We did not tell anyone! It was a long drive and I had plenty of time to debate with myself whether this was a good idea. With everything else going on (the house for sale, the move, working, parenting two kids alone…) was bringing a puppy into the fold a good plan? Was I ready…
Late fall 2014 The pathology report read: Cutaneous (skin) Lymphoblastic Lymphoma, high-grade extending to the deep margins of the tissue sample sent for evaluation. In a nut shell, the vet was right, it was already invading other tissues. This was a highly unusual cancer for a three-year old dog and not common in this breed.…
Fall 2014 We left Steve in North Carolina in late August. He was settled in an apartment. We had to furnish it and everything but the mattress and box spring arrived before we left. Steve will sleep on an air mattress until it comes, sometime in the next two weeks. It was surreal leaving him…
So how did it play out? Some days were better than others, that’s for sure. Once Steve accepted the position in North Carolina and put in his resignation, we had one month to make a lot of things happen. Steve and I were committed to letting Gabi finish her senior year at her current school.…
Steve and I had tossed around the idea of changing the way we live for a couple of years. We realized how caught up we were, in that vicious cycle of working so hard to maintain the lifestyle we chose and not spending enough time “smelling the roses.” Now don’t misunderstand, we loved living in…