expectations...a little too high

my mom is here!

with michael and i wanting desperately to spend some time away from driving in cars, mom decided to come see us. she came down saturday morning and brought jules home.

jules has been in san angelo since dec 21st, when we headed there before christmas. she stayed there while we were in vegas. we spent that next weekend at a wedding in dallas and then the following weekend holed up in our apartment.

mom was missing us almost as much as we were missing her so she decided to come spend the weekend. she brought jules.

we were so excited to see jules and thought she would be equally as excited to see us. we even decided beforehand that we would go downstairs so that when the car pulled up, she could run around and jump and be excited to see us.

uh...she didn't do any of those things.

she didn't even shake her butt and her name is "butt-shaker". it's just what she does.

instead, she saw us and let us pet her and then leisurely walked around the apartment grounds smelling and sniffing. we even used our excited voices and whistled and patted our legs. nothing. she wouldn't even walk over to us.

it was the saddest thing of our whole lives.

in fact, i saw into the future about 16 years. when maybe our own human daughter would be a teenager (no i'm not pregnant). she will probably treat us with the same disdain and our hearts will be broken. gosh, that's so sad.

jules, has slowly warmed up to us again and we guess that she's forgiven us for leaving her for so long. we left today and when we got home, she had regained her previously mentioned nick name. she loves us again!

whew!

thank you, Jesus, for turning the hearts of the children back to the parents. :)