off Doogie looked at Toto and goes, Wait till they see me at the dog park…

Coming Soon.....Blood Purple, September 25th

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