We’ve all done it: promised our kids something in what seemed like the far-distant future. And of course, they always, always remember, no matter how many years pass. In Samm Davidson’s case, she told her five-year-old they could get a dog when he was 10. And now time’s up: “That gave us five long years to prepare for the dog's arrival. Five years to transform our chaotic, messy, exhausting life into something significantly more calm, organized, and perfectly suitable for a new puppy,” she writes. Well, you can probably guess how that went: “What I thought would be a nice puppy environment is actually still an exhausting, messy, overwhelming circus of two parents, four kids, and a whole lot of chaos. So who is going to tell my son?” Not it! Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor |