WELCOME ROSIE ANN

Dragging out of bed on lazy Sunday mornings is harder sometimes than others and this morning was a hard one. #1 son was having to go to the emergency room with an abcessed tooth this morning so g-son and RL were dropped off here at 9:00 by d-in-love on her way to church.
Hubbie got them breakfast while I got chores done. It is 24 degrees this morning so more ice breaking.
I came back inside and had my breakfast and then we put corn on the cob on to cook to go with the beef stew that was cooking in the crockpot.
We got ready and we all headed to church.
Hubbie and I have nursery duty today so g-son went on into church and we dropped RL off in the 3 year old class which she apparently loves as she did not want to go to the nursery with us.
We had 4 toddlers and 2 babies under 1 year so Re came in and helped along with another one of the mothers. Babies are one on one projects when they are at these babies age so we had to have some help.
We came home to have our lunch with #1 son's family and Re and the kids. #1 son had gotten some antibiotics and pain meds for his badly abcessed tooth so he was feeling better.
After everyone left daughter called and said there was some folks she knew that needed to find a good home for one of their Australian Shepherd dogs. When they had a litter of puppies born about 1 year ago we expressed interest in a puppy but couldn't afford the price they were asking.
This was one of those puppies that they had kept from that litter. We met them at their house at 4:00 and the dog was a beautiful calm female red and white Aussie. She acted very smart and reminded me a lot of some of the aussie we have had in the past. She was a cross between my Annie and Sadie that both recently passed away. She was smart and had very intelligent eyes like Sadie but  had the calm personality like my Annie did.
The young couple that had her were really sad to see her go and I thought they were going to change their mind about letting her go. They had just gotten back from letting someone else look at her and they were surprised when we said we would take her today.
There were some tears and I told them not to give her up if she meant that much to them but they said they needed to let her go because they just had too many animals and no time to spend with her.
Rosie Ann is her name and she is now a member of our family and acts like she is right at home with IR and all the animals that are running around. Her birthday is January 9 so she just turned 1 year old.

We played with her awhile then put her in our empty dog lot for the evening. Daughter and IR went home and hubbie and I got chores done.
The entire sky was orange tonight casting an orange glow on everything.

When we came inside and had a snack for supper we went out to Walmart to get Rosie a new bed for the crate downstairs so she can come inside overnight on these cold nights. She has a very thick coat and has been outside all her life but she has had a couple other bigger dogs to cuddle with and here she would be all alone so on these cold nights she will come inside. She acted like she enjoyed her soft bed and didn't raise any fuss about being in the crate.

I had a headache tonight and rested with a heating pad on my temple for a couple hours before the pain went away.

Thankfully I am feeling better and headed to bed early tonight.

Thankful for the blessings of this day and praying that Rosie makes a smooth transition to our home.

God Bless and Good Night