Here it is, the last post of 2014. It's been another eventful year around here with WE graduating from high school and going into the Marines and Angel #1 leaving the Marines and starting a new chapter in Miami going to college and finally getting himself a girlfriend. Angel #4 getting her drivers license and her first job and Angel #2 getting not one, but two dogs (more on that later). Hubs has spent over 110 days out of town on various jobs, getting real success with his public speaking and stand up comedy stuff along with new business opportunities coming his way. As for me...well, I read a bunch of books and got a sports injury (more on that later, too).
Last night was Angel #1's last night home, he left early this morning. In a great, unplanned moment of travel karma, Rent-a-Grandma and her daughter flew out of the local airport on Dec 25, actually getting on the exact airplane that hubs and Angel #1 were getting off from on their flight home from Hawaii. So grandma & her daughter spent the night at our house and we had a great time together and the next morning they drove to the airport and handed off their car keys to hubs who took her car back to our house, so her new car didn't have to spend a week alone in airport parking. This worked out especially great because this morning Angel #1's flight left at 6 am, so he drove himself in grandmas car, locked the keys in and the car was there waiting for grandma when her flight arrived back home a couple hours later. How's that for perfect? WE flies out on the 6am flight on Saturday, sadly though, someone here (hubs, not me) has to get out of bed and drive him to the airport. WE's a little bummed out because his girlfriend left for Paris on the 25th and she'll be returning on Sunday, so he didn't get to spend as much time with her on his leave as he would have liked. But life works that way sometimes.
Since it was #1's last night home, we decided to do something as a family and bowling became the activity of choice. #1 does a lot of bowling in Miami and #4 goes bowling with friends occasionally, but the rest of us hadn't been on an alley in years. We had a family bowling tournament, hubs had an old trophy he bought at a thrift store for some reason and sharpied the words #1 Bowler on the plaque, best bowling score won the trophy. We decided to bowl 3 games, 1st game was a warm-up the the best score of the last two games won the award. We're all pretty sucky bowlers, so hubs score of 115 got the prize. About the 2nd frame of the third game, I tossed Gene (my bowling ball) down the alley and something went wonky in my hip. I ended up walking with a limp the rest of the night and finished the game with a whopping score of 66. I'm calling it my first sports injury.
Now, for Angel #2's dog story. Back this spring she got a little Pomeranian dog. It was an old dog, I think maybe 14 or 15 years old. She knew it was sick and has maybe a year to live which was perfect for her intentions. She'd been thinking about getting a dog, but didn't know if she wanted to make the commitment to taking care of a dog with her schedule. Well, she learned that she's more a cat person than a dog one and was biding her time until Lucky the dog met his maker. But this week someone brought a Chihuahua into the hospital in birthing distress. They'd bred it with a larger male and the puppies were much too big for her. They managed to save the mother, though both puppies died and the mother needed to be spayed. Since her wonderful owners only wanted her for breeding purposes, they were going to have the dog, who isn't much more than a puppy herself, put down. #2 intervened and claimed responsibility for the dog so they wouldn't have to kill her and now she's got a dog she doesn't know what to do with. If anyone here in Wisconsin is willing to pay the $125 for it to hitch a ride home with Angel #4 when she goes to visit #2 at the end of January, they can have themselves an adorable little dog who just got a second chance at life. Let me know if you're interested.
So anyway, that's all the news that's fit to print for the moment. Everyone have a safe and happy new year and see you in 2015!!
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