I am bad luck for pets

Darby's face swelled up and one of her little eyes was almost swollen shut. I was pretty worried about her. We gave her a benadryl and put her in her crate. I woke up this morning at about 6am to check on her. Her poor little face was still swollen so more benadryl. She was almost completely back to normal by 10am. Did I mention sweet Darby is an English Springer Spaniel.

I have really terrible luck the animals in this house. Louis the lizard tried to jump out of his cage once when i was trying to feed him. The dogs were in the room so I think Darby scared him or something. Then there was the time Darby killed a bird in the backyard. There was a plethora of feathers, but no evidence of the bird body... Where did the bird go? Then there was the time someone left the front door open and Callie the Golden Retriever went on an adventure. The neighbor found her and put her back in the house because we were gone all day. I just have really terrible luck with the animals.

I went to a 6th grader's basketball game tonight and it was pretty fantastic. Congratulations to little B for making her very first basket!!! Yay!!


B looking like a diva.

By the way, never ask a 13 year old girl if she plays with her friends... they don't. They "hang out" with their friends when they are 13. (Just thought you would appreciate the advice so you wouldn't make the same mistake I did)

If you haven't seen Despicable Me you absolutely need to. The minions are fantastic and I feel like if I had minions then this is what they would be like. They are hilarious and they work hard... All the good characteristics of a good minion I think