Sunday

Gosh how life changes in just a few days:

Friday when I got home from work, dh has been looking at Pets Without Parents website every day at work and saw that they had a batch of puppies just come in.  I came in the house, pulled up the site, saw the adorable babies and the bad condition they had been rescued from and fell in love.  We immediately got in the SUV and went up to look at them.  Just adorable even with their bellies full of worms.  So hard to choose but we finally decided on one they called Giselle, strange name but she's a cutie.  They are daschund hound mix they think?  Look more to me like mixed with golden lab, odd bunch.  2 are golden yellow, 1 is white with short ears (Giselle) and 2 are are choc brown colored (the two boys).  The boys were the cutest but we only do girls.  So we filled out the application and got approval today.  We will have to wait till Thursday evening as they are getting fixed on Thursday morning.  So frugal just went out the window this month.  $175 adoption fee, trip to the Vet $45 and then Cocoa is due for her shots this month so another $200 for her.  Doggies are not cheap but so worth it.  We don't do vacations or go out to fancy restaurants, we stay home with our babies instead.

Oh one frugal on this:  We already have cages here that we have saved for the past 20 years a large one and a medium one so all set up for any new arrival.  I was trying to figure out what we could do about newspapers for the new pup since we don't get the newspaper anymore and we can't trust anyone else's used due to the threat of bed bugs in our city, what to do?  Remembered I have a roll of painters paper in my closet that I used to use for stamping designs and wrapping my soaps.  I think a roll now runs about $15 these are huge!  They are the same kind of material as paper grocery bags are made from.  So got the roll to start with and will buy more from Lowes as needed.  A good healthy alternative.  I thought about butchers paper but I think it's lined with wax which could slide around and hurt the pup.

Addendum:  This new little pup will in no way replace Windi but will help us in our healing and give a shelter dog a chance at a good life.  We don't give up on our dogs no matter what so no chance of her being sent back to the shelter.

Frugal was made a big batch of chili today for dh's lunches for the next 3 weeks.

Tomorrow dinner will be cheeseburgers and fries.

Tuesday I am off work and will make a big batch of veggie soup and possibly a meatloaf so that I can use up all the potatoes before they go bad.

Anna