Muddy Puppy

Many years ago my friends started having babies. I was not able to start that journey with them so we got a dog. He was my fur baby. He was 13 yrs old when he died on May 11, 2016. On that day I vowed to never get another dog. They are to much work and pain. I missed him too much to see past my grieve.

A couple months later I was at kids camp with my 9 yr old daughter. It was "ask God for what you need" night, I was handling some things in the back of the room, I finally sat down to just look around. As I sat there, a thought was dropped into my mind (I am pretty sure my daughter was praying at this time), the thought was my daughter needed a dog. She is an only child and would need a dog to comfort her when she was a teen or tween. So she was not alone. 

I was not happy with this thought process, I DID NOT want another dog! 

Well to make a long story short of a very stubborn mom, after my 40th birthday party we went to go find a new dog for my daughter. 

We got to the farm and I found the cutest little puppy I had ever seen, it was love! She was snugly and soft. Mean while my family found a puppy who out in the yard, covered in mud and running around with all the other dogs. I was ready to buy the small cute none muddy puppy, When another family asked to hold it, I looked at my husband and daughter as they played with the muddy puppy, and reluctantly let the other family hold my puppy. Yes, you guessed it, they bought the snuggle puppy and I was left with the one my family liked, the muddy puppy.

I am not even sure I held the muddy puppy, he was going to be my daughter's dog so no need for me to like him. As I paid for the muddy puppy, the clerk gave me the information on the puppy: shots, medications, and date of birth. When he said the date of birth, I gasped. Our new muddy puppy was born on May 11th,, 2016 right then I looked at my family playing with the muddy puppy in the corner and I knew God had planned this muddy puppy just for our family!

Now, Caspian Frodo is part of our pack, he loves all of us and boy, do we love him!