Meet and Greet Weekend! (Update)

Happy Friday Everyone!

This week has been a busy week for me work-wise, so I don't have any bookish content to share with you today. Blogger fail. Instead, I thought I'd do a quick personal post as my husband and I have a very exciting weekend ahead of us.

Most of you know that we lost both our boxers to cancer last year, their losses coming ten months apart and effectively bringing us to our knees as they meant the world to us. In the middle of all the loss though we rescued Gracie, our 3 year-old pit bull of ridiculousness, and she continues to be a bright spot for the two of us.

I've always loved having two dogs in our home, and while Gracie has been truly amazing about being an only child these past couple months, the house still feels eerily quiet to both of us at times and we miss all the silly moments that come with dogs being dogs together. I've been searching our local rescues for a while now to try and find a good fit for us and Gracie, and this weekend we're meeting with two potential new family members! *HAPPY DANCE*

We met with another just before Christmas and he unfortunately wasn't the best match for our family, but I have high hopes for this weekend. Tonight we're meeting with a 2.5 year-old pit bull named Lukas and I couldn't be more excited. LOOK AT HIS SMILING FACE!!! I'm madly in love with him already, so I've got all my fingers crossed that he loves us just as much.

On Saturday we're meeting with Eddie, a 1-ish year-old Staffordshire Terrier (in the pit bull family) and I think he's ridiculously adorable as well. From the information the rescues have provided on both I think Lukas is of a temperament comparable to Gracie's (a bit more laid back), whereas Eddie is more energetic and high strung. Kevin and I did high-strung for 9 years with Gatsby and Griffin, and while we loved them beyond words, we want our newest addition to fit with Gracie, so at the moment we're leaning more toward Lukas. I can't wait to meet both though, so wish us luck! Hopefully one of these handsome boys will be joining our family soon:)

UPDATE:

*sigh* So this weekend didn't go as well as Kevin and I had hoped. Lukas, while sweet and absolutely gorgeous, turned out to be the very opposite of laid back. It was pure chaos from the moment he got out of his lovely foster mother's car, and his sole goal once he met Gracie was to tackle her to the ground and not let her up. She held her own for a while, but we kept having to pull him off her and it was clear that after about a half hour it stopped being fun for her.

Eddie, conversely, turned out to be much calmer than expected, but still a bit higher energy than we're looking for. He was an absolute sweetheart though, so hopefully he finds the best home in the world soon.

Kevin and I know we're being really picky with this adoption, both Lukas and Eddie are amazing dogs deserving of great homes, they just unfortunately were not the right fit for us. We're feeling a little defeated and are going to put a temporary hold on our search for a new family member, but hopefully the right dog for us will turn up soon!

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Warmest wishes to all of you, I hope you have fun, book-filled days ahead. This has been a wonderful year for me with the start of a new cover design business, and though 2014 has come to a very bittersweet close with the loss of my Gatsby, I look forward to all that 2015 will bring.

The blog will be quiet the next couple days as my husband and I spend time with family and cling to poor Griffin like the grief-stricken parents we are (I think he's starting to get irritated with us ;-), but I'll have new posts ready to go up on Monday.

I'm going to leave you with Griffin, whose general ridiculousness has made me smile through my tears these past couple days. May all of your holidays be merry and bright:)

Much Love,

Jenny

Goodbye, Gatsby

I don't do many personal posts on this blog, but today my husband and I lost our eldest boxer to cancer and I felt compelled to go through every single picture we've ever taken of him so I could share a few. We brought Gatsby home this time of year eight years ago and he has been the love of our lives (as well as his brother, Griffin) ever since. Kevin and I don't have any kids, so Gatsby and Griffin are our babies, and the loss of Gatsby so suddenly is nothing short of devastating.

We had eight wonderful years with him though, and I know he understood that he was loved every minute of that time. You will be sorely missed, Gatsby.