72 hours and counting

Saturday June 14, 2006
post by: Mom (Becky)

Hello cyber viewer! We are new to this whole blogging thing so cut us a little learning curve. If I was writing in my journal I would have no problem, but the fact that someone other than me will be Reading what I write has hurt my thought process. So I guess it is a good thing that I learn fast and am sure that shortly I will be almost as open here online as I am in my journal.

Well, we have 3 days to go before we leave for our service dog training in Xenia Ohio. We are lucky to have such a fantastic organization as 4 Paws for Ability right here in Ohio. For the past 7 months or so they have been training a multi-purpose service for our youngest son James. James, if you have read earlier post, was matched with Takoda, a black lab that will be 1 year old on the 21st.

We have spent the past 7 months getting James ready for this 12 day training program. We visited 4 Paws last June very briefly just so James could see the building and met Karen and here staff in June 07. Than we spent almost a whole training day with the March 08 training class so James would understand what training was like. Now our time is close, 3 days until we climb in the van and head to 4 Paws.

BEEEP..wrong again! Yeap, we had our list of things to get done before we leave. We had the clothes ready, games, DVDs, notebooks, etc. The one thing that was not on the list was the transmission on the van deciding it didn't want to make the trip with us...GRRRRR....

Now the search is on to find a van or if all else fails, a car big enough to take everything with us and bring Takoda back. This is going to be so much fun!