Saturday, February 20, 2010

No more dogs



Well, today is a hard day in our home. After a couple of years of having Butchie Man in our family, he went to live somewhere else today. His leaving was stemmed from an incident that happened a few weeks ago where both Angel and he got out the front door and allegedly attacked a horse. It wouldn't have been so bad, but he was caught attacking a cat in December, so the Spanish Fork city attorney told us he was pretty sure the judge would make us get rid of him or have him euthanized.
Ahh, sad! We knew this was a possibility as soon as the incident occurred, but we were hoping if we got rid of Angel, (who was the more aggressive of the two dogs) we could get Butch to settle back into his ways. Other than his hatred of cats and an occasional chewing up of something, he is the most AWESOME dog ever! i think it is sad for a family to own a cat and for a dog to attack it, don't get me wrong. But I do also think it is in a dog's nature to attack a cat. We have simply tried to breed that out of dogs over the years.
Anyway, now that my little rant is over, I am just going to say that we love Butch so much and will miss him a ton. We are just glad we got him a great home to live in if it can't be ours.
Now, we're not going to have another dog for quite a while. there won't be any way to replace Butchie, so we're not even gonna try right now. Bye bye Butchie Man!! :(

Friday, February 5, 2010

COURAGE ... February's Value



As I talked about last month, all year long my family is learning and strengthening 12 core values each month. Last month, we worked on HONESTY. This month, we are going to work on the value COURAGE.
In the book, Teaching Your Children Values by Linda and Richard Eyre, there is an opening to each chapter. The opening to this one is great!

"Daring to attempt difficult things that are good. Strength NOT to follow the crowd, to say NO and mean it and influence others by it. Being true to convictions and following good impulses even when they are unpopular or inconvenient. Boldness to be outgoing and friendly."

These statements are indeed what I consider to be Courage.

I'll let you know as our journey through the values progresses.