Ruby!

It's been very easy for me over the years to resist the urge to be a pet owner. It's just never been my thing. My six year old daughter Sylvie on the other hand has been begging for a puppy for I think about 6 years now. The issue has popped up about once a month, and I somehow always managed to put it aside....assuring her that once we could pay for a fence in the back yard we would get her a dog. Well when I found out my little girl was saving her money to pay for a fence, along with a few bats of the big blues, I knew what I had to do. On the way to dinner one night Michelle and I quietly agreed amongst ourselves we would begin the search for a dog. Little did we know the search would begin and end that very night. After dinner, as we approached a stop sign, I noticed a man on the corner holding a hand made sign. As I tried to make out the words, my 1st grader (who reads on about a 12th grade level) shouted from the back seat "CHRISTMAS PUPPIES!!!" She didn't bother to read the rest of the sign...the part that said "$100." Anyway, that makes no difference. We pulled around and about sixty seconds later I was holding Ruby in my hands. To make a long story short, she seems right at home in the Gray household, and she's all to eager to lick our faces in the morning. My little Sylvie is quite happy and she doesn't even mind cleaning up the accidents...well not too much anyway. So I guess we have a new family member.