Christmas Blessings!!

It was a very stressful November & December financially for our family. Christmas for the girls almost didn't come. Thankfully we were blessed with many caring friends and family that stepped up to help & we had a very happy Christmas! God is good to provide for our precious family!

We had a lot going on since my last blog post, so I'll try to shorten it as best as possible!

Rosie has been such a blessing to our family & we are so thankful God sent her to us! She has settled right in and is such a sweetheart! She only has 1 flaw & that is that she has bad separation anxiety. As soon as we leave she gets very anxious. She has torn up the blinds twice, flipped out in the bathroom when we tried to put her in there, and when placed in our fenced in backyard, she has knocked a fence panel down & gotten out twice. We now have a crate for her when we leave, but she is still stressed and has rubbed her little nose raw on the metal door. We are looking into getting her anxiety meds from the vet to keep her calm when we have to leave.

 

A sweet friend took the girls for a PJ Polar Express Day with some other homeschool children! Santa came by for a visit!

 Rosie loves her girls!

We went looking at Christmas lights & came across this crazy house!

We made a gingerbread house & train! It was fun!

 Faith and her house!

 Hope and her train!

 Rosie loves her momma!

 Sleeping in Faith's lap. :)

 They got a Barbie for their reading award!

Christmas Eve! They got their Christmas Eve gift of new pjs, Dolphin Tale 2, and a cookies for Santa plate I made for them.

 Santa came!!

It was a very blessed day! Thankful for our blessed Saviour! We had a wonderful day. Mom & Pops came over, the girls got great gifts, and we ate a wonderful ham dinner. After all of our struggles, I never lost sight of how very thankful I was. For a Christmas that almost didn't happen, it sure turned out wonderful!

 We are extra thankful for Rosie. She has taken away all the pain from loosing Gynger, and has blessed our lives with joy!

May you all have a wonderful New Year full of blessings!

It was another busy week! Monday was a crazy day! We had a sweet dog come to our porch & look right in the window. She was a beautiful lab & had a very unusual walk. We thought she may have been hit by a car or something. It was a cold rainy day & we just couldn't turn her away. We put her in the back yard & set up the porch with lots of hay for a bed & feed her. She was so sweet, friendly, fat & her nails were trimmed, I knew someone must have been looking for her. We called the animal shelter & no one had reported her missing, so we gave them her description & our info in case someone calls looking for her. I posted her picture on the local facebook site for missing pets and searched the statewide missing pets site to no avail.

We couldn't take her to the vet that day because the girls had a Parents Night at Co-op. We put a heat lamp over the place she was laying in the hay & she was snug & cozy. Nana & Papa came to watch the girls program. Faith had a dance she was performing in & she did an amazing job!!

 Hope and Papa!

 

I guess I can't upload Faith's video, it seems too big. Too bad, she did an beautiful job!

 

The next morning Glen took her to the vet. He couldn't tell how old she was, but overall she looked good, no injury he could see. She did have fleas & heartworms, but the heartworms we not too bad & after her meds they will be 100% gone. After I got home from work I gave her a flea bath. I started to panic because when I was washing her back blood was coming all off it!! We rushed her back to vet convinced that she truly was injured & the vet must have missed something. He looked her all over & couldn't find any injury & said the blood must have been from all the fleas. We were relieved! I had a sweet friend bring a huge bag of dog food for her, food & water bowls, treats, leash & collar! So blessed! I also found flea drops left over from Gynger. We left her out 2 more days for the flea meds to work & on Thursday we brought her in for the first time. Hope came up with the name Rosie & we all thought that was perfect! She is precious & she smiles all the time! She adores the girls and follows them all around. She sleeps right beside their beds. She has not had any accidents in the house, but doesn't seem to realize what to do when we let her out to go potty. She just thinks we are putting her out. We are walking her around and praising her when she goes & I think she is finally starting to get it.

God works in mysterious ways. We sure did not plan on getting a dog till spring when we are getting a Golden Retriever puppy. I think this dog needed us as much as we needed her. We were really missing Gynger SO very much, and she has helped ease the pain of loosing her.  Thank you God for sending us Rosie!

We have been very busy since my last post, even though it's only been a week. We got lots of heartfelt condolences on the passing of our sweet Gynger. A friend of the girls made them a beautiful card. And I figured out pretty quick that I got poison ivy on my arms when we buried her by the back fence. Just adds to the pain of loosing her.

The girls sweet friend Izzi stayed over last Friday & we went to Bass Pro Shop. It was a good distraction for them. My sweet friend Pam is teaching me how to sew from a pattern & came over Friday to start our ambitious project of making pioneer dresses for the girls & I! I am excited & hope I can accomplish it! Then the girls finally read all their books and earned their Wii game. They were very excited!

Thanksgiving came in a rush & even though we didn't have any extended family to spend it with, we still made the whole yummy spread! Everything was delicious! We found the place mats from 2003 that had pictures of Gynger & Duke our beloved pets, so we had them with us in a way. It was sad when I had the boiled turkey neck & no Gynger to give it to.

Friday we put up the Christmas tree & decorated the inside of the house for Christmas! Several tears were shed when we pulled out Gynger's stocking, still miss her so much. We brought our Peanut Butter the bunny to cheer us up. We got a fun train to go around the bottom of the tree, something Glen has been wanting for awhile now.

Today the girls woke up & discovered that Elfie had made this grand appearance! We bought him a little aviator jacket & goggles & he loved it! He brought the girls baking mixes & was riding on the new train. We decorated the outside of the house & it's all complete! It has been a great Thanksgiving weekend! (Excuse all the pictures, my cell phone just doesn't take very well pics)

I made these cute snowmen today!

The girls little Christmas tree in the school room.

We love Christmas & are looking forward to the month of December & all the fun we will have!