Thanks everyone for the comments and private messages of sympathy.  Things have gotten better, but I do miss her every day.  Last Wednesday (2/22) I ended up taking her remains to a pet crematory to have her cremated. The fee included your typical vase-looking urn, but I plan to buy something that’s not so.. what’s the word I need?… morbid? Something like this is what I really have in mind for my Nikki. Something I can put on a shelf as more of a keepsake for her ashes.

That aside, things are going well.  My mother-in-law is watching Gavin Saturday night so that Dave and I can have a much needed evening out.  However, what is it with men?  We’ve been planning this night out for a couple weeks now and yesterday he informs me that he’s taken on a couple hockey games to referree that afternoon and that he’d be home by 8pm for us to go out.  Now am I out of line for being a little upset with him on this?  He says 8pm gives us plenty enough time to go out.  Is he kidding me? By the time we sit down anywhere for dinner it’s going to be close to 9pm. Forget a movie by that time unless it’s a midnight movie which would leave us no time afterward to stop for a nightcap.  I’m just a little perturbed that he would take away from our time together for a few extra bucks.  Mind you, the extra cash he makes as a referee is what allows us to take an extra vacation each year, have dinner out a few times a month with Gavin, or to splurge now and then on something fun for the house (last year we bought a new gas grill).  As much as I know that extra cash gives us those things.. I also like to be able to spend some time alone with my husband. We don’t get that time very often and it upsets me that it was, in my opinion, underminded.

On another note, I am really really behind on Gavin’s blog, I’m so horrible.  I haven’t even updated it for Christmas or more recently his 3rd birthday that was almost a month ago already.  I hope to bring it current this weekend and attempt to keep up with it.  Hope everyone has a great weekend.

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