This Moms Barefoot Journey

Happy 4th of July, everyone! Hope everyone has something fun planned - I know I do. It's called "a day off from work!" So this morning I slept in a tiny bit (not too late though) and then got up and started just doin some stuff around the house. The main reason I didn't sleep too late is because of Kane - the handsome dog you see pictured. He is the newest addition to the Cardin household, we got him last Tuesday! I hadn't posted anything about him yet, because we wanted to surprise people with him at our cookout (and boy was my mother-in-law surprised!) so I had to wait to post anything. Now I have the time to do it!

So yes, we now have Kane, along with our two cats, Molly and Maggie, and we have quite a busy little household, considering we don't have any kids! That's okay, we're not complaining about the not having kids part - pets are expensive enough for us right now! Kane came to us from the Freecycle listserv I'm on, his old family wasn't able to take care of him anymore, so we happily agreed to take him. He'll be a year old in about a week, and we're pretty sure he has separation anxiety - we can't go anywhere without him following! Don't even think about trying to put him in the back yard while we're in the house - all he'll do is jump on the slider and try to come back in. We're going to build a gate on our deck to make sure he actually stays in the YARD so he'll go to the bathroom on his own. We've had a few accidents with him, but mostly we attribute that to two things: 1) we don't know what all his indications are that he needs to pee, and 2) That he doesn't realize he's not done when he DOES pee outside and forgets that he has to poop too. That's been fun.

So anyway, over all, he's a good boy, and we've really enjoyed having him. Good thing too, were going to have him for the next 14 + years, I would guess.

So thanks to everyone who was able to make it to our cookout on Sunday, it was nice to have so many people there! I wish more of our college friends had been able to make it, but we figured that was the luck of the draw with the weekend we chose. Maybe we'll do another one around Labor Day or something, to officially end the summer. And in case anyone is wondering, Kim is feeling much better now.

That's really about all the news from here though. Not a very exciting post, I know. But if you're interested in coming over and meeting Kane, please e-mail me or something!