Ups and Downs

Life is full of ups and downs and these past few weeks have been a ride of ups and downs.

we have made a deciion to put down one of our beloved dogs. She is a lovely natured dog and only young but she has health problems that are defeating us at every turn. Specialists, special diets, supplements, natural diets, drugs have not helped and I hae to admit if anyone saw this dog on the street they would call the RSPCA and try to have us popped in jail.

She is losing weight fast and isn’t eating much any more, it is painful for her to move or be patted. can only imagine what this “disease/allergy” has done to her insides.

We have fought it for 3 years but we are losing so this week we will take her in. Decision was made a couple of weeks ago but we haven’t been able to bring ourselves to do this.

An upside was that a lovely elderly lady that I visit regularly who became gravely ill has recovered and is now at home.

Another downside was a work incident that has left me with a 3 month wait to see if I have managed to catch something icky. Chances are very slim but life has changed dramatically because of the wait. Stupid, stupi, happening. DH at least has been a blessing and nothing but supportive.

Another upside is that although we were fully expecting to be flooded out with storm water when the torrential rain hit Queensland our house did’t get any damage.
I remember waking in the night to the pouring rain thinking ‘Should I get up and check?’
I didn’t in fact I thought I will just deal with it in the morning as there is NOTHING I can do to stop it. sandbagging won’t work. So I rolled over and went back to sleep. When I woke it was all dry. god cause to celebrate.

The baby moves and wiggles and kicks more and more. All tests have been normal and life on a whole is good.

At this time of year my urge is to nest and on top of pregnancy I must be driving most people mad. But they benefit form scones, muffins and cakes.

Gotta love winter.