Louise Maine

So I will start with the basics: My family. I love my family. My husband Mike is very hard working and the epitome of what it means to have goals and work for them. He is very successful and a good example about how to work hard now and steer yourself for the future plans. My daughter Becca has entered those wonderful teenage years (read: 15). That is not just meant to be sarcastic but wonderful in that she is trying to find herself though it has managed to give her parents more gray hairs than we are supposed to have at the age of 42. She is talented musically, athletically, and pretty smart as well. I hope she comes back to some of these things as there are many kids who would love to have some of that talent. My son Ryan is now officially a teenager and not a technophobe like his mother. He is a gamer though he doesn’t take it seriously like others. He is very talented musically and loves animals and nature, especially if it is a reptile or amphibian. He is very laid back normally so maybe we will be spared more gray hairs.

The other members of our family are the four legged kind. We have 2 ferrets. A boy named Sebastian (Becca’s) and a girl named Sabrina (Ryan’s) provide plenty of entertainment. They are full of personality and are fun to watch when we let them run around the scrapbooking studio and they steal items frequently. We also have 4 dogs. We rescued all of them from a pound. I love that. Sure, they may still have found there way to a good home, but people who know us know that our dogs are just plain spoiled. Hardy is a Pomeranian and is Ryan’s dog. He rules all the others. Anyone who has a Pomeranian would agree. Murphy is a poodle/terrier mix and is the family dog. He is very laid back, somewhat lacking upstairs and gets along with everyone and every dog. He is the dog that everyone wants to take home with them. Duke is a Great Dane and a very loveable dog and very well behaved for his size but has to be watched that he does not get too carried away as he is still a puppy (at 105 pounds)! The last is Jake, who is a long haired Chihuahua. He is the sweetest and actually not as high strung as the short haired varieties. Jake and Duke are quite a sight together as their size is definitely an extreme and they are also very protective of me as they are mine. They can be quite a handful at times especially those days when they won’t walk the way they should or at mealtime. But they are loving and definitely members of the family.