I survived!!

The weekend was unmitigated chaos and I just didn’t have the time or energy to do a blog post.  But I survived.

My Friday evening started off with Daniel having a croup attack and a 39.5 fever. He then proceeded to spend Friday and Saturday night in bed with me.  Which meant that I spent Friday and Saturday night listening to his breathing.

On Saturday morning my folks went collect our new girl from Animal Anti Cruelty League and bring her home.  We were instructed to not let her into our property immediately, but to take her and Jack for a long walk until they calm down and get used to each other.  It took a 45 minute walk and much whining and growling from Jack to get him to settle down to a mild panic, but we finally managed it.  We then let Jack in the gate first and left my Dad to keep an eye on them whilst my Mom and I took the kids off to the shops.

The lovely people at AACL requested that I keep the dogs outside and away from the kids for at least 2 days as they were scared that Jack would get aggressive if the kids got too excited. They also gave some really helpful tips about dogs fighting and dog pecking orders.  For example: if 2 dogs are fighting, lift their back legs up to break it up.

On Saturday night after the kids had gone to sleep I wanted to let the dogs in to see how they would do and it went very well, so I kept them inside for a while.  I left them outside on Sunday morning, but when we came back from Fathers Day lunch at my folks I instructed the kids to be calm to see if we could let the doggies into the house.  They all behaved extremely well so we all had a bit of a chill in the lounge.

Well, I was trying to have a nap on the couch, but the girls had other ideas:

 And here are the doggies having a chat:

Etienne was meant to be home at 6pm, but they were running late and by 6h30pm I could stand the juggling of bathing and feeding and whining no longer and sent one of those”if you don’t come home RIGHT NOW…” messages and poured myself a glass of wine.  Not my proudest moment, but there is only so much I can deal with for 5 days.

So, as at this morning we aren’t 100% sure what our little lady will be called, but we are leaning toward Lily.  She’s a real little lady!

Here they are last night, amazing how much space they take up.  And how much they fart..

And lastly, when our friends were over for lunch on Thursday, I took this pic of Daniel and their little girl.  He went up to her and gave her the biggest hug and cuddle.  I love my boy, he is so gentle and sweet, but how could you not want to cuddle that sweet little face?!

ps: the cat’s gone missing.  I’m wondering if he’s fired us?