[Carters Mom]

I know that Carter's birthday was yesterday, 4th of July but I wanted to share something that I wasn't able to share yesterday.

I'm posting this for all of my Yorkie Talk friends that haven't heard about this yet.

Carter can be my own personal type of service dog!

Carter was whining and whining at my bedroom door yesterday morning to go out the room before 6 AM. I was rather pissed, I can admit!

As usual, my first stop isn't the potty -- its the computer. Lo and behold, I had just missed Brian (my son in Iraq) being online by about 5 minutes. I was crushed!

Then . . . he got back online!!!

Did Carter hear the computer alert I have set up for when Brian gets online and was he trying to tell me my computer made the noise?

Makes me wonder . . . . anyhow . . . Brian was going to be on the move yesterday/today. He'll be going to his next location -- even though he couldn't tell me that directly. What he did say was that he would see Roberts (his roommate in Okinawa who is in Iraq too) and that he would call me tonight (his tonight) from his new location. At least he's figuring out ways to let me know where he is going and when - even though he can't "tell" me. From our prior conversations, I know exactly where Roberts is - thus, I know where Brian is heading!

Carter is the hero in my house right now!! Carter definitely earned a ton of extra loving from me for what he was able to give me on his (Carter's) birthday - an online conversation and the ability to see my skin son on webcam!! Every conversation online with my sandbox loved one is meaningful.

At this point, I'm sitting home, waiting for the phone to ring so that I'll know that my son's convoy arrived at the new location safely. The waiting and worrying is taking a serious toll on me. If he never had to travel in another convoy it would make me extremely happy.

So when you're feeling down and out -- just remember that your yorkie probably knows exactly how you're feeling! I am grateful for my yorkie at my feet and for waking me up when it was way too early (or so I thought) to be out the bed.