Talisman Thinking Out Loud

Boy, it’s been awhile since we’ve blogged – lots of reasons, mostly excuses, we’ll blog about ’em later.  But today is an important Anniversary – today is Oliver’s “Gotcha” Day, the day he came to be a Buck-White Boy for good!

When we first met Oliver we were volunteering as a foster family for labs that needed homes.  We actually got to meet Oliver, who was called Dawson then, when his former family reached out and said they wanted to surrender him.  Mike did the home visit to check him out and it was pretty much love at first sight – he talked about Dawson nonstop.  When he was finally surrendered, we immediately volunteered to foster him.

Compared to some of the other fosters, Dawson’s home wasn’t terrible.  He was with a family that had 2 or maybe 3 kids under the age of 5 and another one on the…