Tea Parties. Road Trips. Elevator Dogs. | Smithellaneous

Yesterday, I was on the road eight hours (between travel time and my actual meeting) and then I traveled another four hours today following our morning church service. ?May I just say that my hinder most parts are slightly fatigued. ?

Today?s jaunt took Sarah and me to the halfway point where we met Sarah?s friend, Hope, and her mom.?? Hope has journeyed here to Manteo to attend Sarah?s?Festively Gala-ish Celebratory Almost Seventeen-Year Old Tea Party?scheduled for 1 pm tomorrow.

(We realize that official English teas are later in the afternoon but we are Americanizing our version of it since Sarah has to be at work at 5 pm.)

Here are the girls when they first saw each other today.

The pending party required a stop on the way home to look for some tea party hats. We found a wonderful selection at Roses that were only $6 which caused all of our bargain-hunting hearts to holler hooray.

We?re now back home and the girls are upstairs waiting for Taylor ?(Sarah?s Manteo friend), to arrive for an overnight? pre-tea party slumber party.? (Sadly, Victoria can?t make it this year since she?s having a crazy busy month and it?s a 14-hour round trip for her to get here; however, she and Sarah are hoping to get together in September.)

And Snowy?

Well.? I?m not quite sure what to say.? At this point, he?s still not able to get through a day without his meds without pretty significant discomfort so the whole idea of weaning him off of the medications entirely doesn?t seem to be working.

This morning I was going upstairs and glanced down to see him trying to follow me. ?He put his little front paws on the first step and then paused for a moment before finally turning around and sitting forlornly on the floor in a little heap of canine dejectedness, realizing he could no longer make the trip. ?

That made me sad as I thought back to the hundreds of times I have watched him flying up and down those stairs, even outrunning Nathan, our most limber and speedy Smith Family member. ?I think those days are pretty well behind us.

So the Mama Elevator descended the stairs and carried Sir Canine up to the second floor where he hung out with us Second Floor Inhabitants for a while before pushing the down button on the elevator and requesting ?to be returned to the ground floor so that he could repair to his kennel for yet another long snooze.

This evening, he?s sitting beside me in the writing chair, but it?s not a restful sitting. ?Although he?s not shaking (his usual sign of pain) he?s panting a whole lot and shifting his weight around. ?I need to wrap this up and take him downstairs for another dose of meds.

I?ll probably wait to call the vet on Tuesday for further instruction unless something radically changes overnight. ?I want Sarah?s Tea Party to be as happy as possible and we?ve got enough meds in the house to keep him comfortable and relatively happy. ?(The chunks of watermelon go a long toward fulfilling his happiness quotient.)

So that?s the weekend scoop in the Smith House. ?Now I?m off to arrange cucumber sandwiches, petit fours and party hats.

Let the celebration begin!

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