- Richard Bach, author
Here is a picture of my family - names and faces have been changed to protect the innocent...
The bond that links my family is not blood - heck, we are not even the same species. I have spent most of the holidays as the bottom (or as I prefer to say - the foundation) of the family dog pile. For some reason, my dogs like to be close. They don't just curl up beside you. They need to be on top of you and the other dog, if possible; hence, I am the dog bed. It would be annoying, if it were not so darn cute.
Since we are planning to expand our family through adoption, I have been doing a lot of reading on the subject. One of the areas that is a focus in much of the literature on adoption is attachment. I've learned the things to watch for, the ways to promote attachment and I've learned that even children who are born to you can suffer from attachment disorder. One of the strategies for promoting attachment is physical contact. I think this is what my dogs are doing when they are piling on me. This is part of their attachment to our family. It is amazing how us humans have to read to learn about these things, when animals just do them naturally.
My family and I will be spending New Year's Eve and New Year's Day curled up together enjoying each other's company. Homer and I bought a couple good books and the dogs are more than happy to just hang out with us.
Happy New Year to all of you who read my blog!
May the New Year bring you your
Bright Star Dreams
2 comments:
A happy new year to you guys! We spent Christmas playing Wii and didn't even cook supper, just snacked all day, Boxing day was Christmas because Chris' daughters and granddaughter's came up, Dec 27 was the Ethiopian Christmas as we had everyone here to have a feast.
New Year's Eve was fondue and Wii and today is just us, playing Wii and eating chocolate fondue.
Happy New Year!
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