So I can say that two more things are crossed off my list. One of the items I actually did, one is because it is no longer necessary.
My first thing I will tell you about is the dress. My husband's family gets VERY dressed up for weddings. I am talking gowns. My family wears cocktail style dresses. Every time I have gone to a wedding, I feel like a sore thumb. The hubs always tells me I look fine, but I feel out of place. It has been a thing with me that I will find a dress for one of these weddings. Recently, his cousin got engaged. I found out the wedding was going to be in October. I started the search for the dress immediately. I have an issue with buying clothes online. I would much rather try them on in the store than hope they work and have to deal with the hassle of going to the post office to return them in they don't. I went to a couple of store websites, but the dresses I liked were in the $300 range. I couldn't justify spending that. I knew that I would only wear this dress once. There was no need to spend that kind of money.
One day we were out shopping without the little one, so I decided I would try going to Ross. I ended up finding a dress I really liked there. It was only $40. I snatched that dress up right away. I wasn't 100% in love with it, but it was closer to the target than anything else I had seen. I decided I would still look around and know that I had that as a back up in case nothing else came through. At the very least, I would be able to wear it later for another wedding in any event.
My cousin and I went shopping at an outlet mall last week. It was an odd outlet mall in the respect that only half the stores treated it like an outlet. The other half just treated it like a store front. Dress Barn was the kind that it was just a store front. There was the dress I had coveted for months at a fraction of the cost. I am not sure if it is the brand or the material, but the dress I loved online was in front of me for only $60. The only problem was they did not have my size. Thankfully there is a dress barn right by my house. I went there this week and picked it up. It is the kind of dress that I should be able to wear to both sides of the family. It will fit in with the hubs side because it is long. It isn't too fancy, though, so I should be able to wear it to my side of the family as well. And, since we have five weddings in the next year and a half, it should get a workout!
My other task that I crossed of my list is getting Smitty groomed. I ended up not having to do that because we rehomed Smitty this week. The hubs allergies were getting out of control. He was taking his inhaler more often, and he needed to be out of the house more often to get away from the fur. I was vacuuming the house four to five days a week, and my vacuum was getting clogged every time. It was just becoming too much. Plus, I live in an 800 square foot house. He was way to big to have a baby as well. He was just a big puppy all the time, and sometimes he forgot how big he was and how little John was. I started to put the feelers out there, and eventually a new family came through.
They are friends of my sister. I could not ask for a better family for him. They have two older children who will play with him and love on him so much more than I could. He also has a new sister who is a big puppy as well. When we left, the two of them were running around playing tag. The new family kept giving me hugs as I was sobbing. It was hard, but I know this is the best thing for him. My house feels so much bigger now that he is gone. I don't know if I like it or not. I did friend the family on Facebook. They have posted pictures and texted me a couple of times. I am so glad it worked out the way it did. It really made a horrible situation that much easier.
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