Joyful

We recently discovered a couple of lab-rescue organizations around town & even mustered up the courage to put in an application for a little chocolate gal who caught our eye (sorry, Sara). She's preggers right now though, so she won't be ready until around February (if she's not too messed up from her crazy chained up life in Grand Island Nebraska). Anyway, their applications are quite detailed and rigorous...you'd think we were applying to possess the soul of the Queen of Bulgaria rather than adopting a labrador retriever but whatever floats their boat...

Today we had a phone interview (stage one of the approval process) and Bob was articulate and funny and charming on the phone with the lady who said that in her notes she's going to put down that we are a "joyful family."

Joyful. That's worth the whole process even if we don't get a new dog out of it...