Right on Time

I know I've written about the new sweet love of my life, Marbles, our 10 week old golden retriever, but I know I haven't shared all the little things about this precious being and the process of bringing him into our lives that have made it, "oh so very special".

I know that if you are an avid reader you know that our sweet 12 year old golden, Waffles, transitioned back in September. We had a long last 5 months with him. He started having seizures in May and we discovered a tumor on his brain. We decided to treat the tumor with radiation treatments because of the location of the tumor it was deemed inoperable.

Our hope was the treatments would reduce the size of the tumor and the seizures would stop. Once the treatments were complete and he was on seizure control meds, the seizures continued, even with increased dosages of his meds. Our hearts were slowly breaking with each episode.

Towards the end it got to the point where he was having small continuous seizures and the sweet little Waffles energy that he always had was gone. The last 24 - 36 hours of his life were some of the hardest hours of my life. I was and remain ever grateful that Keri and I were in agreement when we decided it was time to set his spirit free.

We knew we did every single thing we could have done. We had no regrets regarding how we raised him, fed him, trained him, decided how to deal with his ailment and in the end how we decided to provide a graceful way out of his suffering.

We grieved and we grieved HARD!!!

Now that I've practically brought myself to tears, let's focus more on how special the process has been bringing Marbles into our lives? The coincidences are far too frequent and obvious not to mention.

We knew Waffles was going to go before we were ready and had discussed how long we would wait to get a new puppy. We agreed that we would wait until we were ready. Waffles transitioned on Sunday Sept. 21st and by Tuesday Sept. 23rd we decided we were ready to have a happy little puppy energy in our lives. We knew it would be a process, so we wanted to put our feelers out and see what would come of our inquiries.

Keri reached out to several Golden Retriever breeders and it turned out that, Judy, the breeder we got Waffles from had two momma dogs that were pregnant. One of the momma's, Chatter, was pregnant with a litter from Paisley, a son of the great, Rolex. Rolex was Waffles' daddy.

OMG!!! If Chatter had more than one boy in her litter we could have a nephew of our sweet and precious Waffles. The reason Chatter needed to have more than one boy was because Paisley belongs to Judy's son and he wanted to have a boy from that litter for breeding purposes.

We would have been just as pleased with a puppy from the other litter. We met both the momma dogs and they were so sweet, but as it turns out Chatter had 2 boys and 7 girls. The important part there is that she had TWO boys. We were in!!!

During that initial conversation Keri had with Judy, Judy shared that Rolex had just transitioned in May, right before his 16th birthday and right when Waffles began having seizures. So, in Sept. when we were talking about getting a new puppy we realized Waffles had returned to his spiritual realm where his father was as well. I have to admit this news provided me with a little comfort, just because I felt like Waffles had his Daddy to provide him some guidance in his new realm.

When we found out Chatter had the puppies, we learned they were born on October 23rd 2014. Why is that significant? Well, two reasons: 1) the puppies would be 8 weeks old the weekend before Christmas and right at the perfect time Garrison was coming into town from Oklahoma for the holidays, enabling him to go with us to get our second puppy from Judy. Garrison was 12 years old when we went to Judy's to pick up Waffles. Now, at 24 he went with us to pick up Marbles, right on time. 2) Over the last year or so, Keri and I have been planning an event with family and friends to celebrate our marriage and our relationship in 2015. The date? October 23rd, 2015. Marbles will be turning one on our event date and yes, he will be there. October 2015, Keri and I will be celebrating our 20 year anniversary and our puppy's birthday.

Are you beginning to believe this puppy was meant for us? Yes, us too. See how remarkable the coincidences are? Wait there's more!!!! Saturday when we took Marbles to his very first vet appointment, a well puppy check, his doctor, Dr. Shannon Williams gave him a new toy. It was a little blue bear and I kid you not one little bit. That blue bear was exactly like the little blue bear Judy gave to Waffles 12 years ago as his take home toy. The little blue bear she rubbed on Waffles' mom and all of his litter mates, so he would have some comfort in his new home. We still have that bear, well now we have two.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="673"] The blue bear on the right is the bear Judy gave to Waffles 12 yrs ago.[/caption]

 

Given that Rolex is the father of Waffles and Paisley and the grandfather of Marbles, and all the details I've shared with you here today, we decided to register Marbles with a very special name. His father is registered as Wood Duck Time Well Wasted "Paisley" his mother is registered as Wood Duck Time to Talk "Chatter" and our puppy, their son, is registered at Wood Duck Right on Time "Marbles".

Kismet

I was just about to start this blog with an apology and then I decided, "No way". I'm not about to apologize for the excitement I have in my life right now for the little being that is about to bless this house with unconditional unstoppable puppy love energy.

I know I posted quite a few pictures and a video of our new addition on Facebook over the weekend, but we are so excited to have little Marbles in our lives. The litter reached their 8wk mark this past week and most of his litter mates went home, but before we knew we were getting a new little guy in our lives we made plans to go to the beach for Christmas.

We decided it would be much better for Marbles to stay with Golden Grams, our breeder (Judy), while we went to the beach. We want his first place away from his birth home to be his forever home for the ease of transition on him.

He won't be alone. Don't you worry one little bit about him. He will have his puppy Momma, Chatter, there with him along with a sister and a brother. Plus there are plenty of animals at Golden Grams house.

