Life is Beautiful

Motherhood, Sewing, Family

All ready for Halloween

~ Etc.

Our girls being part Chinese, we thought we’d embrace the culture and dress up in our heritage this year, which includes Achilles too!
I used this pattern, except I didn’t print it, I just roughly traced the pattern with a marker while looking at it on my phone.  And turns out… I did it wrong.  There’s a front and back separate patterns but on the phone it only showed the back pattern.  So I used two of the back patterns only, oops!  But it works, and I can’t wait to take him to his first trick or treat!

Achilles boy

~ Etc.

(this is one of my favorite things he does, every time I call his name, he tilts his head to one side and looks at me.)
Do you ever look at older pictures or videos of your children for hours?  I did that not long ago until 4 a.m. one night, and cried through it all.  Oh, why do they have to grow so fast?  And why do I bawl every time they show a kid leave for college on t.v or the movies?  My heart breaks thinking about how my two girls will leave us in 13-14 years.

But just the other day, I was looking at older pictures of our dog Achilles and boy, I thought my kids grow up way too fast, but puppies?  Why do they have to grow even faster?  I found these pictures of him when we had him for less than a month or so, and he was such a little bundle of fur!

Achilles kept chasing Ana which scared her quiet a bit.  It took Ana a little time to adjust to the new puppy, remember the first time she met him?
Still scared.  And a mommy who thought it was funny and took a picture instead of helping her.
Even though I wish he was little all over again, I think he grew up to be such a handsome boy.  I love him so much.

Achille’s dog house.

~ Etc.

Jay built a dog house for Achilles and it’s pretty intense.  You gotta see it for yourself!
in the process of building:
the finished result(without the painting):
the hallway blocks the wind or heat from going into the bedroom.
And this is the note he wrote to his family after he finished building it.  It sums it all up.
4.5 ft. wide by 3 ft. high by 3 ft. deep.  Custom window, door hallway and master suite with a view.  2x4s with 3/4 in ply. Weighing in at 400 lbs with insulated R30 walls and floor. 

Cheers,
Jay

And one more thing, the walls of the dog house is more insulated than our own house.  Yeah, of course it is, why wouldn’t it be? 😉  But Achilles deserves every bit of it, we adore him so much.

to neuter or not to neuter, that is the question…

~ Etc.

$60 romwe giveaway winner announced!

look, doesn’t his eyes look asian when it’s closed?  no wonder he’s my son! ;D
I hope everyone had a wonderful 3-day weekend!  we went to las vegas over the weekend and had such a great time, pictures to come soon.
but guess who didn’t have a great time, achilles. 🙁  he got neutered and stayed at a boarding facility for the three days that we were gone.  are we cruel or what!  i guess they like to keep neutered pets for 24/7 after the surgery to supervise so it’s not like we could’ve took him home right after his surgery anyway… right?  i still feel a little bad we did that to him.  but i feel more bad about neutering him.  i just trusted what our pet trainer and the pediatrician told us about the benefits of neutering and didn’t doubt or question it but when the time actually came, i started having second thoughts but by then it was too late.  was it the right choice?  the best choice for our dog?  he would’ve made some really cute puppies and he would’ve been such a wonderful father i think.  but now he’ll never know what it’s like to be a father, and was that even our choice to make?  and will it interfere with his love life?  did we rob him of his manhood?  oh, i just have so many questions.  i wish i researched more about it, the time came so much faster than i had anticipated and now it’s too late.  i feel like i was a bad mother to him, it was such an important decision and i didn’t even study into it.  argh.
so i wanted to ask you what your thoughts are on neutering/spaying pets.  have you neutered/spayed your pets?  why or why not?  would you if you had pets?