Writing Challenge

On Open salon, a writer there challenged other writers to expand on the Hemmingway one-liner that reads: For Sale, baby shoes, never worn. This was Hemmingway's attempt to tell a story in less than 10 words. Pithy and heart-touching. The writer wanted us to add to the story, so here are 2 attempts at that challenge.
I read all the entries of other writers and I wanted to try something that wasn't depressing and wasn't tied up in babies dying. While I can write depressive stuff, so many of the responses were in this vein that I wanted to offer up something a little less bleak or dark.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
They trudged through Babies R Us looking at everything and registering for nothing. They were both so disappointed to find out that they were having a boy. Not that they weren’t happy, just that they both wanted a girl SOOOOO bad! They are both glad he is healthy but they really wanted a girl. Now they had to change everything from pink to boy colors and all the little things they had bought had to be returned or sold.

At home, she sits in front of the computer and types:
For Sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.
Baby is a boy and the pink weeboks are just not gonna cut it.

She hopes that some mom out there will love them as much as she did.


Challenge respone #2
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Why on earth had she picked up the stupid things?!?!? She had no baby, she was never going to have a baby. She didn’t know any one to give them too. She is thinking hard and her heart is beating too fast. She can not take them out of her pocket because someone will see her and figure out that she is shoplifting. She walks out the door as calmly as she can and goes home to her quiet suburban home with her sweet husband.

She sits at the computer and types:
For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.

Here are some pics of our new foster dogs and Ruby at almost 2 years old. I love this outfit that Ruby is wearing so I had to take some pics. The dogs are Suzie Q (brown), Pete (grey) and Eddie (black).

Loving Life

We are enjoying a busy weekend. This weekend is adopt-a-thon for our rescue organization, Molly's Militia. We are working hard to get our two foster dogs adopted as we are getting 2 puppies on Monday. Here are the pics of our current monsters. If anyone knows anyone who is interested in adopting a GREAT dog, let me know. These two are SUPER!

This picture is of Ruby at 18 months old. We bought Camille a Hibiscus bush to add to our foliage in the front of the house since she is obsessed with Hawaii and all things Hawaiian. :) Shannon has since planted the bush in the ground.

This puppy was a temporary foster puppy we had for a couple weeks. She has a new home now and we are so glad for her. She was a sweet girl.

Next picture is our current foster dog, Catherine. She is a sweetheart. We are REALLY enojoying her. Even Ruby can walk her on the leash, she is so gentle.

Finally, the kids are going to the dogs. :) We did not put Ruby in the dog crate, she was sitting in there with the door pulled closed when I came into the kitchen. The door is not latched, she is holding it closed.

We also got video of her doing "tricks". When we were trying to get Catherine to sit and lay down, Ruby was doing the tricks. It was hysterical! Zach started giving her goldfish pretzel crackers for "treats", haha!


Kids are a blessing from God and even though we have days that are stressful and frustrating, at the end of the day there is always something that reminds me what a blessing my kids are. They make me laugh and give me great joy. They are truly my most awesome blessings.

My first post to my blog

Wow! I am joining the multitudes of millions of people who are already blogging and are light years ahead of me in the net world. I am blessed to be here and I hope that this blog will bless other people as well.

Please feel free to post your blessings in a comment and I will randomly post some for other people to see. We need to COUNT OUR BLESSINGS! This helps to keep us focused on God and what He is doing in our life. We need to remember to be thankful for our blessings.

I hope you enjoy reading the blog.

All the Best,
Carol O.