Flashback Friday

Let me introduce you to Harley. He looks cute and cuddly, and at 5 weeks old he was-until he grew up...Fast forward to when he's 60 pounds and has a whole lot of energy-SATAN!
Kris would come in and sit on the couch and Harley would put on his "I'm a nice, obedient dog mask" and sit by his side without moving. Kris would leave for work and the moment the door would shut Harley would be attacking 18 month old Caed and jumping for my jugular! I am not embelishing the facts at all!!! Mind you, I thought Harley would be a nice, sweet dog that would protect me at night and sleep in my bed-boy, was I wrong. But, it's so amazing and funny how God works-we really couldn't handle him anymore but didn't want to give him away because we felt bad. So, one night we come home to a note on our door from the animal police that said we had be written up for a dog barking once at 11pm. We could have just said "whatever", but instead eagerly jumped at the possibility that our dog was making our neighbors mad and would possibly ruin our reputation. So, Harley found a new home on a farm where they had a shock collar and is loving it! (P.S. I like dogs, just not the ones I own!)

Where you can find them...

I finally found where I got my picture of today's shoe-
www.shoebungalow.com
I found a lot of other cool one's here. Have fun lookin'.

Sassy Shoe Thursday

I would absolutely love to have this shoe! I don't think I'm willing to pay almost $100 for it though- I'm really digging the brown and turquoise-I would wear jewelry to match the orange flower!

letting go...

I started reading Kris' Wild at Heart book last night. Not because I thought it applied to me, but because I like to be well read. Little did I know, it did apply to me! A chapter talks about little boys leaving their mothers and clinging to their fathers as a right of passage almost, so their fathers can teach them the masculine things that God has put in their hearts to know. How, if the father don't step in at this crutial time and the mothers don't let go as well, you can really mold your boys into things they will battle within themselves for well into their adult years...Wow. The thing is, is that I've been feeling for a couple of weeks now that Caed was clinging to Kris way more than me-which is weird because it's always been Mom and Caed. Now I know that this is the stage he is starting to emerge into-Kris will be imparting things to him that I cannot and Caed will be recieving things from Kris that will mold and shape the man he will become. Scary yet liberating at the same time, knowing that we have the opportunity to do the best we can do and identify it as it is happening. So, to the mom's of little boys- I highly recommend that you read the Wild at Heart book! There is a lot of great information for mom's in how to raise little men in the image of God.