Dog Walking

This week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the kids and I walked a friend's dog. The friend is from bootcamp and she has a 2 year old daughter who was recently diagnosed with stage IV cancer. The little girl Leila has gone through 3 rounds of chemo (which went well), is scheduled for surgery for tumor removals and has regular blood transfusions. You wouldn't know it meeting her. She is a bundle of joy (literally) and friendly beyond belief.

It's not the most convenient thing for me to take the kids to do this at 8am, but I thought being a little inconvenienced was just fine in this case. The first day we took bikes which wasn't great for the hilly neighborhood. The second time, scooters. Still...not so great. But just walking is fine as the kids stop as much as Cody does.

Cody is super nice. A big yellow lab mix, like Pete and Maddie. He pees on everything and sniffs even more. But he's super mellow so even Miranda can walk him. She goes back and forth between loving him and being super scared of him. Today we took him to a local park and we threw sticks for him to fetch. While Miranda was getting ready to throw one, he took it from her and she became hysterical.

They all say they enjoy it and look forward to walking him. We'll do it again next week and until school starts when the timing will become challenging at best.

Send good thoughts for little Leila and her mom Rachel and dad Josh. I can't even imagine what they are going through.