wednesday…no, make that thursday…

ok, i started writing this yesterday and was sure i’d have time to get back to it, but now it’s thursday already… whew.  well, for one thing, our router quit working, and then our modem quit working after we got a new router. so that’s one...

happy anniversary, sweetie…

seven years ago, i woke up feeling very tired and crabby.  yes, i had done way too much of the wedding preparations myself, including making the very giant cake. jim and kevin put the giant cake into the back of the van and jim and i sat there with it as kevin...

thursday morning

i heard it rain in the night, a very good thing.  plus i think we’ve seen the last of the 90+ temps for the year.  amen to that. kevin  launched the sailboat yesterday morning.  i took many, many photos, which of course will be here at some point....

mollie, mollie, and more mollie…

i’ve been poring through my thousands of photos, looking for the best ones with mollie in them.  i guess i shouldn’t wait til i’ve organized all of them to post, because there are just so many. on tuesday, she went in the car with kevin when he ran...

so i’m sitting here,

looking at pictures of mollie, making myself waaaay too sad. but we did have some really good times.. here’s my favorite picture from our very short trip down to gulf shore, AL, in february.  we took mollie for walks on the beach even though it was clearly...

our hearts are broken.

the vet came to our house on tuesday evening, about 5:45, and put mollie to sleep. our sadness is all-encompassing. she was the best dog ever. here she is, after kevin had first gotten her from his next-door neighbor.  i didn’t even know her...

mollie, boat, show

so…mollie wasn’t feeling good yesterday morning.  she was shaking, which seemed very bad.  i called the U of I, and one of the oncology vets who was on-call called me right back.  she suggested i see how mollie was doing in a couple of hours, and that we...