So like I said in my last post, you may have heard we are now living in Portland. And now you also may have heard we added a new member to the family. No, I definitely wasn't pregnant, but the stork did bring us something pretty cute!
This is Clover, the new love of our lives. We'd been talking about getting a dog for quite some time, but being in school has really taken up a lot of my time and we didn't think it would be possible to raise a puppy in the middle of all of that. Then we found ourselves in Portland for the summer and the opportunity presented itself on a silver platter. The last two weeks have been a roller coaster of so many emotions. We read so many books, forums on the internet, got advice from friends, but nothing really prepared us for what has unfolded. But I can tell you that I feel so much love for this little ball of fur that it's really quite overwhelming.
There are a lot of stories I could tell so far, but most of them involve her potty behaviors, and I'm sure ya'll don't care about that as much as we do! I wanted to post my song of the week for Clover because it's my favorite memory with her so far. The first weekend we got her we were exhausted beyond belief. It seemed like every second we were either running, playing fetch, trying to get her to eat and go potty, and it all had completely obliterated us. So we decided to go out to dinner for a couple hours Saturday night in hopes she would just take a little nap and settle down. We got home from a great dinner only to find that she had an accident in her crate and stamped it all over herself and her blanket. We went into operation panic, disinfecting everything, putting clover into her first bath in a total frenzy with water going all over the bathroom, and her howling at the top of her lungs. After "operation restoration" was complete I laid down on the couch and could only cry because I felt like the worst caretaker alive. I can't even imagine what it feels like to have a real child, but that was a first taste of what it means to be responsible for another being's happiness and I felt like I was doing a terrible job.
Then in the background I heard this song playing on the iPod and it just calmed me. Clover is our little angel... there is no limit to how much she loves us. I can feel that from her every time she falls asleep in my lap, and every time she gives me kisses when I come home to play with her at lunch. Adding her to our lives feels perfect and I can't believe how much she is changing us in the two short weeks she has been here. There are a lot of things we had to give up in the beginning, but when looking at the big picture they seem like itty bitty grains of sand compared to how much better our life is with her.
"Angel"
Sleep Through the Static, 2008
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I've got an angel
She doesn't wear any wings
She wears a heart that can melt my own
She wears a smile that can make me wanna sing
She gives me presents
With her presence alone
She gives me everything I could wish for
She gives me kisses on the lips just for coming home
She could make angels
I've seen it with my own eyes
You gotta be careful when you've got good love
Cause the angels will just keep on multiplying
But you're so busy changing the world
Just one smile can change all of mine
We share the same soul
Oh oh oh oh oh ohhh
We share the same soul
Oh oh oh oh oh ohhh
We Share the same soul
Oh oh oh oh oh ohhh
Oh oh oh oh oh ohhh
Umm umm umm uhhhhhhmm









