Over the weekend, my puppy, Shorty, died.
He was 14 years old and was in poor health for a short while. He had a series of seizures and my mom finally took him to the clinic where the vet confirmed the seizures were actually heart attacks and Shorty had cognitive heart failure. She gave my mom medication and I hoped that would've extended his life.
They found him dead in his
Tag: parenting advice
The current issue that is stressing us the fuck out plaguing our family right now is where to send Bear to elementary school. We're not talking for a year. We're talking something he'll like for five years or more.
While we were assigned to a school, it's not one that we want to send Bear to. The Great Schools rating is lower than hell, and some online reviews of said
My Mother's Day weekend 2016 is something I won't forget anytime soon. We went to the #LALovesPrince concert on Friday and it was super fun! (To see our adventures, click here.)
And then Saturday happened.
Bear had a slight limp on the night of the concert and I didn't really think anything of it because he did walk around a lot. Saturday morning, however, his limp grew more pronounced and it
Judging.
Side-Eyeing.
Taking a second look.
Yeah, we've all done it. You see something either in person or online and you take another look at the situation before you pass judgment. When people say they don't judge, bullshit! They do judge! It's how we elect state officials. It's how we test drive cars. It's how we choose schools, either for us or for our children. It's how we decide who we want
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I really don't like giving unsolicited parenting advice to other parents. It's pretty simple: 1) It's not my kid, and 2) it's not my kid. See? Pretty simple. While I may not agree with some parenting choices and I may have to silently question the type of parents they are, I also have to check myself. These are people who's doing the best they can or they have