Just joined the dog owner club...

This here is Jazz.

Hubs and I have been talking for awhile now of getting a dog for the boys. I was looking at the local Humane Society and when I saw this little critter, well he stole my heart.

Hubs and I agreed - smallish dogs ONLY!

Found this little guy and well.....

Me and the boys went to 'meet' him today with strict orders from hubs 'DO NOT COMMIT TO ANYTHING!' (he doesn't know me to well do he? lol)

I asked if I could take the dog to hubs work so that he could meet him.....then basically told hubs it was a done deal. (Just between you and me, he already loves him).

Hoss didn't want to come inside this afternoon (like he has all Summer long) he wanted to stay out with Jazz. Yay!

***ANY ADVICE WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED***

This time I knew I was dreaming...

This time I knew I was dreaming, but...

-Lately I wish that I could just pick up the phone and call her.




I have not been thinking of these little things. The only thing I think about is wanting to talk to her...not these little figurines.

*back story - many, many years ago - ma and I would buy each other fairy and angel figurines.

To the dream-

In the dream...I was at a book store. I started to walk. My arms are raised out (on the sides) and then not feeling anything grab or hold me...I was lifted up and carried swiftly to an isle and set down (I was lifted and carried, but then again I was also floating? walking? on a bed of feathers).

So, I was put back down and I was facing an angel figurine (set atop a bookshelf) and it was holding a little plaque that read 'PROUD'.

In my head I simply said 'Thanks mom'.

*it's the little signs that I get that help me realize that she (although no longer walking this earth, but in Heaven strolling her never ending beach. At dusk. With her dog, Friday, by her side) that she is still with me/looking out for me/thinking of me.

Gulf Coast trip (FL-MS) Dec10-Dec 21, 2009

Dec 19, 09 we finally put ma to sea. Her request was to be scattered at sea off a boat. The boat did not happen, but the 2nd best place to let her go was at her old apt. She loved that place and talked of it often.

This is the biodegradable shell that she and Friday (Friday was her dog, he was put down about 1 month before ma's death - he had a tumor that was out of control). Now they are forever together, I see ma and Friday walking in her Heaven....a beautiful, never-ending beach at dusk...just the two of them.

They floated for quite a bit after this.

The shell fills with water and eventually the ashes fall out and the rest eventually deteriorates.

This was a beautiful day. We had just enough people there to see her off.

I took Sprout to Dauphin Island to watch the sunset. It was beautiful.

This is under a pier in Fairhope.

A pelican and blue heron hanging out at ma's lil service.