New Year's Day 2019 Card From Reilly and Camille

Good Job, Reilly & Camille! And Cam, You Don't Have To Worry About Ri Taking "Santa Ducky" From You

Camille has been a comfort to especially "Mimi" during the difficult time in which she, "Auntie Nicole", and "Mom-Mom" are mourning the passing of "Great Mom-Mom", as has been Reilly to everyone relatively equally (though "Auntie Michelle" is taking the passing the hardest. As for  "Mom-Mom", she got the special treatment of having Reilly wanting to comfort her so much on the night of the passing, that she refused to leave "Mom-Mom"'s side and was very close to biting "Auntie Michelle" when "Auntie Michelle" tried to take her "potty" before "night nights" time.).

This isn't to mention that they behaved very well and went into their crates when "Mom-Mom" et. al. left to go to "Great Mom-Mom"'s funeral and celebration of life, and they greeted the mourners eagerly when they got home. Nonetheless, they did devote some attention to their own matters: namely, Reilly focused on stealing all of the affection from Camille, and Camille focused on guarding "Santa Ducky" (a Christmas gift and a new favorite toy of hers) to the point of giving Reilly looks of suspicion even when Reilly was all the way on the couch and she was on the chair—and after she growled at Reilly last night just for being within the vicinity of her and "Santa Ducky" (Cam, don't worry about Ri taking "Santa Ducky" from you!).

Update: Here are a few photos of Cam with "Santa Ducky" and one photo of poor Ri getting suspicious eyes from her (Cam already had a suspicious mind!).

#WoofWednesday & Early #ThrowbackThursday: "Great Mom-Mom" (ז״ל) Was One Of the First People To Meet Reilly

"Momma" forgot about that until she went through pictures on her Facebook timeline to find pictures of "Great Mom-Mom" (ז״ל), whom (as "Momma" and Reilly believe, and as "Great Mom-Mom" believed) "went to see Jesus" on Christmas Eve—as "Momma"/"Auntie Nicole" explained to Reilly (with "Great Mom-Mom" and "Mom-Mom" on July 4th of 2014) and Camille (whom never got to meet "Great Mom-Mom" ☹)







"Great Mom-Mom" actually met Reilly two days after Reilly came home:




Reilly couldn't be left alone in her crate yet, and that day was "Great Mom-Mom"'s 87th birthday; so, Reilly came along for a visit.









Reilly was "rei"-markably behaved, meanwhile!

Reilly & Camille the Empathetic Great-Grandpuppies & Mourners Among Those Of Tzion v'Yerushalayim

Exactly two years ago from yesterday, Reilly showed empathy during another difficult situation and thus proved that she's the same empath as ever. In this case, though, the situation is ongoing and even more severe, which Reilly seems to sense because she's been also quite mournful for the past hour. As for the situation itself, it's that Reilly's"Great Mom-Mom"—as "Momma" has explained to her—"is going to see Jesus very soon" (and "Momma" makes no secret of the fact that she's a Jewish Christian. Anyway..).

Reilly seems to understand this as much as puppies can understand this kind of situation. Meanwhile, she along with Camille has been a comfort to her "Auntie Michelle"/Camille's "Mimi", and both of them comforted "Auntie Michelle"/"Mimi" by licking her tears last night and mourning with her—as well as with "Momma"/"Auntie Nicole" and "Mom-Mom".

By the way, "Great Mom-Mom" told "Mom-Mom" to say "Hi" to her "great-grandpuppies" when "Mom-Mom" stated that she would send her pictures of her "great-grandchildren" and explained that she was referring to her "great-grandpuppies". For "Great Mom-Mom", this is significant because she had a different attitude toward puppies before, as she was as a farm kid and was mostly around working pups as opposed to companion pups.

Re A Matter About Which I've Posted On Facebook And Twitter In the Past Few Days

Since the time is sadly closer, I might as well just say it: my mom's mom has metastasized Lung Cancer that metastasized to her liver and bones, and she was admitted to the hospital a week ago tomorrow. They thought that Pneumonia and Shingles were the cause of her severe pain (and, oh man, was she in pain when I talked to her the night before!). They ran tests on Friday only to find that a spot on her liver and (as she told me) something "on the lungs", and then (according to one of my uncles or aunts) the "really bad" tests results showed that she has cancer that they somehow caught way too late.

