Still Top Dog!

For almost 9 months my masters daughter hung out at our house. She became my new best friend, playing with me, petting me, and just giving me lots of attention. I looked forward to her being here everyday. But things were about to change!

About a week ago everything seemed different in our home. My mommy was gone at night time. Daddy wouldn't come home until late, and my masters daughter hadn't been here for days. What was going on? Then one day, my best freind came back, but everything was different. Attached to the front of her was the biggest sqeeky toy that I had ever seen. Naturally I'm thinking yay! A brand new sqeeky toy to play with. But this was no ordinary sqeeky toy.

Everyone kept telling me to stay away from this sqeeky toy. It moved and smelled like my masters daughter, and it made lots of funny noises. Of course I wanted to play with it, but people kept yelling at me to stay away. And to make things worse, my masters daughter wouldn't pay any attention to me, and for the whole time this big, sqeeky, toy would never leave the front of her. It just seemed to stay attached the whole time. I use to be top dog of my house, but now this annoying toy was becoming top dog, and I was getting very annoyed by it.

This was a very interesting toy indeed. I mean how could my family not expect me to want to sniff it, and lick it, and play with it? I was ready for this toy to go bye, bye. But no one would ever leave the dang thing alone. One minute alone with this toy, and I would surely try to snag it and bury it somewhere in the back yard, so I could be top dog again.

One day my masters let me get close enough to lick it, and get a good sniff. But there was something different about this toy..it was like it was fragile and needed my protection, like it needed me. Out of no where an instinct took over..and I felt that this new toy needed me. It needed my protection and my unconditional love. Each day my masters allowed me to get closer and closer to this sqeeky toy, and something inside my doggy heart knew that this toy was different, and I became very protected of it. For some reason I sensed that this toy was connected to my masters daughter, they smelt the same too..and I came to accept that this sqeeky toy was different, and that it would be around for a long time, and that maybe someday we would be best freinds!

I realized that I am still top dog of the house, and that my new mission is to protect this new toy that has come into my life, and that this toy is very special!

A Blessing Indeed!

One week ago today, we were sitting in the hospital anticipating the birth of my first Grandbaby. Ashley had been in the hospital since Wednesday, ( 2days) with a failed induction. The Dr.'s felt it best to do a c-section. My heart was filled with excitement, nervousness, and a lot of prayers going up to Jesus! As she walked down the hospital hall to the OR, I was not able to give her a hug, because she was already to go into the sterile OR room, so Dr. said no hugs allowed, so we all just waved to her, as we saw the anticipation, excitement and a bit of fear mixed on her face. We were all gathered together before she went and said prayers for the safety of both her and her unborn baby.

At 10:10 pm the nurse informed us that Deyton Joseph had arrived and that everything went well. We were waiting in her room, Steve, my brother, my siter in law, my niece, just waiting for the news. My eyes filled with tears, and my heart swelled with excitement. We were told that her and Dee wanted some time to themselves just to bond with the baby before we could see him. This was the hardest waiting time I had ever gone through. My sister in law and I decided to take a walk and see if we could find them. We just couldn't wait! As were passing down one of the halls, we saw a room that said OR. We pressed our ears to the door and sure enough we heard them talking, and baby crying. The anethesiologist opened the OR door, and both my sister in law and I almost fell through the doors. The Dr. and nurses wheeled Ashley into the recovery room, and out comes daddy as proud as could be holding his son in his arms. We took a quick peek, asked how much he weighed, and then we were told to wait.

Deyton Joseph is the most beautiful baby boy I have ever seen. I'm sure that all the Grandmas say this, but this baby is a beauty! He weighed in at 8lbs 15 oz..(but we tell everyone he's 9lbs) and 19 and 1/4 inches. Since Ashley had a csection she decided to come to our home for a few days to recoup. I can't tell you how thrilled I was! From Sunday until Thursday I got to spend my time loving on him and taking care of my daughter. My heart is filled with so much happiness and love.

About almost a year ago a friend made for me a journal, taken from a book named 1000 gifts. The goal is to pen atleast 3 gifts a day that the Lord has blessed us with. I started it in August, and it's so ironic that my 1000 gift that I got to pen was today, #1000 the birth of my Grandson! I have so much enjoyed doing this, that I have decided to continue. My goal is to get up to 10,000, as in the song. 10,000 reasons why I praise Him! Some day I will pass these journals onto my daughter and she can pass them to Deyton. It was in August of 2012 that I started this process and a few weeks later we found out that Ashley was pregnant.

Oh how I love my Lord! He is awesome and worthy of Praise! Thank you Jesus for my 1000th gift! It's the best ever!! Love Your Daughter of the King..!!10000 reasons why I praise his name!