The origin of LoveCHUG

OK...to begin let me tell you I am laughing out loud.  I really am.

I ran into my friend at the gym and we started talking about my blog and she confessed she googled "what does love chug even mean?"...her friends have all asked each other too...what is a love chug?

So, then I go onto my account and look under my key word searches, and low and behold...it's there. 

"What does love chug mean?"

I cannot believe this is being googled.

So, I'm just going to say it.

Yup....I'm claiming it. 

I said it first....

I made it up!

[cringing]

It all happened 6ish years ago...

I was working at my Father-in-law's brothers gas station, Gas-n-Go.

I was at the cash register when all of a sudden a lady comes up to buy her 32oz, and a puppy nose is peeking out of her coat sleeve.

A puppy in her SLEEVE!

I was dying!

I immediately:
- grab the puppy,
-fall in love with the puppy,
-give her the drink for free (Uncle Mark, it was 'free refill Wednesday' or something like that. Promise),
-and snuggle the puppy until it was uncomfortable for the owner and myself.

Then I, sadly, gave the pup back to the owner and asked her what this little ball of
wrinkly/squishy/adorablness was,
and she said,

"Its a chug...a Chihuahua and Pug mix"

And with that-the birth of CHUG happened.
Well, my kind of 'chug' at least, because from that point on- everything in my life I loved, or thought was cute was immediately re-named CHUG.
Chug was not a puppy...Chug was a feeling. The best feeling in the World.

Not too long after this experience, I found myself holding my dear, sweet newly wedded husband's hand on a doctor office bed with an ultrasound technician poking and prodding my growing belly....and there we saw it for the first time....

A tiny, little kidney bean with arms and alien head.

It was so cute.

It was so tiny.

It was my CHUG.

It was our LOVE CHUG!

Weeks later, even when we found out that Zuri was a girl, I continued to call our little bundle of unborn joy, CHUG.

Our families followed suit and it has stuck ever since.

So, there you have it. The origin of chug....I, hereby, give you all the rights to use it as you wish.