Close encounters of the MLC kind

[1hope]

Yes I have a minature schnauzer that in his early years was quite a barker. (First small breed I've owned and I didn't do my homework.)

My vet gave me pills for him, maybe it was doggy valium and not prozak, but they have most things for animals that they do for people.

I met a guy last week that had a little house dog and it had diabetes at some point. They gave it insulin shots for a year before it lost the use of it's legs and they had to have him put down.

I don't think I could go that far. My little guy is nearning his end and I will have to make that decision soon. I just can't bear to think about losing him in addition to all of the other sadness that is going on.

I hope that you were able to work out your early morning conflict. Does your daughter's school have an early morning program that you could take her to 1 day a week?

When my boys were young and I was single that is what I would have to do. It's tought when you have kids and they are young. But with kids, I've learned that it's always something. The challanges get bigger as they get older - but I've found that they are always worth it.

I may not have their dad anymore, but I will always have them.

Their dad, my 1st husband (M18 yrs) was a serial cheater and I finally threw him out the 3rd time when I found out he had been carrying on a 5yr A with our neighbor. That caused our D and theirs.

The two of them never married. They see each other on weekends. He has his own home and she lives at her mom's house. He and I are friends now, and talk frequently regarding our kids and grandkids. Everyone says that he will never marry her (it's been 12 years) and that he still is in love with me.

How sad. I hate how our society reassures these guys that their manhood is all centered around their dick.

He broke my heart with this other woman, for 5 years! When I reached my limit I never looked back. We all lost, but he paid the biggest price.

Now, if I can just get my current H to get his head out of his a$$ and wipe the sh(t out of his eyes life could be good!

I hope that your day goes well and the love your D gives to you this morning will carry you through any stress.

You are a wonderful mom, and nurse, I can tell. Give yourself a big hug!!!!!!

Take care.

[hoosiermama]

Thanks as always, hope.

Re: dogs--see, I could so do the insulin thing. Being a nurse and all, I'd have no problem with that. But then, I grew up with a snippy, nasty little toy poodle who had epilepsy and congestive heart failure and needed daily meds for those!

I'm not such a wonderful mom these days. For the past few days I've been brittle, frantic, ready to lose it as the small irritations add up. Please keep me in your prayers, because D needs me to pull it together.

No, her school doesn't have a morning program. I may have to ask some of the folks who bring her home if they could also pick her up once a week. Honestly, I don't know why they schedule 7 am meetings. I can't think that early. I know other people can, but not me!

[1hope]

I'm not such a wonderful mom these days. For the past few days I've been brittle, frantic, ready to lose it as the small irritations add up. Please keep me in your prayers, because D needs me to pull it together.

Don't make me get out that 2x4! Of course you are a wonderful mom! I can feel it in everything that you write about your daughter. It comes thru because you care that you have been out of sorts. But you are human, afterall. And you are going thru a terribly stressful time. I'd say you have a right to be brittle and frantic. Yes, the irritations add up, they will. Be gentle with yourself and try to do something good for you tonight.

You know that I am praying for you. What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.