{"id":346,"date":"2012-09-03T01:42:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kandynolesstevens.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2012-09-03T01:42:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:42:35","slug":"27-days-to-go-who-let-the-dogs-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"27 days to go: Who let the dogs out?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo taken by Lulu Bell (evidence that she was NOT the one on the couch)
That’s Me, Hiccup, and Andy
(No, we don’t have laser eyes. This place has gone to the dogs.)<\/p><\/div>\n

Mom has left the computer open.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t know that the remote isn\u2019t the only thing I can operate around here.\u00a0 I will say it\u2019s a good thing she is\u00a0gone because this typing without thumbs is NOT easy. I see why she always says, \u201cHuck-y if only you had thumbs you could help out around here.\u201d\u00a0 Well, I am going to help her out and\u00a0pound\u00a0out today\u2019s blog.\u00a0\u00a0 (Do you know that she reads all of her work out loud; so, I have been an editor more than once.)<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think they realize how much I notice when they think no one is looking.\u00a0 Like I know what happens to all the missing cups and glasses, and I know why some people\u2019s laundry baskets never seem full in this family. I also know which person to sit next to at the table for a little snack. \u00a0But I am like my buddy, Duke,\u00a0I’m not saying anything.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty obvious why my family chose to have a dog walk for Reed\u2019s Run, but it is doubtful that anybody understands how much my boy meant to me.\u00a0 Very few know that I came into Reed\u2019s life because he had been diagnosed with an eye condition causing him to go blind.\u00a0 My puppy energy helped him remember he was still a little boy.\u00a0 Soon he forgot all about\u00a0those big medical words that I couldn\u2019t understand anyway.\u00a0 All I know is that I would sit at the end of the driveway waiting until\u00a0my boy got home from school every day, and then the two of us would be off on adventures.\u00a0 Those adventures were everything to me, and eventually it got to where Reed talked Mom & Dad into to taking me everywhere.\u00a0 (Just don\u2019t ask the rest of them about our first camping trip.\u00a0 Let\u2019s just say Reed & I were seriously in the dog house!)<\/p>\n

This weekend Mom invited over two of my good friends to hang out with my little puppy brother, Hiccup, and myself.\u00a0 One of those dogs is my buddy Andy.\u00a0 Andy is younger but I get it. He has a big heart too.\u00a0 Somehow I think he understands that we have a bigger role than just friend now.\u00a0 We carry a piece of our boys (Reed & AJ) in everything we do. Mom has met lots of nice people who have told her similar stories about their canine friends. Believe me, our Mom can talk.<\/p>\n

Simply put dogs matter! Maybe not to all people, but we really do to grieving people. I feel when their hearts are hurting because I miss Reed as much as they do.\u00a0 When I see them down, I try my best to snuggle up, but that is getting harder for me to do these days.\u00a0 I know this is the last Reed\u2019s Run, and even though I have had a few bouts of being down this year, I am going to make one last trip to the place where Reed and I earned those purple ribbons to remember my boy.<\/p>\n

I am not sure that Mom is going to like that Hiccup and Andy just \u00a0licked her keyboard.\u00a0 Pups! When will they ever learn to cover up the evidence? Trust me, I will act like I was never here.<\/p>\n

PAWS OUT – Huck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mom has left the computer open.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t know that the remote isn\u2019t the only thing I can operate around here.\u00a0 I will say it\u2019s a good thing she is\u00a0gone because this typing without thumbs is NOT easy. I see why she always says, \u201cHuck-y if only you had thumbs you could help out around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[160,161,274,526],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}