Daisy

Yesterday my husband took our fourteen year old golden retriever to the vet to be put to sleep. It was a very hard decision, and I have alternately bawled my eyes out and rationalized it for the past few hours. She had gotten progressively worse in the last few months, and she had a stroke a few days after the New Year. The poor baby couldn't walk anymore, she just scooched across the carpet to be close to us. Her head was tilted to the side, and she justwasn't our darling Daisy anymore. I'm, okay with it until I come home at night to an empty house. For fourteen years she was right at the door , tail wagging , happy to see us , and now when I come home it's to an empty house. Very depressing. the kids are gone, no dog, and Mike just comes home at night and sits in front of the TV. I should spend my new found free time writing, but I'm just to sad right now, maybe in a few days or weeks.

Happy New Year

Happy 2009. The new year finds us all well, busy with work and school and various activities. My New Year resolution is to post at least once a week, so we'll see. I'm only teaching 4 classes this semester instead of 7 so I should have plenty of time to write. I 'm working on my paper for the symposium in February and it's coming alone nicely. I have spent a good deal of time this week cleaning out closets, rearranging furniture and moving things around. We have finally moved furniture out of my parents house. It is incredibly sad to see it so empty, but I am glad that we all have pieces of furniture , pictures and other things to remember them by. I had coofee this morning in my dad's Belmont Abbey coffee cup which brought back fond memories of him sitting across the breakfast table drinking his morning coffee out of the same cup.
i plan to enjoy my last week of vacation before the craziness of the new semester starts back up. Of course enjoying my vacation means refining the syllabus for four classes, prelimarly lesson plans and assignments, reading the supplemental texts for the semester and other variuos tasks, but I do have a week so i can take my time.