Broken Heart of a Pet Parent

Well, I write this blog with a heavy heart. Many of you know that I am a pet parent. I have pictures of my "babies" on this blog. I had three gorgeous Lhasa Apso dogs that are now in puppy heaven. Let me explain a bit....

Pancho became part of my life in 1989. He happened to be walking down the street chasing some kids in my old neighborhood. He was all dingy and matted. When I called out to him, he immediately ran into my arms. I was in love. I had just lost my previous "baby" of 17 years a month prior. So the timing was perfect. I convinced my mom to let us keep him and she agreed as long as I tried to find the owner first. Well no one claimed him, so he was mine. After we had him about a year he got injured by a car. The injury was to his back and he had trouble walking so the doctor recommended another companion dog to help his rehab....so then came Meechee.

Meechee was my little girl. She was the sweetest thing you've ever seen. She was always so prim and proper but she could be the boys up in a heartbeat. When Meechee was about 9 months old, she got out while she was in heat and found a boyfriend. Well my mom calls that dog "the rapist". Anyway, Meechee ended up pregnant by this little mutt and had 4 beautiful puppies. When it was time to take them to the vet for their check up, I ran into a lady who had a litter of Lhasa Apsos. Well she didn't have them, her dog did. And that's where I met Kingo.....

Kingo was soooooooooooo cute. He was a little bitty thing. All white with dark brown eyes and a big nose. I thought he would make a beautiful husband to Meechee. I wanted to have a litter of pure breed Lhasas, so that's how I ended up with my three musketeers.

We lost Pancho in July 2, 2004. He went to puppy heaven due to his old age. It wasn't because of his injuries but of just having long life. The doctor says that he was probably around 16 when we lost him. Since I didn't get him as a pup, I never really knew how old he was when we got him. Meechee left us to be with Pancho in March 5, 2008. I still mourn her loss. She was always by my side. I miss her deeply. She was a month shy of turning 17. Kingo went to puppy heaven a week ago to be with Meechee. I lost him on January 12, 2009. He turned 17 on December 24, 2008. He was 17. All of my puppies are gone now. I am very sad.

The reason I posted this is because many of you who know me know that I adored my little furbabies. My husband and I couldn't have children of our own, so we put all of our love into these little animals that I considered blessings. Some of you may think it's silly, but there are those of you who understand my pain.

Now we have the four cats that have come into our lives one at a time. But no more. They are a handful and keep us on our toes. They are a joy but just different from my puppies. They give their love in different ways, but love non the less.

Just wanted to share........................

A project completed!!!!

Well, it's Monday after the holidays. Eric and I spent a lot of time together while he was off. It was great. We got a lot of projects done around the house. I was really excited about one in particular. We cleaned out the attic. What happened was when we bought the house and moved in, in 1997, we put a whole bunch of stuff up there. I hadn't seen some of these boxes since then. My husband was off for almost two weeks, so he and our neighbor friend took everything out of the attic. I went to Home Depot and picked up some storage containers and started organizing. I also threw out a ton of things. I had save the bridal magazines I used to organize my wedding from 1994. Isn't that crazy!!! I used my handy little label maker to label the outside of the boxes so that we'd know what was in there. I felt really good about that. My husband then put in a whole new floor in the attic so that we would have more space. Now what's really interesting is that the attic is not a walking attic. So, my wonderful husband is so handy, he converted it into an extra storage space. Now we can take out the stuff from the garage and actually park our car in there.....Hee hee. So now I am going through the rest of the house to see what I need to actually store and other stuff that can me donated or trashed. I don't really like garage sales too much, so sometimes I'd rather just give it away.

I am so happy we finally got that project done. It's was on our "short term goal" list and then moved to our "long term goal" list then on to our "someday" list. So that someday has arrived. YEAH!

First time blogger

This is my first attempt at starting a blog. I had been tempted with the idea a few months back, but finally was inspired by my friend Lisa. She has a wonderful blog and I thought that maybe I could do something similar. My husband and I have so many friends and family around the world, it would be nice to keep them up to date with what's going on with us.

I also enjoy my hobbies such and dancing and scrapbooking with a little photography on the side. So this blog is goin' to be a hodgepodge of Me and My BIG ideas....BIG stands for my initials....Blanca Isabel Gomez.

Enjoy!