You may recall that my 9 year old son (10 when he is at school) son, Vidroid has a quirky Aquarian friend. This boy has been prone to dumping Vidroid in the past and still does on occasion although the occasions have become far less frequent. Per their habit, the boys spend the day either here or at Aquarian’s house and I am talking a 10-hour day, every day but yesterday I got a surprise.

Aquarian got a new puppy and my son went over to meet the him. An hour later, Vid called to ask permission to borrow the dog (Maxxie).

“Borrow?” I asked.

“Yeah. He’s going to come spend the day and night with me so I can get to know him really well.”

I was dumbfounded. What person (or family) gets a new puppy and send it on a overnight to someone else’s house on day 2? “Does his mother know about this?”

“Yep! It’s his dog so he can do what he wants with him and he wants me to get to know him so can I, Mom? He’ll send me with food and his bed and everything we’ll need..”

What would you say? Maxxie spent the night last night and did not cry a bit as the soldier assured me he would. Today the boys are here, so is Maxxie and our dog, Lucky is tolerating this okay.

Good thing because the soldier’s blind, deaf and tooth missing dog, Dora, who he rescued from a war zone… smuggling her on a plane out of country is moving in on Saturday. Yep. Dora the flying dog is coming in this weekend and when she gets here, well then our family will be in tact.