Update and feelings on shame

Update and feelings on shame 

This is the second most recent family photo we have taken, and it's already 2 years old! It's been forever since I've written in this blog. 4 years actually. A year feels like a month; my life is quickly passing me by. I struggle to hold on to Jesus and hold on to the all the good, because He is good. Life may not be good, but He is good. The last post I talked about losing my dog Luna. I still think of her and every now and then call my new dog "Luna." Our new dog is named Indy Rose. She has these adorable ears that stand up naturally. She is loud and is barky. As much as I wanted a calm dog, I somehow attract the ones who are snippy and demanding. When we have people over, she barks at them quite a bit and then finally calms down. She barks at me to let her out. And sometimes she just barks when she is excited and needy. She does have another bad habit of being naughty and getting into our bathroom trash and spreads the trash around. She wants more attention than I can give her at the present life stage. She also does this really annoying thing and hunts the grasshoppers in our backyard and eats them. She doesn't get the nasty crickets; she gets the big honkin grasshoppers. The ones who are big as a small pet. I think those are respectable due to their size and should live. So whenever I see one of those in her mouth, I take them out and yell at her to drop it. She listens to me most of the time. The other disgusting habit she has is to express her anal glands in my car on road trips. It smells like rotten fish and will make you find your gag reflex real quick. So whenever we go on a road trip, we have to bring baby wipes and air freshener. It's so much fun! 

We also have a cat named Ally. We rescued her and one of her kittens. Her kitten who we named Alex died last year from a physical deformity. He had concave ribs. I found him lying in the grass by the hay bale one afternoon when he didn't come when I called him. And Ally, she disappeared for a two months and magically appeared again around Christmas time. She is a ninja. I've decided I like cats in my old age. I'm definitely not who I used to be.