I was adamant we were not going to get another dog. Until one day…

It was Mother’s Day. We went to church and I planned on doing a very motherly chore of organizing my “baby” girl’s clothes that afternoon. On the way home from church my husband mentioned “Hey! Let’s go to the animal shelter!”, with my son agreeing in excitement.

This wasn’t completely out of the blue. We sometimes alternated saying “let’s go to the shelter!”, but one of us (usually me), would decide against it. This time, however, this time felt special. Not to mention organizing my daughter’s clothes felt completely unappealing.

I made my family promise me they weren’t going to be upset when I said no to getting a new dog. Once agreements were in place we were on our way.

At the animal shelter we noticed there was a meet and greet room just before the hall that leads to the animals. Sitting inside, all alone, happened to be a cute, adorable, black and white 3 month old puppy.

We were for sure not going to get a puppy. I was already trying to potty train my little girl and I didn’t want to have to potty train two at the same time. Regardless, since we were there just to look, I told my kids it was ok to go in and play with her a little.

What I wasn’t expecting, is my son who gets slightly nervous when animals jump, to be completely okay with her. This puppy proceeded to say “hi” to all of us and then came over and sat in my lap and put her face next to mine. Oh dear…my heart melted.

We eventually left to see the other dogs and then decided it was time to go home. Just before leaving the shelter, I couldn’t stop myself from going in to love on this little puppy just one more time. On the way out I looked at my husband and told him that it was actually really hard to say no to her.

No sooner than we got home and closed the door, everything in me felt like we had to go back and get her. My family was already hooked on her and they were no help in trying to talk me out of it. For one last effort, I called my sister, who I knew for sure would talk me out of it. After she listened to me tell her all about this puppy, what I wasn’t expecting was her to actually do the opposite. Not even an hour later and we were driving ourselves back to the shelter.

We came home with our Sadie.