dogs

What My Pets and Child Have Taught Me About Life

Have you ever heard the theory that each child you have teaches you something different about life? I think it’s so true, and I also think it’s true with each pet you own. I was driving (actually, I was sitting in classic Pittsburgh traffic 😂) and thinking about this and knew I had to blog about it!

So, let’s start with my the first dog I owned, Lola.

She was legendary! My dad and I went to the humane society and picked her out together for my 14th birthday and she saw me through every major life change after that–middle school, high school, college, marriage, buying a home, adopting a cat, adopting a puppy, and having a child. She was a black lab mixed with a pit bull and very gentle and sweet.

family-portrait-with-dog
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No Big Deal and Other Notes From Our Weekend

Jimmy casually mentioned he was going to make a fire pit on Saturday for our church because we were having a Father’s Day fellowship on Sunday evening. So, Saturday morning he set off for the shop he and his family own and built a fire pit in a few hours.

Steel fire pit
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