Sissy loves the new place. She adores the large backyard and the ability to go outside and run about, chasing any birds that land in back there. She loves listening to the cows on the other side of the fence moo and loves how the kids like to run about the yard with her as well.
What she doesn’t like is that it takes twenty minutes longer for the kids to come home from school. She starts crying for them (and it is crying though no tears gather in her eyes) about twenty minutes before school is even over for me niece. She continues to cry for each of them until all three of them are home. She stands on the couch and stares out the window until she can see them walking down the road.
“Doesn’t it just break your heart to listen to her.” My mother asks before she turns her attentions back to Sissy and tries to console her while the old dog waits for ‘her kids’ to come home.
Good thing it’s Friday. No school for the next two days.
image: Sissy, from martha0stout’s phone
I don’t know how to handle this look on her face because nothing Mom and I do makes any difference. We’re not the ones she wants and nothing we do has any effect on her right now.
Breathing In 
Awe, poor Sissy. Did she just start doing this when you moved to the new place? It might take her a while to get used to the new timetable.
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She used to wait at the back door for the kids to come home before we moved, but she didn’t look quite as despondent because they got home faster. We’ve been here a month and she still looks so sad waiting for them. Her favorite days are Mondays and Wednesdays because the schools get out earlier on those days.
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Poor soul, but she’ll adapt in time
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She’s working on it.
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Poor Sissy!!! I think Bette waits for hours too in the window and I feel guilty when I get home much later than usual. Love that photo too!! I am challenging you if you have the time …https://cheryllynnroberts.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/love-in-ten-lines-free-verse-haiku/
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She also loves playing with the neighbor kids who are home all day.
I’ll give it a shot! It may be late or early. I don’t know, but I’ll try. (*smiles*)
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There ya go, a neighbourhood friend and guardian
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Aye. She totally claimed the neighbor kids who also adore her and like to come over to ‘borrow’ her for playing with during the early afternoon.
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Great exercise for her too!
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