New Project

I had seen this pattern one day and it was one of those Oh I hope I don't need that soon. Unfortunately I had a reason to buy it. I'll do the one on the left for Clay. Then my framing store will be able to make a frame like this one to have his collar and tag on it. This design is from The Sunflower Seed called Forever in my Heart. It comes with a little paw print charm.

The vet called Friday afternoon and talked with my mom since we had already left. It was another gentleman from the office. He's a very nice guy. He said they got the test results back and nothing showed up. Then he asked how Clay was doing. So mom told him the news. The vet said looking at the results there was no sign he should have died that quickly. Then he asked more questions. After hearing more about the symptoms he said he thinks Clay had congestive heart failure. It can cause a cough and seizures. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do for it. So early Thursday morning he could have had a major stroke or heart attack and that's what happened. It's nice to know the results and gave us a feeling of closure. There wasn't any more we could have done for him. We tried. His little heart just couldn't fight any longer.

Lost Friend

Yesterday Clay had a bad seizure. I've never witnessed that and it was really hard. We took him to the vet to recheck his blood. His numbers were getting lower so we knew there was something wrong. They decided to send it away for further testing.

He was tired and the vet said that he would be cause of the seizure. He did enjoy some new jerky treats I got yesterday for him. First time all month he really enjoyed a treat.

Early this morning I heard a little whine. So I got up to check on him. He was losing his battle. My husband and I pet him and told him we didn't want him to be in pain any longer. It was so hard to witness but I'm glad we could be with him in his final moments. Reminding him how much we loved him for the 12 years we've been his family.

Our other dog Izzy sniffed him and I was trying to explain it to her. It's so hard to watch her grieve. I know as much as my heart hurts her little heart is more than likely feeling that same way.

Jeremiah and I had a good cry this morning together. Brought up a lot of memories. Clay was a puppy mill dog and had a lot of problems with other people but we did the best we could to give him a happy home. He didn't have to live outside. He got blankets to hide under and chewies all the time. I hope he enjoyed his life with us. We sure enjoyed knowing him. 

Update on Clay

I was really worried going to the vet. I was planning for the worst news. The vet listened to his heart. He kept listening so I was again bracing myself for the bad news. Then he said Well his heart and lungs are okay.

I breathed a HUGE sigh of relief. The vet said he was worried it would be his heart too. So then the next step was blood work.

The results showed all of his organs are fine. For some reason his bone marrow had an incident. We won't know what happened. It caused Clay to get anemic. This causes the coughs and the passing out. Basically your blood isn't going fast enough to keep your body going. But the blood test showed his blood was in the process of fixing itself. So for whatever reason it happened but he's in the process of getting over it. So it was good news. They put him on a med to give him a kick start at feeling better. He's had 3 pills and now you can tell he's feeling relief. He's actually been out of the blanket. Like he's saying Thanks I needed that.

End of the World?!?

So yesterday was supposed to be the end of the world according to the Mayan's. Well here I am today so I guess we survived haha. It was a bad day for us though here's why.....

Sorry for the icky picture. In case you can't figure out what those are those are dog teeth. I have 2 dogs. One is a puppy mill dog and has a lot of issues. I love him but he's insane haha. Then I have Izzy. She is one of those dogs that you are lucky to own in your lifetime. She is my little baby. Wednesday evening I noticed a golf ball size swollen lump under her eye. I called the vet and they said it was more than likely a tooth issue. They got us in Friday morning. I dropped her off at 9:30 which was really hard. I was very emotional about leaving her cause dogs just don't understand those kinds of things. I was very proud of Jeremiah for comforting me and saying Mom she's not just a dog she's your baby. The house was so sad without her here being my shadow. We went back to pick her up at 3:30pm and she was so out of it she had no idea what was going on. Come to find out she had an abscessed tooth and it ruined the tooth beside it so she lost two teeth. They gave her some meds too. The vet said I could have the teeth to put under her pillow. I just wish I could get the $200 back from the dog tooth fairy....Ouch!

Last night she was in a lot of pain and was very out of it. Today she is back to mostly normal. She's still being careful but from someone who's got a tooth pulled I totally understand her pain. She's taking her meds fine as long as they are covered in yummy meat haha. So it felt like the end of the world but at least now she is on the mend.

