Every Single Person has Baggage

EVERY SINGLE PERSON HAS BAGGAGE

I am gluten for punishment. Plain and simple. I have these grandiose ideas and somehow my husband says yes... rather reluctantly bless his heart! First it was the orphaned lambs that lived in our dining room while I bottled fed them, then there were the ducklings in our mud room in a cardboard box and now I am staring at a puppy in our living room chewing his bone.

We lost our sweet dog 1 1/2 years ago and a few months ago decided our family needed a friend for our kids.... and possibly me. So long story short we have a 5-month-old puppy we rescued this week. Now, this is our first puppy experience. So, there's that. Turns out they are a lot of work! Holy cuteness overload though!! He is just the sweetest thing which almost makes stepping in a puddle of pee in my kitchen worth it. Almost. 

Well, this poor boy has to wear a cone due to eye surgery.  This cone is a hindrance to him. He can't see great and runs into EVERYTHING (including the back of my legs).  It's cumbersome and makes life that more difficult to navigate.

This is kind of like how our "baggage" is. Every single person has baggage that comes from life experiences. It is blinders that we can't take off no matter how hard we scratch and try. But don't give up! Adapting doesn't make you the same as before, but maybe there is a different side of you that you haven't discovered yet that can be an exciting possibility! Over the course of this week our puppy doesn't even realize he has a cone on but has just learned to adapt to the crazy thing! He does the same things but just a little bit different. There is quite a bit we can learn from our sweet animals :) 

Stacie