The Daily Toilings Of A Part Time Stay At Home Mom

Mornings have gotten a little crazy over here at the Jaffe household.  It usually starts around 5:30 maybe 6:00am, if I am lucky.  One of the children will wake up and instantly be starving.  Starving like they have not been fed for days.  Yelling for food like it might be their only meal of the day.  I, half awake, stumble down the stairs to see what delicious box of cereal   delicacy I can whip up in a quick hurry while tripping over the dog seven million times, because now he's starving too.  Doesn't matter that there is still some kibble from last nights meal in his bowl, this dog wants some fresh stuff. By this time the caffeine headache has set in and all I can think about is coffee.  That's usually when the other child will awaken from their slumber, screaming for food or a BABA! Now almost three quarters of a hour has gone by and I still have not managed to 1) pee and 2) get a coffee down...

Well as announced on Facebook already, we got a dog.  After a long and exhaustive search we found our dog on the last place I thought I would ever find a dog...Craigslist.  We went to all the local rescue leagues and mostly found that they have A TON of restrictions when it comes to adopting a pet.  On top of the 4 page application there are 2 professional references needed, all of the family needs to meet the dog, there needs to be mortgage statements and they want you to agree to all sorts of terms like puppy classes etc. which I get but holy cripes what happened to just getting a dog. Months went by and I had all but given up.  There were several close calls where we would see a dog on the website, call and drive to the shelter only to be 5 minutes late and the dog was already adopted or seeing a dog we loved and then having the adoption counselors tell us that the particular dog we liked would NOT be a good fit for our family. It was ...