We leave to start our Christmas traditions tomorrow. We head down to my dad's house to spend the night. We are going to see The Hobbit and we'll watch National Lampoon Christmas Vacation. That's our tradition. Then Christmas Eve we wake up and do presents with my dad and Step mom. Then for lunch we head over to my dad's mom and dad's. We have a nice visit and open more presents. Then for dinner we head to my mom's mom's house. Yet more food and more presents. My poor tummy haha. Then we come home to have the sleepless night before the big morning. We can't wait. I'm like a little kid waiting too. We keep asking one another Is it Time Yet?!?!? I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas. Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog.

NaBloPoMo Day 3

The weekends of the NaBloPoMo are open for free writing. So here goes.

Yesterday we had fun shopping. Jeremiah came down with my lovely head cold though poor guy so he didn't have much fun at all. We went to Hobby Lobby first and I bought things for an exchange in ESC (my favorite yahoo group). We found some other things for presents and what not and then got out of there. They have really seemed to raise their prices on everything. Even on sale some of it is just crazy. Then we headed down to my stitching store Stitch N Frame. My mother got me some amazing Christmas gifts which are horrible cause now I have to wait till Christmas haha. Isn't that just mean of her? I also picked up the Pirate Dragon. The frame is perfect.

I told the owner that the stitching is only as nice as the frame around it and this just made my piece gorgeous. They said the people who saw it thought it was a painting. That made me feel really good.

I got the rest of the gifts for my friend. We are having this exchange called 12 Days of Christmas. You send gifts for the person to open one each day until Christmas Day starting Dec 14th. On the left is the package of goodies I sent today to Angie. I can't wait till she gets them and I really really hope she loves everything I picked out for her. I always worry the person will hate everything but I would enjoy these things so I really hope she does too.

This morning the boys slept in (hubby and son). I got up early and got my email all read, played my frontierville game, and started a movie. My mom went out Christmas shopping with Betty. She called at 10am and I realized the boys were still in bed. I went upstairs to ask them if they were planning on getting up at all today haha. Jeremiah still has his head cold but doesn't seem as bad maybe as yesterday. After they finally got downstairs we got the guinea pigs out to play. They had such a blast. They were running and jumping. It was so much fun to watch.

Tonite Fred's company is having his party. Don't worry Amber I won't make better friends than my geocaching buddies. You guys are too much fun. If you are reading this and you have spare thoughts/prayers please send them towards my friend Amber. She applied for a job she is really hoping to get any spare thoughts/prayers her way has gotta help. Thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving?

I always like starting positive. So yesterday I had a finish. This is JBW Turkey. I had finished the Squirrel and found out a friend of mine had the Turkey pattern. So we traded with each other. I used Weeks Dye Works thread called Sweet Potato. Figured that was appropriate for Thanksgiving time don't you? The picture turned out a little dark.

We had 12 here at our home for Thanksgiving. We had a lovely time. Unfortunately there was family not here but that's a whole lot of drama that I'm not talking about today. Grandma (My mom's mom) had a nice day and that's all that matters. We didn't have turkey we had ham so Jeremiah said we should call it Hamkey day instead haha. I started to get a sore throat the night before. Now it's a full blown head cold. Accompanied by one of those coughs that hurt your whole body. Fun Fun.

Guinea Pig Update....I noticed Fuzzy didn't look well at all Thanksgiving day. We gave him his shot and he just didn't seem okay. I told Jeremiah to get prepared. Thanksgiving night I glanced in the cage and he was going downhill quickly. He passed away in the evening. Jeremiah and I had a good cry about him. We buried him in the backyard. Poor little guy just couldn't make it any longer. We are glad he's not in pain any longer. So even though I was sick and it was Black Friday we knew we would head out and find another guinea pig for Fillmore to have a cage mate. So we headed out. Our first stop had good sales on supplies so we bought a cart full of goodies. Their guinea pigs were all girls though. So we headed to Petco and hit the mother load haha. Mom and me couldn't decided between these two. So I jokingly told to the girl to put it in the box and mom wouldn't find out. Yep you guessed it we have 3 guinea pigs now.

This is the 2 new ones. Gonzo on the right. Porkchop on the left.

This is our one we already had named Fillmore. He replaced Wuzzy after we found out he was aggressive. That happened about a week ago. So hopefully our guinea pig drama is OVER for awhile! We are pretty sure Fuzzy was sick since we got him cause he was never really active. When we brought the two new ones home they started whistling. The most adorable part was Fillmore got so excited and ran around looking for the other pigs he heard. When we put them together it was love at first sight and then ran and played and are still having so much fun together. I'm so glad they all get along and they love their pen and all their goodies. We are very happy critter owners now. I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving and is enjoying the weekend with as much relaxing as possible. I'm coughing and hurting but at least relaxing.

