(Note:  I’m still working on the post about how we decided to get Summer; stay tuned.)   Summer has been through so much over the past day and a half–leaving behind everything familiar and being set down amidst all things new–I am trying to spend extra time with her, sitting quietly, petting her, and doing my best to help her feel secure and comfortable in…

I have a much longer post about the newest Smith I’m working on but I’m not going to be able to get it all finished today so will just a few pictures for now of Snowy’s successor. Our new doggie’s name is Summer. She’s a 5-year old, six pound Champagne Yorkie. This is what she looked like when I first laid eyes on her last…

I didn’t tell you earlier but Steve, Sarah and I are pregnant!  With a new Smith family member! We will “give birth” around midnight tonight to a five-year old, 6-pound girl doggie.  (Midnight is when Steve is arriving from the faraway place where he had to go to pick her up.) Even though it’s a school night, I will get Sarah up right before Steve…

Sunday afternoon, after I’d had my requisite post-morning service, mid-afternoon nap,  I happened to take a little gander at the dresser in our bedroom.  And that simple little gander turned into an all out, full-fledged spate of housekeeping horror. My dressers! They were dusty!  Dismayingly, discouragingly, disconcertingly dusty.…