It Didn't Last Long

Well, we no longer have our precious little puppies. Last weekend, we surrendered them to the Maumee Valley Animal Shelter. They have a no kill policy, which I truly appreciate. It was just way too much to have an autistic five year old, a two year old, a baby, five cats, two untrained puppies, and a busy husband. I was losing my mind...literally! I hate it, though, in a way, because once again we have failed in the training and keeping of a dog. Russ and I have discussed it, and we are now going to wait until the kids are bigger, and are able to take on some responsibility for a dog. Also, maybe by then we will have a bigger place. Until then, it is just the cats. And they seem to have settled down now. There are still messes, don't get me wrong, but at least our home doesn't smell like "Poop City" anymore. After changing three kids in diapers, cleaning out three litter boxes (never soon enough for our cats), and then cleaning up after constantly pooping puppies, I'm amazed I didn't run out the door screaming!

More later.....

Okay, one more try.

Did I say that I was getting good at this? How wrong I was!

Okay, here is Isaac, my beautiful miracle boy. Can you tell that he is eating us out of house and home now? And he really loves his new school, our local MRDD school. They are wonderful. He goes swimming nearly every day, he is now eating with utensils, and he is starting successfully at potty training! I love his tenacity!!!

And I'll also try to get the new puppies' pictures on here. Roscoe P. Coltrane Ewing is the basset with the black face, and Lulu Coltrane Hogg Ewing is the Brown face girl. They are cute, at least in their pictures!

Okay, it looks like I have success. Now I'll publish and see what happens. Geez, by the time I get this done, my kids will be grown and out of the house!

More Photos for y'all

Let's try this again!~~~~~~For some reason, only Emma's picture came out last time. I'll try to get the other three here....if not, they'll come later!

This first one is the baby, Ronnie!!! Four months old, and gorgeous!! His personality is something else, too. And I'm proud to say that he is a momma's boy!

He never catches a break

Been a while.....not like I'm busy or anything....

We are in a battle right now with the Social Security Administration. My husband told me not to say anything about this on the blog, but at this point, I don't care. We are filing for SS Disability for Isaac, because of his CP, autism, mental retardation and developmental delays, etc., etc., etc. We were refused because they said we made too much money or had too much in resources. They got their figures from some ballpark numbers that Russ gave them over the phone. He didn't know he was giving them final figures. They had us making 150 dollars too much; however, they had our 1600 dollar truck listed at 2000 dollars, and our small 40 dollar a month checking account listed at 250 dollars, just like our regular checking account. The only thing we use the smaller checking account for is to pay the monthly tab for my gym membership.

Obviously we are way below their standard, but they didn't see it that way. So we are filing an appeal. We are gathering all of our eggs, and we are going to get this financing for Isaac. The problem was the attitude of the service reps that I was talking to. They are outright insinuating that we are trying to make money from our son! How rude, and how wrong. I can't believe that after all Isaac has been through, here he is in another battle for something he definitely deserves. In his five years of life, he has never caught a break! I may also contact our congressman about this. The rep told me that it was my fault anyway, because Congress made the rules, and I elected them! So....I'll contact that man I elected, and let him know what I think of these reps whose brochure promises that they will be pleasant and helpful!

I've been losing my mind anyway lately. Not just because of all this SS stuff, but we now have two basset hound puppies (Happy Valentines Day!). Roscoe and Lulu are a HANDFUL! So now I am daily dealing with five cats, two puppies, a four month old infant who is the size right now of a nine month old, a two year old toddler who thinks she's 22, and a five year old autistic son. That's not even counting picking up after my 34 year old husband! AAGH! My life is so full that I want to scream! I think I need Nanny 911 or Supernanny to come to thins house and give me some useful suggestions! She'd probably run away, insanely screaming!!!!! Russ says I wanted them, too, which is partly true. I love them, but let's be honest. He never outright asked me if I wanted the puppies. I just never disagreed with him because it wouldn't have worked! Once he gets his mind set on something, there is no stopping him!

Like the new photos? I'm getting the hang of this! Later...