Our family really likes the dynamic of having three dogs. It feels like the house is right when there is a pack on the farm, and so when the time was right we thought of how to go about adding a new dog to our lives. Never once as a replacement, because you just can’t do that, as many of us well know. But as a new normal. One thing that was of utmost importance was that this was our 3-year-old son’s first time adding a dog to his life.
I wrote this first as a social media post in March of 2018, and then it was published shortly after in our local newspaper. A friend had read it and said we should submit it for a features section, so that was a fun place to have it shared. Now 5 years later the framed article hangs in the office of my dog-centric business. I wrote this post a little more than a month before my husband and I opened our dog boutique and grooming business together. I was excited, but as many small business owners experience at the start, I was anxious and a bit worried, hoping that it would be successful. We had invested a lot of ourselves into this venture, and it meant a lot to us. On May 3rd we will celebrate 5 years of being open. It's been a wonderful and blessed 5 years and we are so grateful for all that we have learned and experienced. As we look forward to the future with that gratitude and hopeful anticipation, I can't help but share this little nudge of encouragement that I received right before we opened. I don't think there was any coincidence to it...
Always interested in what's coming next. Puppyhood...Never a dull moment. Some puppies come to you scared. Some come soulful and searching. Some are jokesters and some are so hyper you…
