"I'm in prison!!"

Blogging Friends.... Well, I am knee-deep in editing Little Miss Secretive Writing Project these days. Whoo!! Fellow author Caryl Moll {Maxmom} was absolutely correct when she told me that the most challenging part about writing is editing!! I am now finding this to be true on an even deeper psychological level than ever before....

This was Rose shortly after we had adopted her. She was having serial "accidents" every time we left home and "abandoned" the girl. Both feces and urine. On our great room carpet. Thus, we were forced to purchase this kennel at a local PetsMart. I followed its paper's rules religiously, no rebel within me emerging. Then, came our first test. Sunday morning church service. We would only be gone a few brief hours. No problem. She will be fine. Right? This is what we returned home to....

Rose had been lying in cotton fluff--what was once her brown dog pillow--resembling that of some canine sitting on Heaven's cloud!! Being part Beagle, and quite the little explorer, Rose hated this, uh, prison!! We never kenneled her again....