My mom and her flash! The first night home with the little munchkin who would become my shadow (that's me, slightly fat in those days) over the next 11 years and 8 months: our puppy, Yardley (Meadowbrook's Yardley AKC) March 24, 1998. I'd never seen anything as cute - well, okay, maybe my cat Heidi who was pretty adorable as a kitten...