Joe's Venture into the World of Dentistry

Some of you may have heard me say early on in Josh's dental school career that he knew just enough to be annoying. Well, now that he is a bit further down the road, he certainly knows his far share of dental material, but I think Joe would say that his father is still very annoying about our family's oral hygiene. That's because he had to go get his teeth cleaned on Tuesday.

I dropped Joe off at the vet on my way to school. He knew where we were going, and as we got closer the squeals from the back seat just got louder. He went into the vet's front office without too much trouble, but when it was time to get checked in for surgery, he had to be dragged on his stomach to the back room. What was most heart-wrenching was when he looked into my eyes with a sense of utter betrayal.

The cleaning went just fine, and Josh and I were very happy to get the call that he was waking up from anesthesia. However, when I picked him up he was certainly still a little loopy. I knew he wasn't back to 100% when he didn't even notice the two cats in the vet's waiting room. You'll also see from the picture below that Joe kept passing out into a deep slumber wherever he went.



Luckily, today he is back to his normal self...that is a professional table beggar.

Catching the Blogging Bug

"Walkin' in Memphis" may seem a bit outdated since we've been here three years, but we feel like we have lots more of this city to explore before we may possibly move on to new places. For anyone who is out of the loop, we are in Memphis so that Josh can enjoy the thrilling experience of surviving dental school. As he takes on that challenge, I am teaching at Arlington Middle School. Our little family is rounded out by our precious Boston Terrier mix named Joe.

We hope some of our friends and family will enjoy reading about our daily routine; even more so, we hope this little piece of the Internet will serve as a documentary of our lives that we can look back on for years to come.

Tomorrow will be Josh's fourth week back in clinics from the summer and my first day setting up my classroom for a new school year. It's a somewhat stressful time of year for us, but that's why we have each other! Stay tuned for posts to come...