We went to see him this weekend, even though we knew we would be leaving him there with Grams. We sat in the barn with all the families that were there to take their babies home and visited and played with puppies for about three hours. It was so much fun and we are so freakin' excited. We literally keep eking out little squeals of delight. Sunday morning when we were pretending he was already here, Keri said, "We're going to have to calm down when he's actually here. We need to be the calm leaders of the pack that he will need to feel secure". She's so cute and so ready. She placed his crate in it's place in the bedroom, so we can acclimate to it's presence so we don't bump into it and startle the little guy in his sleep.

OMG!!! I just remembered that we were watching, "I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown" on Saturday evening. That was the day we went to see Marbles, and like we had never seen it before this scene comes on,... and I don't know how familiar most of you are with Snoopy and his cast of characters, but Keri has been a huge fan since she was tiny. She had a Snoopy bathing suit when she was little and carried a Snoopy around with her everywhere. She had, what she thought was all of Snoopy's siblings too and used to build houses for them out of record covers. So, we always watch all the Carlie Brown specials.

This time though we saw something we had never seen before. Rerun, Linus and Lucy's younger brother really wanted a dog for Christmas. He went to Charlie Brown's house and asked if he could borrow Snoopy. Snoopy wasn't having it, but the subject of Snoopy's siblings came up as an option and the very first one mentioned was Marbles.

Wha- wha- WHAT????? Yes, that's right. Keri's lifelong love of Snoopy and all the years she has watched Snoopy cartoons she never remembered him having a sibling named Marbles, but there he was clear as day. We quickly jumped on the interwebs and Googled, Snoopy's brother Marbles.

Lo and behold, there he was. So, not only is our Little Marbles a nephew of Waffles, but his namesake, is also a brother to Snoopy. This could not be any more perfect!!!

Blessed Beyond Words

Hey, have you ever had one of those days? I'm sure you have. You know the kind of day where it seems like no matter what you're doing, every little thing you attempt seems to work out just perfectly. You drive up to the light and just as you think to lift your foot off the gas to press the break, the light turns green and with ease you simply make your way through traffic. Even better, you begin a conversation with someone and some magical power, or so it seems, places all the perfect words in your mouth to enable you to effortlessly connect with that person in a way that you know touches them in a deep and meaningful way. It's kinda like you are living the reality of that movie with Matt Damon, The Adjustment Bureau. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

Well, today was one of those days for me. It was a most amazing day in my life. Everything seemed to work out perfectly. I have been tapped in, tuned in and turned on all day long. Here is a tiny snippet from my day as an example, A brand new patient walks in my office and I greet him and ask him, "How are you?" His response was something along the lines of panicked and rushed. The next words I spoke came to me so effortlessly it was as if I was surprised by my response as the words fell out of my mouth.

I said, "Well, I am calm and poised and you have just entered my world so have a seat and feel the calm embrace you". I could feel myself do a double take on the inside like, What? what did you just say? We chatted briefly about being real, avoiding bull shit, having magical powers and dental insurance. He had his appointment, got scheduled for his next and was walking out the door. Before he crossed the threshold he spun around and looked around the waiting room and said in a puzzled tone, "I feel like I'm leaving something behind,..." I smiled and said, " You are. You don't have that panicked and rushed feeling anymore". He smiled a knowing smile, waved goodbye and said "Yup that's it" as he walked out the door.

I am loving my life. I am feeling absolutely amazing about my perfect place in the world. Everything is working out perfectly in big and small ways. I love it. I want to shout it from the mountains tops. Thank you to all you beautiful cooperative components. I am a blessed woman.

It just keeps getting better and better

Life is so truly AWE-MAZING once you decide to accept was is and focus on what makes you feel better. Here's a PERFECT example that Keri and I experienced this week-end.

We walked our cute little in-love selves down to the local Farmer's Market/Fourth of July parade and while perusing the variety of booths at the market we discovered a beautiful display of jewelry and we were instantly and simultaneously drawn to the same exact green pendant. It was serpentine. Holy cow!!! My mind is completely blown. I just looked up the attributes of this particular stone which by the way is also known as Angel stone. I did not know that until just a moment ago when I looked it up. I am NOT kidding you!!!

Anyway, that is a bunny trail from my original intention. I will get back to that or reveal more on that later. Right now, I want to get back to this perfect example. So, we are knowing what we are wanting and we decide to purchase this beautiful green stone. We didn't know what kind of stone it was when we decided to purchase it. We got out our card to pay and the dude running the smart phone card reader was having trouble with his card reader. It was outdoors and there was a glare, his partner/girlfriend/wife (not sure) asked if she could help him and she took the phone, my card and announced that she hated this phone and this app because it never works for them. They might have to go down to Ruby's tent because she seems to be the ONLY one of them that has any success at operating the app and card reader.

Keri and I gave each other the knowing glance, because we knew as soon as she uttered those words that it was not going to work. She was very sweet to us, but was clearly very frustrated with her device.

We walked down to Ruby's tent after several failed attempts to charge our card and the gal continued on with her description of how she hated the smart phone, her service provider and the app. Guess what!!! I never worked. We knew it! We were not bothered at all by the fact that it didn't work, because that is what we expected would happen based on her announcement and fabulous description. It happened exactly as she said it would happen. We were just waiting for her to realize she was getting what she was putting energy towards receiving.

She was very sweet and apologetic. She offered to let us take the pendant without paying for it, for now, until we could get some cash. We walked down to the parade and watched for a bit and then headed to an ATM machine. We got the cash and went and paid for it. It all worked out perfectly. *Side note - on the way from the ATM to pay for the green pendant is when I was gifted the perfect piece of wood from the clay pot/succulent vendor. See blog, You know it feels so good,... It sure seems like everything is always working out for me.