I woke up 2 hours before the alarm went off and sat tapping my toes until Sophie came home and we could leave. I had lots of excited texts from my lovely friends wishing us a safe journey and lots of luck.
My brain was just buzzing with excitement at the prospect of meeting Kate and Lara at last!
We hit traffic as soon as we left the house ~ grrrrrrrrrr! ~ and then there were roadworks on the M5, but we eventually arrived just 10 minutes past the arranged time. Phew!
Kate greeted us and then we had to pass the Squidge the cat test! Thankfully, she purred happily as Sophie stroked her head and then she joined us in the kitchen while we had a long chat over a cup of tea.
I'd secretly taken a list of 27 (!!) questions with me, but rest assured that I had hoped to cover the answers to most of them in casual conversation rather than by interrogation ;o)
Kate and I chatted easily about lots of different topics ~ some related specifically to potential Cheese and some not ~ whilst Squidge tried her best to sneak on to the kitchen table. It was lovely to feel so welcome and relaxed and the time just flew by, but then ~ at long, long, long last ~ it was introduction time! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!
Kate brought Lara in and she is absolutely everything that I'd hoped for and dreamed of ~ beautiful and friendly and wiggly and beautiful. I could very easily have just scooped her up into my arms and smuggled her out to the car ;o) We spent some time fussing the gorgeous girl and then Kate fetched Kalli (Lara's 14 month old daughter) in. Kalli is adorable! She's a very different body shape to her mum as her dad is a working boy, but it was easy to see her beautiful mum in her too. She is bags of fun!
And then I could stand it no more and had to ask Kate directly if we would possibly be allowed on to her waiting list for a puppy from Lara....................and she said "YES"!!! Wooooooooohoooooooooo!!! I could have cried with relief. I was SO worried that she wouldn't like us or would think that we couldn't be trusted with one of her girl's precious puppies, but now I can sleep at night again and look forward to our gorgeous baby boy joining us in the future :o)
And it is some time in the future, as Kate had warned us very early into our communications. She is hoping that Faith will be having a litter next Spring and then it'll be Lara's turn in 2014. Very kindly, she suggested contacting the Warringah kennels as they had been expecting a litter at the beginning of October and they'd be a good place to start if we wanted a puppy earlier. However, I feel so sure that Kate and Lara will be the best person and dog to give our pup the best of best starts that I have no qualms at all in waiting for them to have a litter.
I also feel that it'll do us all good to give our hearts some time to heal over all we've been through with our big dogs, before we bring another big dog home. It's very very strange to not have a big dog in the house after 8 years of constantly having at least one of them around, but we are all very much looking forward to the day when we can bring our Cheese boy home.
Kate kindly let us go out into the garden to meet Connie and Faith and the wonderful Summer girl and then we had a bit of a photo shoot with Lara and Kalli, so here are the results of that........
Lara
Kalli
Lara and Kalli
Thank you so much for having us, Kate. It was lovely to meet you and your gorgeous girls and we had a lovely afternoon x
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