Will a pet really help?

Okay - everyone keeps telling me to get S a pet. Really... do you think so? I know that pets can be therapeutic... but... I have three kids to clean up after, I don't know if I can handle a pet as well! Maybe a cat, they're pretty self-sufficient. We'll have to see. The kids went to visit their grandparents house a few months ago... they had 10 fish. The kids named them after all of the characters from Super Mario Brothers... between you and me - they all died! I don't know what we'll tell them when we go to visit next time. They'll be very upset to hear that Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Yoshi, Toad, Princess Peach, Wario, Waluigi, Daisy and Boo are gone! That's my biggest fear. What if I get Spencer a pet and it dies? OMG! I'm not sure he could handle that!

So, thanks to a very good friend of mine, I'm feeling better today! I can't imagine going through life without my friends to help "bring me back to reality." You know who you are... checkin' my blog every day! I feel like Heather Armstrong. BTW - go to www.dooce.com, Heather is so funny... not sure when I'll hit the $40K per month mark but if you start inviting all of your friends to visit my blog, it may be sooner than I think!! Ha! Just invite the ones who don't know me... I live in a small town. My neighbors don't all need to know my business - just every other person on the Internet.

So, my DH and I spent the morning swatting black-flies in an attempt to assemble a trampoline for our three boys. We need a way to tire them out so they'll sleep better at night. I'm hoping this does the trick. It wasn't too big of a job... I can see it being a little annoying having to tear it down in the winter and put it back up again in the spring. I think we need to move somewhere that we could just leave it up all year long. Somewhere sunny and hot! Near a beach. That'd be great.

Well, I just had clients cancel on me so I think I'll take the rest of the day off... kinda seems like I might not be working anyway... considering what I'm doing at this very moment! Just don't tell the Boss! She's not been in the best of moods lately! :)