Broghan's mom, being left alone as well (only with the house and two dogs...no kids), and then two other "widowed" wives invited me over to Eastern Wisconsin for most of the weekend. Broghan and his brother Cullan and his friend John headed out of town late Wednesday night and I decided not to wait until Friday to go. So Thursday was spent cleaning like a crazy woman, then picked up the boys I nanny from school, then hit the road. We got in late so it was straight to bed for us.
Early (8AM) Friday, we decided to take all three dogs for a nice walk over the neighbor's house so we could stop in and say hi and see when they were heading out for the weekend. Well...as it turns out, Marvin (our dog) and Doc (their lab) decided to take a VERY LONG walk all by themselves. Within minutes of us walking into the neighbors, those two were gone...and I mean GONE. We immediately began searching, taking turns driving around to other neighbors houses..yelling..screaming...whistling. Ugh, they just were not responding. We waited for over 10 hours, called the radio stations, the humane society and the animal shelter...no luck.
Finally, we kind of gave it up to God and said, if they come back, they come back because obviously our efforts weren't doing much. We traveled to Appleton to catch the end of dinner with our other "widows" Jill and Kim and to watch Sex and the City 1. As we drove back we just kept saying, "please be home" "PLEASE BE HOME!" and guess what...when we drove up their long driveway...THEY WERE HOME!! OMG! I'd never been so relieved (ok I probably have but this was darn close). Our dogs came back and they certainly seemed glad to be back with us. They didn't even cry to be let out the next morning!
So while the first day of the vacation didn't start so hot, things were looking up! :)
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