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Puppies!...Babies!....and then they grow up and leave home....

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The puppies are getting so big! their eyes are open and mom can't even come in the same room with them unless she wants to feed them. They see her and try to tackle her for food! I realize in these pictures they are still quite small but these are their almost two week pics! This little guy looks soo sweet! And then you realize he peed on your table! Mom is serving lunch and Dad is watching.... Time flies! They grow so fast! Just like a blanket full of puppies! This weekend is going to be a very busy one for the kids. They have to go to work with me and the puppies have to deal with being cooped up in the house with their parents. I keep saying I'm going to cut back on my hours at work, I'm going to do something else, I'm going to quit when I'm debt free.... but I get up each morning and still go to work. When will I learn? The search for the right place to live goes on. We have been packing up the rest of

Moving day followed by cleaning day followed by holy cow! I thought you did it?

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This past weekend and most of this week is moving/cleaning/sorting day for us.  After canceling our offer on a very nice property it has been busy, busy only to discover the agent didn't decline the property and then sent a message requesting earnest money be paid by 1630 yesterday.  That left me with four plus hours of scrambling to find the documents that supported us not taking the property. Those of course were packed in a box... but which box? No! I did not label the boxes...there aren't that many. But there are many locations for those boxes! Some at each daughter's home and some at the scene of the disaster in sheds that weren't burned, some at my work. It seemed the shortest route to get what I needed was to call the DWR at the DNR (Department of Water Resources and the Department of Natural Resources). As excited as I was to soon live in west Kansas I wouldn't be able to irrigate the land with what water access it would come with the property. All said an