HAPPY 4TH EVERYONE!

This day has lots of special memories for me.  24 years ago I was in labor with my son in what was to be a 2 day unproductive labor that resulted in an emergency c-section.(he was already a month overdue)  I remember walking around the labor waiting room and watching the fireworks that were going off at a local park.  Every year since we celebrate his birth on the 4th (technically he was born on the 5th but we like to take advantage of all the celebrations) and the whole family goes to watch the fireworks display.  I'm so blessed to have my precious son. 

Today was one of those days that went by so quickly that I can't really put my finger on what I did.  I know I had a long lunch with my bestest friend and then a quiet dinner with my darling hubby. 

When we got home we took our 2 poms out for their evening walk around the yard.  They only succumb to this "treating them like regular dogs" because they know a treat comes once they're back inside.  Well...bless Dinah's little heart...she tried to bring in an extra little delight still attached to her rear area. 

Anyone that has a pom knows how important it is to keep them groomed and trimmed in certain areas.  I guess Dinah is needing her day at the spa because I never thought we would get her clean.

We finally decided to glove up and stick her rear over the sink.  My husband's holding her squirming little 5 lb. body and I'm trying to only wet what is absolutely necessary.     

 Pretty bad when the highlight and only excitement of your day is washing your dog's behind. 

Can anyone relate?

My plight the last few days has put me in mind of the scriptures about removing the spec from your brother's eye...

I have had something in my eye since I woke up yesterday morning.  Thought it was a piece of fuzz that would soon be discovered on the edge of my lashes and pulled free.  I spent the day searching for that irritating, minuscule particle of perversity...

I went to bed with my eyes liberally doused with theratears hoping to wash the blasted, devil-sent torment from my life.(now I'm in mind of Paul and his thorn in the flesh sent to buffet him.)

I awoke this morning with my eye puffy and red and a headache lurking on the edges of my consciousness.(and how's your day?)

Is the iniquitous fuzz gone?  Who knows...Now my eye is so sore from all of the rubbing and rolling in weird directions that I have no idea if the pain I feel was caused by me or that bane misfortune of waking with fuzz in my eye.

Who would have thought that the depravities of this world could be reduced to a small piece of fuzz in my eye.

And what moral dilemma (I mean lesson) have I learned from this ?  Maybe  my brother needs help with that spec after all!

All I know is I'm going to be reading those scriptures a little closer after this.  Maybe I've been missing something. 

(p.s.  please read this post in the spirit that it was written...you know...I was trying to be funny....not sacrilegious...)