Farewell, Lady

Today, we had to put our dog, Lady, down. About 15 years ago, she adopted us. She belonged to the family across the street but she came over to visit us whenever we were outside so finally we just asked if they minded if we kept her. It was okay with them and she was part of our lives since then.

It is sometimes hard to let go but you can hold on too long. While we will miss her, we will have many memories of her that will always make us smile. One of those was the Christmas morning that I have finished putting the hors d'oeuvres out and went upstairs to change my clothes. When I came back down, she had walked around the coffee table and had eaten all the salami and cheese slices off the plate!

Nothing like it

Not quite sure what this blog is going to turn into, but just wanted a place to share with my friends and family all the really cute, ingenious, funny, and special things that my granddaughter does and says. I am sure that there are times when she things I am pretty peculiar because I am always laughing when she says or does something which I am sure to her 4-3/4 years old mind is very serious -- probably thinks that her Gram has at least one screw lose and who knows maybe I do.

I am so grateful that I have had this gift -- there is really nothing quite like it. I can remember when my daughter was born that in addition to the tremendous love I felt was a great deal of trepidation that I was responsible for this other human being. When Alexandra was born, it was nothing but love at first sight.

So, be warned. This blog will contains tremendous amounts of bragging, sharing of pictures, anecdotes, and adventures.

Just so you can appreciate how really, really cute she is, here is one of my favorite pictures of my daughter and granddaughter.