2 Days Progress

Here is my start of Severeielle which I have renamed Dragon Lady. I just can't for the life of me remember how to spell the real name haha. I got 600 stitches in each day I worked on it. So this is 1,200 stitches. I'm impressed with how quickly it's moving. There is a lot of big chunks of color so it's not like more other confetti filled HAEDs I've worked on. I just LOVE each stitch I make. I'm going to take a break and work on JBW Turkey now. It will be a quick stitch then I can go back to the lovely Dragon Lady. I just can't wait to see what pops out of the purple blob next. The darkness at the bottom is the start of the doorway. On the first page I should get to the little dragon's wing.

Guinea Pig update....He's still not doing great. We've went to the vet 3 times. They are giving him an antibiotic shot. The doc said either they make it or they don't so it's a good sign he's alive. They gave us an extra shot for tomorrow since they won't be open. Then we go back Friday. I just want the little guy to get better. I feel so sorry for him. One thing positive from this is I've fallen in love with the vet's place. They haven't charged me at all yesterday or today. It's amazing. Our other vet would gladly have charged us a few hundred dollars by now. This one said they just want to get him better for us. The med one day was $27. The vet fee for the visit is supposed to be $29. So far they have only charged us $27 total! We've been there 3 times and got 3 injections and another for tomorrow. I'm really really impressed with their care and concern even though he's "just a guinea pig". Jeremiah is really hoping he's going to get better but still prepared for the worst.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I know I complained about it in the last message. I'm just irritated with how mean and cruel some people can be. I'm so thankful for what I have in my life. I just wish people would take a second to understand No matter how bad things are they could always be worse. Take one second to stop and smile to stranger beside you. We all know life is hard but why not try to at least make our corner better. I'm smiling and just trying so hard to make it. Tomorrow after the chaos of lunch it will all settle down. Then I can relax and just love my family. I hope each one reading this can have a fantastic day full of love. We all deserve it!

Bad Day

Well first let's start this on a positive note. I had a finish a few days ago. This is a Mill Hill ornament. My mom wanted to take it to a party for her family on Dec 10th. I was worried I wouldn't get it finished in time. I started it right away and finished it a day later haha. She laughed at me for being stressed. Yeah well at least now I don't have to worry. Then I started the Christmas Chairs on the beach kit I got with mom and I hate each stitch. I don't know why. It's a Dimension's kit and it has half stitches and 2 threads here 4 threads here...maybe that's why. Or...I knew I was itching to start my new kitted up HAED. So I giggled and asked the family if I could start it even though I said I would wait. Remember when I said I would rotate between one and the other each month. Yeah that lasted what a few weeks. Not even. Anyway the Dragon Girl was screaming from the computer desk to stitch on her. Yesterday I couldn't control her any longer and she jumped over onto my Q-Snaps and started herself....Okay well not really haha. Most the time you start in this dark dark corner.....this design has BEAUTIFUL shades of PURPLE in the corner!! I'm in LOVE! Plus it's not a lot of confetti stitching so I got 600! stitches in last night alone!!! Helped a lot there was a WWE PPV so that meant a lot of stitching time haha.

Now onto the bad part.....I woke up this morning and realized it was Turkey Week. Thanksgiving always goes wrong. I don't know why. 3 years ago my grandfather was in the hospital and never came out. We host my mom's family here and that means cleaning and making the house presentable. I hate cleaning. So we always have a lot to do in a little amount of time. Yesterday I noticed one of my guinea pigs (of course my favorite Shh though don't tell the other one) was breathing heavily. This morning I noticed he was really doing worse. So I called a vet and got an appointment. Found out he has pneumonia and more than likely won't make it. Grr. Jeremiah is having a hard time cause we really love this little guy. They did give him an injection and if he lives tomorrow they will give him another one. So hopefully we got it in time and he'll bonce back. Just one of those things that leads to me hating this holiday. I just want to get to Christmas please. I just need to breath deeply and relax....I'm trying.

New Critters

Before my vacation to South Carolina my frogs past away. I loved those stupid things haha. So my family said when things settled down I could get something new to replace them. I've been doing research since. I had a lot of different critters while growing up and my mind kept going back to how much I loved guinea pigs. So today we hit the stores and these are our new family members. Jeremiah and me came up with the names Fuzzy and Wuzzy. Fuzzy is the one on the left side. Wuzzy is on the right. They have been so much fun already in just the few hours we have had them. Jeremiah loves their little whistle when they are happy. If you pet their behinds they start whistling so sweet. Jeremiah just giggles the whole time. I can't wait to see what fun we have to come from these little guys.