"Congrats Barney on finding your forever family!" Emmet County Animal Shelter in Iowa wrote on social media after Barney got adopted After nine years of waiting, Barney has left the building! On Aug.

"Dad? Don't tell Hayley." My 5-year-old son was home sick from kindergarten one day last fall. He looked at me with pleading in his eyes because he didn't want his older sister, when she got home, to ...