After an extended weekend away from home Clara, Jane and I drove the hour to my parent’s house in my brother’s truck to pick up both our dogs and my brother’s two dogs.

Why?

Because..

All our dogs were at my parents’ because the deer hunt is the one of the few times where I feel it’s better not to have the dogs along because they can’t run during the day and just find gut piles when you let them out at night so my grandpa was feeding all eight dogs (including my parents’) while we were up north. Tyler’s truck (F350)was at our house because Tyler’s camper needed to come to our house so we could get it ready for the trip to Kansas but the only vehicle that can pull it is his truck and so he switched trucks with my Dad so that my Dad could drop it off here, and when I went to get the dogs I had to be able to bring two kids, four dogs and an igloo dog house back home and I couldn’t fit all that in my Expedition. It was a good plan until I went to go home and the clutch broke on the truck and I ended up switching vehicles again with my Mom and taking her Explorer home and leaving the dog house (which honestly I would have forgotten anyway) and so tomorrow my Mom is driving Tyler’s now fixed truck back to my house with the dog house in the back to get her truck and my trailer and bring them back to her house so that I can put the dog house back in the kennel bring Tyler’s truck back to him this weekend and Mom can use the our trailer for a trip with her ski kids.

(Aren’t you glad you asked?)

Which is why when I found myself in the Explorer driving home with no dog kennel for the four dogs who had been cooped up for days and  Trip (my dog) was trying to climb in my lap while I was driving and Turkey (Tyler’s dog) was going over Jane to get to the front seat and Sunday (Tyler’s other dog) was alternately snuggling with Clara and also trying to get in the front seat while Storm (John’s dog) slept in the way back, and Clara was calling out locations of dogs, “Now there is one in the front, two in the back an one in the back. Now there is two in the front, one in the back and one in the back…” and she followed all her commentary up with:

“It’s a commotion!”

I laughed, because she got it right in one, whatever else this crazy plan may be, it is certainly a commotion!