Bad Mother Part 2

Argh!!!! I am such a bad mother to our dog. So this morning I was checking his mouth before I was going to brush his teeth and noticed that part of his back molar tooth was missing. There is a huge break in it and a huge chunk is completely missing. Now I have to take him in to the vet today, which is not one of his happy places, probably more so after his "procedure". And someone is going to be messing with his mouth which he hates it when I look at it and they are going to poke and prod it and possibly worse if they have to drill at it or remove it. I don't know how this dog is going to forgive me after this. Worse thing is that I don't even know when this happened. He has been eating fine, so it must not hurt that bad but he was wincing when I was poking and prodding at it. Now he is hiding under my covers sleeping. Poor Archer.

On to happier news after my previous ranting and raving...

We got invited to eat Thanksgiving dinner at a family's home. Beka (since we have the same name it is nice that she like to go by Beka and me Becky) and Basil are the same age as Matt and I and they have 4 kids, one of them is in my primary class, and have been married for 10 years. She was married at 16. It is nice that they are the same age as us but 10 years married. I can't even imagine being married at 16 in high school. So weird. Well they are from UT and have no fam out here so it will be fun. We are going to have a full Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimming and just split who is making what. So far I am making the Honey Baked Ham, yum, potatoes, yummy, bringing the greens, yummier, and a streusel pumpkin pie, yummiest! She wants to fry the turkey, not sure what that means but I do know that doing that is one of the largest risks for fire at Thanksgiving, the rolls, stuffing, and not sure what else she is doing. It will be good none the less. Anyhew that's all at this end of the US. Stay tuned at the same Allen channel for more to come.

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Well Archer and I just got back from the vet. He has a lateral tooth fracture. Instead of a vertical cut on the tooth, just the side chunk of tooth was broken off. There is still a piece of tooth in his gums that they have to put him asleep and go and get it. At that time they will see if they can salvage his whole tooth or remove all of it. It is his left molar tooth that has been damaged. He has his apt for Monday morning and it will take a few days for it to heal. At least I am off all next week from teaching to help him. Starting today I have to give him some antibiotic pills, which I have to force feed because he hates taking pills, and a mouth wash stuff I have to squirt into his mouth on his teeth especially the back molar. He is so mad at me now. Well we'll see how he does for the next few days.

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I took Archer to his surgery today. We just got a call from the Dr's office and he did fine during the surgery and they were able to save his tooth. We get him back tonight.

I did a ton of Christmas shopping today. Since we are mailing all the gifts we have to get them quite early and sent out early to make sure they gett there by Christmas. This week since I am not teaching I am decorating the house. I was going to put up the lights on the house, but I think it would be better if Matt was there, just in case he had to call 911 cause I fell off our house. Still trying to figure out how we are going to put lights up and where we, correction, I am going to be putting them. Matt is such a Mr. Grinch about decorating. Anyhew, that's all folks!

Veterans Day

To all the men and women who have served and are currently serving in our wonderful military, Thank you for risking your lives to protect our freedom and our way of life. Including Matt who would do anything he can to remain in the military and fight for our freedom.

Why us?!?

So now that winter is quickly approaching we have had to start using our heater because it is getting very cold at night. Well I turned it on the other night and could have sworn that I heard it running at 3am and when I woke up it was freezing in our house. I checked the digital thermostat and it was completly blank. I pushed all the buttons and turned off the breaker power and then back on. Nothing happened. I removed the face plate and nothing. So I located our contractor sup in the subdivision and asked if I had to wait 11 months to report this, inside joke, or if it constituted as an "emergency warranty fix." He said that it was considered a emergency fix and asked that I call the company who installed it. They guy came out yesterday and said he fixed it and the heater was one, current temp inside the house at the time was a balming 55 degrees. 30 minutes after he left the heater died again, go figure. I called him and told him what happened and he said that he thinks that it was the actual circuit board that needed to be replaced but the earliest that he could get one would be this morning. Well he spent 3 hours here today trying to fix it. The new board still did not fix the problem . He ended up swapping our brand new pretty digal thermostat reader for an old ghetto 80's style ugly thing. Well it has now been 30 minutes that he has been gone for and the heater is still working just fine. He said that he will bring a replacement reader next week and to call if there are any problems. Everyone cross your fingers that nothing will happen.

Archer has finally almost completly healed from his "procedure." About a week he was trying to clean all the adhesive glue off his area which caused swelling to the area and I thought that his stiches were going to bust off. Now he just has a scab there and I have to spray this bitter apple stuff on him so that he won't lick at his "boo, boo." He is adjusting very well. He is more of a momma's boy now and won't let me leave a room without him right on my heels. He also is more cuddly than before. The missionaries said that he looks different, and they make fun of him calling him an "it" instead of a boy dog. You can't get good help these days, now Archer is going to have to get therapy to help him cope with the loss of his manhood. (j/k)

Matt returns home today from a business trip to DC but leaves again on Sunday morning for another one to St. Louis for a week. The funny thing is, that I don't remember him telling me that he was going to do a ton of traveling with this new job. He has been gone for at least a week every month since he started. He loves what he does and I am proud him.

I have 16 students now, and a piano teacher in the area called me to tell me that she is giving my info to her students cause she is getting married and moving away. I also have about 6 others still thinking about taking lessons. Everyone says I have a ton of students but it doesn't feel like it. I am having so much fun. For halloween I dressed for my lessons and the kids had a lot of fun with that. I got one pix because we lost our SD disk for our camera. Not sure if I am going to post it or not. It didn't turn out very well. One of my students knew it was me but was so nervous that he couldn't focus during the lesson. That's about all in this corner of the US for us. Can't wait for Thanksgiving, I get my first vacation week from teaching. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. Sorry we can't come home for the holidays this year but maybe in a year or two.