I'm going to Block Island, it's actually an island...

Well, technically I'm there already!

And let me tell you, it's BEAUTIFUL!!!

So that's all for today's post -- I'm going to enjoy the wonderful weather and view

Stitches, Derma Bond, and a bandage later...

Picture this: Beau and I are home cooking dinner... It's around 6:45pm when the phone rang. It was my dad asking if I could come over to take a look at Bow.

Let's go back a few hours, shall we.

My parents took Bow to get groomed. While trimming her ear someone had closed a door, scaring Bow. This caused her ear to get nicked. Complete accident and we still love our groomer.

Fast forward back to dinner time -- I head over to my parent's house to find Bow's ear dripping blood. Dripping! And when she shook her head, blood everywhere! It's after 7 by this point so instead of going to my normal vet, I called another local doctor who will see people after hours. He told us to come on up...

Now mind you, emotional panicky mom mode sets in. My baby girl is hurt and there is nothing I can do to take the pain away. My heart was broken while I looked into her sad, little eyes.

We get there and put her on the table. The blood had her fur all matted so he shaved her ear. My poor baby hated it! I don't blame her though - it probably hurt like hell. Once we got down to the cut, we saw that it was small but was bleeding like the dickens. The doctor decided that it needed to be stitched.

This was immediately after taking the paper towel off.
That's how much it was gushing.

That little thing causing all this commotion.

He put a stitch in her ear then we held a piece of medicated gauze on it for a few minutes. All looked good.

My dad and the doctor went to the front desk to do the paperwork. Of course, Bow shook her head and more blood FLIES! All over the floor, table, my shirt, pants, feet, on my arms, neck, and even on my glasses! As Beau put it, it looked like I was involved in a massacre.

I called the doctor back in and he decided he needed to Derma Bond her ear as well. After that, he put a bandage on to help keep the bleeding under control. Once we got home, there was still some blood when she shook her head but he had given her a tranquilizer before leaving the office so she was getting pretty sleepy.

By this morning, she was no longer bleeding and was good as new...

Well, if new meant a stitch, glue, and tape!

My poor baby girl!

Momma loves you and hopes you feel better soon <3

Cry me a river...

Tonight will be spent lounging on the couch, glass on wine in hand, and a box of tissues near by.

Why?

Because tonight on G&B is when they announce their pregnancy to their friends. I'm such a sap when it comes to things like that -- even the preview makes me tear up! Proposals, wedding vows, and pregnancy announcements, I die.

Another weekend was here and left...

First off, thank you all for your kind words on Friday.

We appreciate them more then you'll ever know!

And also to my anonymous Friday night commenter, I

posted that 2 months ago about a movie -- get over it.

Why do the weekends always seem to fly by? Friday night blurs into Sunday night and it time to start a new week. This weekend was pretty good though...

Saturday was the 100th anniversary of NJ's concrete mile and to celebrate they had a parade of 60 pre-World War II cars. It was pretty cool!

While I relaxed at home Saturday night, Beau was at game two of the Stanley Cup. So all night, I was getting picture updates. Him and his friend had a blast though!

Sunday night we went to my aunt's house for dinner (and drinks) and had a wonderful time filled with laughter

We looked through old photos trying to find my Nan's wedding picture and found my Dad's 8th grade class picture. Oh how times have changed...

Today is a rainy day in NJ... the hot summer temperatures have gone away again. It gives Sammy and I a good excuse to lounge around though!

I've also been listening to Ali Dee a lot lately... I love songs and her voice is amazing! You should go download her song!

Have a great day!!



Relaxation, you should try it...

What are my plans for this weekend?

Besides from working 6 hours tomorrow morning (ugh, I know)...

And making blueberry muffins right now...

And babysitting my nephew and nieces tonight...

NOTHING!

Nothing at all!!!

Because this happened yesterday to kick off the weekend/summer:

The lawn is mowed, all of the yard work that needed to be done is done, and I finished it off with a beer on the front porch!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

(and yes, I realize this post was pretty much pointless but I'm bored, ok)