Is she pregnant or not?

This waiting game is rough.

I am reminded that anticipatory feelings are really not helpful — or reasonable. Why do humans insist on dragging a potential future event’s potential emotional impact into the present?

A dog reminds us how to just stick to the present moment.

But that is a tough lesson to learn - and relearn.

I imagine hearing Claire is not pregnant and I feel the feels — sadness, disappointment, discouragement — about something that has not happened! Totally unnecessary feelings that crowd out what deserves to be felt and experienced TODAY.

Excellent reminder that THOUGHTS drive feelings. And since thoughts originate in our heads, we get to control what Mental Channel plays in our minds.

Please pass that remote control.

And put on those super Lucky Socks. That, after all, is really all we can do about this today.

Happy Monday!

If Claire is pregnant, the embryos are now beginning to attach to the endometrium. Before this point in a dog’s pregnancy, embryos are free floating.

This delayed connection between the mother’s body and the puppies is why we cannot determine pregnancy in a dog until about the fourth week. The human equivalent would be that a pregnancy is about in the fourth month before we would even know we were pregnant!

Isn’t that wild?

And so we continue to wait — and dare to hope.

A couple of fun photos. This is Sparkler Zimmer with Jack. Kathy reports that this is a morning tradition with these two.

I just love the obvious regard between those two in the photo. Thank you, Kathy, for sending along the love.

I am not in Boise but Galen is and he took this photo of the Junior Heintzberger twins, Kade and Kole, with their canine sister — Heidi Heidi from the H Moon Litter — who has been a presence in their lives since the day they were born.