Lots of Tears

Tuesday was a very difficult day. Alison gave her two maltese dogs, Orange and Blue, to us to bring to Florida to stay. She has had them 7 & 8 years and loves them. They are great dogs and so cute. But they bark at everything and everyone who goes by and constantly wake Avi from his nap. Gerry refused to see them go to anyone out of the family, so....we offered to take them. It was a very, very, very tearful goodbye (I was crying just at the thought of Alison saying goodbye to her boys). We packed the car with their things and beds on top of everything else and were off. They were wonderful travelers, sleeping most of the time, sitting on my lap, and behaving wonderfully. We drove to Ocala and spent the night with Becca and Phil, before heading home on Wednesday. When we got home we thought we'd have problems with Rusty, our daschund. We knew that Tiemann, our maltese, would be fine because he is even tempered and had also lived with Orange and Blue in AZ for a year. But the boys all got along after the first two minutes....thank goodness! Now we have to settle in so we can be one happy family.