Charlie & Jake

I've realized that I haven't blogged about my fur-babies....AT ALL!! Shame on me. This is Charlie & Jake:

Charlie is our Basset Hound. He will be 8 years old in October. He was born one week after our 1st anniversary. So he has been apart of our family for almost our entire marriage. He is absolutely spoiled rotten and its 100% my fault!! He has the funniest personality!  Until Jake he refused to drink out of a water bowl, he wanted it straight from the bathtub faucet and he prefers to nap completely covered with a blanket. He is a sleepy head and sometimes I don't even see him in the mornings before I leave for work. I just rest my hand on the mountain of blankets to make sure hes still breathing under there!! He definitely keeps us on our toes!

Jake has been in our family for a year. One day I decided that Charlie was "lonely" and he needed a friend to "keep him young"! This time I really wanted to rescue instead of finding a breeder. I searched our local animal shelter's website and found our Jake. He was called Bagel at the time(we changed that asap). It was a rough go at first when we brought Jake home. He was 5 months old when he got him and he had been owner surrendered to the animal shelter at 3 months old. We believe that he had been abused during his first 3 months. He suffered from extreme separation anxiety and was extremely fearful of Micah. To be honest at first I wasn't sure how it was going to work out. But we refused to give up on him. It took a good 5 months with us before he started to be comfortable with us and now a year later its like he always been here. We cant imagine not having him. Jake and Charlie are the best of friends. Jake is extremely loyal  and loving. He now is so excited for "daddy" to come home everyday .....a big change from growling at him every day a year ago!! 

Updates

So, I have pretty much disappeared for about 3 months. Sorry. Last time I updated we had just had our orientation for our GPS classes. At the orientation they moved the start date for our classes about a month out. Then the Friday before our classes were supposed to officially start (again) I received a phone call. Apparently one of the ladies teaching the classes had changed jobs so the classes will be put off again. As of today they have hired someone and hope to start classes in August. Thanks to my husband to making several phone calls to DHR to ask questions about when they would hire someone and start the classes. Without him I would have went crazy...I wanted to know the info but didn't want to call. I do not like confrontation of any kind and was afraid I would become upset with their lack of concern. What bothers me most about this mess is all the kids that need a home. Where is the concern for them? You always hear how foster families are needed because their are more kids than families. I just don't get it and to be honest it has made me so angry on their behalf. This has made me a little afraid of what working with the state is going to be like. I feel like we have been pulled back in forth like crazy and we haven't even had a class yet!! I have to remind myself daily that my God is the same God today as He was yesterday. He never changes. My life may give me whiplash sometimes but He is always there by my side and sometimes with me in His arms never changing. He knows how all this is going to look like in the end and I have to have trust in that. And in addition to that any child that needs me is worth all the back and forth we have to go through.