Life Happens, and because of that I totally missed Lily's Licorice's very 1st Blogoversary!!! It was July 29th. I can't believe it. I wouldn't have noticed it if it weren't for Teena in Toronto! Thanks Teena for the warm wishes. When I am really busy with my Usborne Books business, unfortunately Lily's Licorice suffers. But that's ok. She will always be here. I have a blast with it. And I have a blast with my Usborne Books business. By the way! You can join my team, and start your own Usborne business for only $15! That's THE BEST offer Usborne has ever had. They really are trying to help people get their own business started. You can check it out HERE.
Since, many of you weren't around when Lily's Licorice first started, I am reposting the first original post. That way you can see WHY it's called Lily's Licorice.
Why Lily's Licorice
So many silly things happen in our lives each day. All day long silly things come to us via our computers, our mailbox, our children, our dogs, our spouses, our telephone - you get the picture. Life is constantly SILLY!
If you are someone who can find the silliness in any given situation, then you have a leg up on most people in this world. That's me. I can find humor in anything and actually laugh about it! Although that usually gets me in a lot of trouble, but so what. I am the least stressed person I know, and I am the least stressed person all my friends know. I know that cause they always tell me that. And I have to tell you -- I probably have more to stress about than most people do! Find the humor in life. It's so much fun.
So, where does the name Lily's Licorice come from. We had an incident today with our brand new lab pub named Lily. She's a beautiful Lab pup that my husband brought home from work one day last month. I was so excited to be getting a brand new puppy. I did not know a horse was going to be walking through my front door! I like small dogs, and my husband brought home a gigantic lab that was only 7 months old yet I didn't have to bend over to pet the thing!
Needless to say, it took some time to bond with my new race horse. Thirty minutes is a long time. She's so mellow and so wonderful, how could you not LOVE her!!
So today, after being with us less than two months I had to take her to the vet. She was limping last night and this morning she wouldn't even get up. When she finally got up she wouldn't walk on one of her legs, so I had this giant horse hopping around my house on three legs! I wasn't quite sure how I was going to get this horse down the steps and into my van to take it to the dr. Somehow I did it--in the pouring rain no less. The doctor first thought she had some osteo something or other that lab pups get so he took an x-ray. He came back in the exam room shaking his head saying "This is not at all what I would have expected." The dog has buck shot all throughout her leg!!! And that's just the leg that was x-rayed! I can't imagine how much more she has in the rest of her body. Anyway, Lily will be fine. We got her from the lab rescue (had horrible owners before - obvisouly if the dog was used as target practice!)
So I decided that since I love this dog so much (wow! I'm actually admitting it to the World now) that maybe using her name would be fitting. Lily. Now what goes with Lily? Licorice was the first word that came to my mind. Black licorice at that! Now when I was a kid, my mom carried black licorice around all the time as a snack. I have no clue why!!! One time we were at a petting zoo and a crazy goat kept getting in my mom's purse to eat all her darn black licorice! Boy I bet that goat was sick that night. We certainly weren't cause we never got any!
Hence the name Lily's Licorice!
If you are someone who can find the silliness in any given situation, then you have a leg up on most people in this world. That's me. I can find humor in anything and actually laugh about it! Although that usually gets me in a lot of trouble, but so what. I am the least stressed person I know, and I am the least stressed person all my friends know. I know that cause they always tell me that. And I have to tell you -- I probably have more to stress about than most people do! Find the humor in life. It's so much fun.
So, where does the name Lily's Licorice come from. We had an incident today with our brand new lab pub named Lily. She's a beautiful Lab pup that my husband brought home from work one day last month. I was so excited to be getting a brand new puppy. I did not know a horse was going to be walking through my front door! I like small dogs, and my husband brought home a gigantic lab that was only 7 months old yet I didn't have to bend over to pet the thing!
Needless to say, it took some time to bond with my new race horse. Thirty minutes is a long time. She's so mellow and so wonderful, how could you not LOVE her!!
So today, after being with us less than two months I had to take her to the vet. She was limping last night and this morning she wouldn't even get up. When she finally got up she wouldn't walk on one of her legs, so I had this giant horse hopping around my house on three legs! I wasn't quite sure how I was going to get this horse down the steps and into my van to take it to the dr. Somehow I did it--in the pouring rain no less. The doctor first thought she had some osteo something or other that lab pups get so he took an x-ray. He came back in the exam room shaking his head saying "This is not at all what I would have expected." The dog has buck shot all throughout her leg!!! And that's just the leg that was x-rayed! I can't imagine how much more she has in the rest of her body. Anyway, Lily will be fine. We got her from the lab rescue (had horrible owners before - obvisouly if the dog was used as target practice!)
So I decided that since I love this dog so much (wow! I'm actually admitting it to the World now) that maybe using her name would be fitting. Lily. Now what goes with Lily? Licorice was the first word that came to my mind. Black licorice at that! Now when I was a kid, my mom carried black licorice around all the time as a snack. I have no clue why!!! One time we were at a petting zoo and a crazy goat kept getting in my mom's purse to eat all her darn black licorice! Boy I bet that goat was sick that night. We certainly weren't cause we never got any!
Hence the name Lily's Licorice!
