The World Needs More Saturdays

Look at this picture of J on Saturday:

He's having a good time at the Hemophilia Association's annual disc golf tournament.

We took a stroll around the park and hung out There was actually a box car tournament going on as well. It was a pretty good time - and it was for a good cause.

This is one of the things that I love about Omaha. There is always something going on that is worth checking out.

The big event this week, of course, is the college world series. We managed to score some free tickets to the event and had a good time there as well.

Omaha is a pretty cool city. Definitely worth checking out.

And for more information on Hemophilia, check out the National Hemophilia Association's website: www.hemophilia.org - we were participating in the Heartland Hemophilia Association's event: http://www.heartlandhemophilia.com/

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s

Chompsky Update

He's up for adoption now: http://www.petharbor.com/pet.asp?uaid=NEHS.A687038

This has been so hard!

I really want to go get him and bring him HOME. I know what we did was the right thing, but I sure miss him already.

:(

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s

J goes swimming

AT got the afternoon off today, which was unexpected. So we did what any good parents would do. We took J swimming for the first time:

I think he's a natural! 

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s

Smart Phone

I actually considered getting a smart phone today.

But it turns out it cost money, so I'm out.

I must be the last twenty-something in the world without a smart phone.

Is that a bad thing?

Nahh

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s

Bucket List

The bucket list has become quite popular these days, and for good reason. Goals are awesome and it's fun to think about all the cool things that you want to do.

So, I decided to be trendy and make one too. I'll post something from it every now and then.

To run a half marathon.

I know, it's not as awesome as running an freaking marathon, but don't think I could possibly devote enough time or energy to do that. So I picked something a little more realistic.

I've tried to look up how to train for one of these shindigs... but I can't even figure that out.

But someday I will. :)

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s

Chompsky...

It didn't seem right to talk about a daily happening in the "launch" post of my blog. So I'm writing a new one. The cute puppy you see here is Chompsky.

I have to tell you the truth... I love this dog. He's two years old now, and he's lived with us since he was 8 weeks old. I got him when I graduated from college. It was a present to myself. It wasn't the smartest idea, really. We weren't ready for a dog. A few short weeks after getting Chompsky, we packed our bags and moved from small town, Kansas to Omaha. It wasn't the best thing for a new puppy.

But we love him. He's our boy. (By us, I mean me and my husband AT).

Today was a really, really hard day for us. Today, we gave Chompsky up for adoption at the Humane Society.

It was not what I wanted to do.

We have a 6 month old son, J. He recently became mobile. He now crawls and pulls himself up on things. There is no stopping him. Unfortunately, it turns out that Chompsky is terrible with babies.

At first he just tried to avoid J., but this past weekend he snapped at him. Several times.

He had to go.

It was a very, very painful decision. One that I still feel regret about. I know it was the right thing to do, but it feels awful to leave your boy in the hand of strangers. There's no guarantees on this one. I'll never know what happened to him. I hope he finds a good home.

We tried to get family to take him, but it was a no-go.

I've been crying all night over this. I hate that it came to this.

I guess this is the first really painful sacrifice that I've had to make for J. He's totally worth it, but it still hurts.

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s

Launch

I guess this is the "launch" of my blog.

I'm not sure what the goal of this thing at this time.

So what do I plan to talk about?

I don't know.

Life things... like family. or crazy things I see on the news.

We'll see how it all goes.

I need a place to be me, so I'm hoping this is it.

The question is why I've decided it has to be public.

Hmmm.

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s