Our Girl Becomes A Reality

Sally Porkchop 6wks (at this time the breeder had named her Abby)

The truth is my husband was out of town and I texted him saying something like, "I've found a female bulldog puppy I'm on my way to go check her out." I think I got several texts and a voicemail or two back saying, "WE ARE NOT GETTING A DOG!" 

Needless to say I ignored those messages and forged ahead to go meet and even put a down payment on my girl. Within 24 hours after meeting our girl I was off on a plane to go meet my husband on a road trip which I knew my only goal was to convince him we were ready for this addition to our life.

Being a couple unable to fulfill our desires years ago to become parents of a natural human baby we had made a choice to accept our fate and go with it. This acceptance allowed us to choose a life together enjoying freedom and the opportunities to travel and enjoy the things in life available to us.

This childless life made it hard for my husband to accept that after 9 years of "freedom" a dog wouldn't throw a wrench into that. We had the choice on a whim to say tomorrow let's go on a 2 day road trip, or let's extend our initial 7 day vacation to a 10 day vacation on the flip of a dime, no worries.

Sally Porkchop (at the time known as Abby) 6 wks old 

He was concerned a dog would keep us forever homebound. Which to be honest neither of us wanted I was just convinced that wouldn't be the case. 

So I spent two weeks on the road saying, "just come meet her, you'll love her." And yep, within two days of our return from our road trip we were together headed over the bridge again and without a doubt he was in love too! We committed to bringing home our girl once she was ready and the deal was done!