So, we got a dog. Her name is Lucy (short for Lucille — we have this thing with old-people names for pets), and she’s a chihuahua-terrier mix with floppy ears that we rescued from the pound. She has to get fixed tomorrow, so we don’t bring her home until Monday…but man, are we psyched!

We were pretty set on getting a puppy — since we have cats and really want to set them up to win — but in the end, we just couldn’t stomach paying a breeder instead of rescuing an adult dog from imminent death. (We’re crazy liberals that way.) We had Lucy cat-tested at the pound to make sure she wouldn’t be aggressive with our current children, and since she was more afraid of the cat than the cat was of her, we took that as a good sign…Hazel and Pearl will have her doing chin-ups and running a 4-minute mile in no time!

So this is your fair warning: We are about to be Those People. The People Who Take Pictures of Their Dog and Post Them on the Blog. Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.