Tales of a Tireless Mom
Tales of a Tireless Mom: Doggone it, There's a New King in Town
Adjusting to life as a dog family. Woof!
It was bound to happen sooner or later; I guess I just always thought it would be far into the future. But when the time came, I was helpless to fight it and went out not in a blaze of glory but rather with a sad, quiet whimper. The Queen has been overthrown. My family went and got themselves a dog. I’ve never had a dog. We had a cat growing up and so when Andy and I were engaged, we thought it would be cute to get a couple of kittens (you know, now that we were, like, 24 and SO grown up and stuff). Ripken and Smokey the Wonder Cat were with us for 12 and 15 years respectively and so whenever the kids initiated The Dog Conversation, the stock answer was always the same: “But we have cats; you wouldn’t want to make them sad, would you…
