On the move...

Well much has transpired since my last blog entry! I think we set the record for goodbye parties! There was the last staff meeting & lunch last Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights were parties at Ellen's with old high school friends, Sunday was the last day at church and my "Bibble Babble" women's Bible study party in the evening. Monday evening we went to the Palisade Brewery with friends + Sean and Megan, and Tuesday evening we were with Sean & Megan again + Mark at Inari's in Palisade.
About 10-12 people showed up Tuesday morning to help us pack the truck. We packed all that could be packed in less than an hour! Thanks be to God! Then we finished up packing stuff in the house, Wednesday morning we go the rest of the truck loaded (right to the edge...it was perfect), and closed on the house at 1pm. We were on the road by 3:30!
The drive went great and Sarah and Rilo met us at our hotel! Then things got sticky...
Jill, our lab, has had aggression trouble before with our other lab Charlie. She'll just lay into her for no reason. Well, out of the car at our hotel was the first attack, then two more in the hotel room. We have tried to deal with this through training and we thought she was doing pretty well. We toiled and toiled. Poor Charlie has cowered in the corner for months and it was getting worse and worse. Jill was the worst on the leash and we knew she was going to have to be on the leash a lot in Pittsburgh because we don't have a fenced yard. We made the excruciating decision to take Jill to the Dumb Friend's League (shelter/adoption). We cried and cried, but we were having to shuttle dogs between the bathroom, the main hotel room, and outside so they wouldn't get in a tangle. We feel we failed Jill miserably.
So we're in the hotel room now, recovering, and trying to actually spend some time with the kids and Rilo instead of stopping dog fights. Ugh, I feel awful.
This is not what I envisioned for our last day with them..
So we'll be leaving tomorrow for the first leg (to Lincoln, NE) with one less dog, and very heavy hearts as we leave our family, friends, and sweet Jilly.
Tomorrow is a new day...I pray God gives us peace in our decision..in some ways I feel we just took the easy way out - a cop out.. The stress just overcame us.
Dear Lord, give us strength...
~Sally