Well “In the Year 2000….” I met my best friend in the whole entire world. But first let’s just say the world didn’t come crashing down at 12:00am 01.01.00, thank goodness. Because if that happened I my sweet baby boy Toby would never have been born. So in April 2000 my sweet Tobias Aloysius Houston was born. One day I was with my mom and dad and my mother needed to run to in to Wal-Mart so my dad and dropped her off and I was going to run in to Radio Shack really quick to get something and on my way in there I saw a guy sitting on the tailgate of his SUV with a couple of puppies in the back and a sign that said “FREE PUPPIES”… I of course stopped and looked and there was one dog left… the runt. I immediately ran to my dad’s car because I had to get to him before my mom came out to the car and talked some sense in to us. I gave him the “pretty eyes” (I only use the pretty eyes on occasions when I really really have to have something, because so far they have never failed me not since I was a little girl and I don’t want to waste that power on something not super important.) So back to the pretty eyes… I batted my eyes like crazy and said pretty please the whole way over to SUV and as soon as he saw that little puppy he said yes! So by the time my mom had made it over we had asked the gentleman what kind of puppy it was, he said the mother was a Golden Retriever and the father “came from a good home.” So sweet Tobias came in to the Houston family that blessed spring day! My family likes to give me a hard time because I HAD to have him and later this year I moved in to a house without a backyard so I left him with my parents… Toby was wild puppy. He ran laps constantly in the backyard, he tore up their backyard twice, there were several times they wanted to give him away and probably even worse… Finally by the time the puppy had worn off and he was the perfect TV Golden Retriever, wanting to lay on your feet to keep them warm, and being the perfect dog, I had bought a house with a yard and took him back. They joke that I was an unfit parent and they took custody of my child until I was ready… He still loves going to his Nana and Poppie’s house though. Even though he’s sick, he remembers that his spot is curled up right behind my dad’s legs on the couch and he knows that when he is at the house his Nana will pour extra milk in her cereal just so he can have some when she’s done.
I can’t imagine my life without this sweet boy. He’ll be 10 years old in April and there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t look at him and thank God so much that he is my handsome man!
My Handsome Man!
President: William J. Clinton
Vice President: Albert Gore, Jr
Population: 281,421,906
Federal spending: $1,788.83 billion
Federal debt: $5,674.2 billion
Unemployment: 4.0%
No. 1 Song week of February 12, 2000: I Knew I Loved You by Savage Garden
Nobel Prize for Literature: Gao Xingjian (China)
Random Facts:
- U.S. presidential election closest in decades; Bush’s slim lead in Florida leads to automatic recount in that state. Supreme Court seals Bush victory by 5-4.
- Charles Schulz, the cartoonist who created the “Peanuts” comic strip, dies in his sleep after a battle with colon cancer.
