Overwhelming Love

Last November, we let go of our sweet pup Forrest - the oldest member of the little family my husband and I have.

Loss like that takes a while to get over. Peace battles with guilt.

My husband was ready for a puppy and I had my doubts. Both of us live busy lives. When we raised/trained the other three, we were working in the retail and restaurant industries. Between our two schedules, we made things work and successfully trained them relatively quickly. These days, however, we each work a 9-5 job and have our habits and hobbies on nights and weekends. I couldn’t (didn’t want to) imagine bringing an 8-wk old puppy into that.

My response became, “Give me a baby and you can have your puppy” (as somewhat of a joke). In the same way that I wasn’t convinced we were ready for a puppy, he wasn’t convinced that we were ready for a child.

As time when on, I had learned to surrender my desire for a child to God. If it didn’t happen, it didn’t happen. It was all in His timing. I learned to focus on the bigger picture.
Dustin sent me info on a litter of puppies (he knew exactly what he wanted, so a shelter dog wasn’t an option for this one) and we agreed to purchase one.

4 weeks later, on July 23rd, he brought home little Butters, a rambunctious cairn terrier…

…and I found out I was 5 weeks pregnant.

We are both excited and looking forward to welcoming our sweet child into this world

April 2019.