Divinely Hooked

Back when I was a youngster I was living with a friend and decided that I wanted a dog. So off to the shelter we went. Most of the dogs were barking and jumping around, but the dog that called to my heart was a little girl dog that was sitting in her fence with her head down and not looking around. She had just completed heart worm treatments and had just been fixed. She was a beautiful red color with tiger stripes. Her papers said that she was a 10-12 month old boxer mix and she was only $25.00. I was sold. At the time I was young and had no clue about how hard it would be to get a place to live with having a fifty pound dog that was part boxer, but I couldn't leave without her. Something connected us and I'm so thankful that it did. When I put the cheap leash that they had there around her neck she didn't really know what to do. I paid for her and filled out the necessary paper work and out the door we went. I don't know what happened to her that first year of her...

My recently turned 9 year old has been needing and been using deodorant for a while now. I don't know if he just didn't believe me about his stink or what, but he was not using his deodorant like I was telling him to. The other day he decided to get his vitamins out of the upper cabinet in the kitchen for himself. He was in there and reached up to get them and made this horrified face and told me that "something STINKS!!" I didn't smell anything when I was in there a little bit before him. So I go in there and he walks by me and I told him it was himself that he was smelling! 😂 Needless to say he went and put deodorant on. But boy did it make me laugh! And of course I texted the story to my family members so they could enjoy the moment with me. A couple days later my youngest had to go to bed early because of behavior so it opened the perfect opportunity to begin my puberty talk with my older son. It went well. He hasn't asked any questions or anything. He f...

Hey everyone! It's been a while! An update about the porn watching neighbor boy: He has chosen to not be friends or even speak to my son because he told me about what happened at the birthday party. I did speak to the boy and explain that he wasn't trying to be a tattletale, he was trying to understand what he saw and that I told on him. We haven't seen him since. Not a huge disappointment for me since he wasn't a nice kid anyway, but a tough thing for my son to deal with. I have not yet had "the talk" yet with my son, I'm getting ready to prepare myself and get what I want to go over with him figured out. Then we will have the talk in the next few weeks. I have been getting better with the dizziness from my meds. It's not as bad. Really I don't notice it anymore, which is good since I'd rather not randomly fall over. haha. I've been exercising regularly since about March. I'm down 5lbs, but let me tell you I hate it! Not the weight...