Dogs do Halloween too: my sister’s Dave

Caffeine is no good for dogs

On the face of it, the statement above makes a lot of sense. Just as you wouldn’t feed a toddler coffee (even with lots of milk and no sugar—you know who are out there), you wouldn’t feed a puppy one. But “wouldn’t feed” is different from “I drank half my coffee and then just fell [...]

It’s with a heavy heart that…

…I have to report the sudden illness (read: death, but tell no one) of Luka’s favourite bunny, Lizzie. Just Sunday night Luka was carrying her around the living room, saying things like “Isn’t she the perfect size?” “Don’t you think she is so beautiful?” “She is the softest thing I ever felt.” “Doesn’t she look [...]

Friday Foto Finish Fiesta 4xF

This is my first time on Candid Carrie’s Friday blog carnival. The theme is simple one—post a favourite photo and say why it’s a fave. That’s her spelling up there in the title, and when you visit her site to see the other photos, you’ll see tons of creative Phriday spelling! My entry: This is [...]

Works for Me Wednesday: soothing the new puppy

Welcome to Shannon’s Works for Me Wednesday‘s blog carnival! We have a new member of the family, a Maltese puppy named Clover. We got him 10 days ago, and he is the sweetest animal I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet. And having a puppy is such a rush—like when I had babies, I couldn’t [...]

Newsflash: puppy has a name(s)

Our little puppy has a name, and it’s Clover. A couple of days before we got him, Luka had asked me a constant stream of questions about four-leafed clovers: “why are they lucky?” “who says so?” “where can you find them?” “what if you eat one—will you be really lucky?” “can you buy four-leaf clover [...]

Mental Health Week: family therapy session with our new pet therapy puppy

Yes, we did head off to the weekly family therapy session with our new pet therapy puppy (unnamed as of yet, probably damaging the puppy’s ability to imprint or habituate to his name or something) (both of my sons were nameless for the first month of their lives…. I may be onto something here). Clover/Pocket/Lucky/Baybay [...]

Mental Health Week: let the madness begin!

Now, now, before you pounce on the complete and total inappropriateness of the title of today’s entry, feast your eyes on this: This is Clover, or Pocket, or Lucky, or Baybay, depending on who you talk to. He is a purebred Maltese, three months old, weighs three pounds, has no fleas. He is pictured above [...]

A great/tragic weekend

This is a Southeast Asian red-clawed crab. It isn’t here to depict my mood this fine day. It illustrates something a little farther along in the posting, which for some reason seems really long today. For the first time in a very long time, Monday morning felt great today. That could be because I was [...]

The bunny chewed on my homework

Yesterday I was all full of energy and positive Mummying and runaway enthusiam when I said the subject of today’s posting would be Thank You notes for Luka’s birthday gifts. Brides get a month to get that junk together, and I give myself one evening?!?! What was I thinking? I forgot that Tessa (my staff [...]