This was a pretty busy week with Jody gone. We were glad he got an extra day home and we were hoping to get started on our paperwork Tuesday morning before he left. We thought we would at least have time to get our passport applications completed. Jody needed to leave at 10 so I told him we could definitely get it done before then. We went to get our pictures and Walgreens was too busy so we had to find somewhere else. We went to the UPS Store and they were fast, the pictures were awful but it was fast. Oh well, who cares what your passport photo looks like anyway, right? Then we went to the County Clerk’s office where we had to fill out this long form. They had only pencils so I assumed that it should be filled out in pencil. WRONG! They must be filled out in pen. So we started to fill out our 2nd forms but then the lady said “You do have a check or money order, correct?” Incorrect, we only have cash or debit card! Great! At this point Jody started to become very annoyed and began to roll his eyes and breath really loud. It reminded me of trying to get Ellie to do her homework. Not fun! The lady at the desk somehow found pleasure in telling us that we didn’t have everything we needed and we would have to come back. Jody had a 7 hour drive to Louisiana so we gave up and decided to try again next week.
Our drama for the week was when Bebe (new dog) finally had enough of Miley’s biting her and she swatted her out of the way. Her nail cut Miley behind the ear and I have never seen so much blood. We didn’t know what was bleeding but there was blood everywhere. Ellie was crying and panicking and had blood all over her too. It was about 4:30 so we (me and all 4 kids) rushed to the vet. They checked her and found only a small cut. No stitches, just an antibiotic and some pain medicine. $91!!!!!! Seriously? I don’t even pay that much for my kid’s emergencies. I was too embarrassed to tell them we didn’t really need pain medicine. She could tough it out. I thought that at least Miley might learn her lesson and be nicer to Bebe. She didn’t!
The rest of the week was pretty normal – school, homework, practices, playing with friends, giving Miley her medicine. We didn’t make much progress with adoption paperwork but we are going to work really hard next week!