She is under hospice care and has only days to weeks to live; and my own hope, truth be told, is that she dies on New Year's Eve if she has to go so soon, since that is my late maternal grandfather's (her first husband's) birthday (She even requested to be buried with "something of his" that he had passed down to their children when he passed away in 1974; and that was the first time that she was widowed, by the way 😢. She remarried in 1979 and was widowed again in 2004. She's also had other losses and sufferings throughout her 91 years, and now she has to endure terminal Lung Cancer 😢.)

Please pray that she goes in her sleep (since that what's she wanted) and/or surrounded by loved ones when she goes. She is sleeping more and more lately as well as eating and drinking less due to severe pain. She has been ready to go for a long time, even before her Lung Cancer diagnosis.
PS To loved ones (family and friends): please call and/or visit her if you can; and please pray for her. Also, as she once told my sister, "Never start smoking" (although she knows that Michelle would never smoke), and she quit cold turkey at 77 years and after 55 years of smoking. She even mentioned something about it to Mom today.

PPS May Yehovah comfort us among the mourners of Tzion v'Yerushalayim, and may her memory be for a blessing when & after she passes. For those whom want her Hebrew name, meanwhile, since she is of Jewish ancestry (although she does has gentile ancestry as well): Miriam Eliora bat Yochanahn Chaim* v'Miriam Margolit**. ***

*(ben Gdaliya ben Binyamin Yochanahn v'Natan'elah)

**(bat Yochanahn Toma v'Eliora)

*** Her dad (his everyday name having been John Carroll Pundt, z"l) was a son of George August Pundt (z"l) and Jewish especially on his paternal grandma's side (And her Hebrew name would've likely been Natan'elah bat Shlomo v'Amalia was she given one. Her everyday name was Dorothea "Dora" Lehr Pundt the daughter of Frederich and Amalia Gunther Lehr.). As for her maternal heritage, I'm pretty sure that she had Crypto-Jewish heritage on at least her mom's paternal grandfather's side, which is another discussion for another time.

Also, I've done family and other research; so:

• Even though she is religiously Catholic (as were her parents), she in my opinion (especially since she believes in a Jewish man as the Messiah) should have the honor of her Hebrew name (notwithstanding that she knew most about her Irish and German heritage, and nothing about her Jewish heritage until I found out about it and brought it up. Her dad, from what I understand, did know about it and never told her about it, which is a long discussion.).
• I could not find a suitable Hebrew equivalent for "August" or for her maternal grandmother's middle name, "Agnes". Her father's Hebrew would've likely been "Binyamin Yochanahn" for "William John", and his mother was an Elizabeth Müller Pundt the daughter of a Johann Conrad Müller and Margarete Siedenburg Pundt, both of Jewish ancestry. Again, long discussion.

Almost Three Years Since...

Reilly's second Christmas and Camille's first Christmas happened! Can you believe it? How time passes...and "Momma"/"Auntie Nicole" might be getting just a little verklempt by thinking about Christmas 2018 will be Reilly's fifth Christmas and Camille's fourth!

Poll On Twitter: "Should FoxNews fire those such as Ann Coulter, Tomi Lahren, Laura Ingraham, and Tucker Carlson?"

PS This poll surprisingly received quite a few responses already!

Should @FoxNews fire those such as Ann Coulter, Tomi Lahren, Laura Ingraham, and Tucker Carlson?

— N.V. Mara Czarnecki (@Nickidewbear) December 13, 2018

PPS:

My thinking is this: if enough people #answer this #poll & give @foxnews an #idea of whether those such as Ann Coulter are assets or liabilities to them, maybe they & @newscorp will be forced to take action in re Ann Coulter & their other controversial employees & contributors. https://t.co/TBTTXUOSZ9

— N.V. Mara Czarnecki (@Nickidewbear) December 13, 2018