My husband is a wonderful Dad to Bobby and Gracie and I couldn’t ask for any better. He’s also a wonderful Dad to the dogs, he just doesn’t know it. He would never consider himself a dog Dad or even a pet parent. It’s just not the way he is. I mean this is a [...]

A few months back I mentioned a poetry contest that is being held by Pets Add Life. The 5th Annual Pets Add Life Children’s Poetry Contest is open to children in grades 3rd-8th and seeing that Bobby is in 5th grade and has recently gotten his very first pet I thought it might be something [...]

This certainly wasn’t the calm, relaxing, take a deep breath week before Christmas that I had planned. Nope. Nothing about it was calm, or relaxing, and believe me, I only told you about 1/2 the stuff that went on. The rest we’ll just leave for another day because despite all the negative things that happened [...]

Every Christmas I try to do something crafty with the kids. We paint or make something. We don’t sew anything. I’ll say that again. We don’t sew anything. Last year we painted picture frames. It really wasn’t all that crafty. Here’s a picture frame. Paint it. I try to be crafty. I really do, it’s [...]

Pre-oc-cu-pied: 1. Absorbed in thought. 2. Excessively concerned with something. 3. Formerly or already occupied. 4. Already used and therefore unavailable for further use. Preoccupied. That has been me over the past few weeks, hence the scattered posts. Hence the lack of creativity. Hence the reason why I feel like a horrible blogger. But…I have an excuse. [...]

Sherman waited for the bus with the kids today.   I tried to sneak him on the bus but the bus driver told me no dogs were allowed on the bus. I told her he wasn’t a dog he was a bear. She said bears weren’t allowed on the bus either, and then she drove [...]

Today I am joining Jodi from JodiStone, Life with Sampson and Delilah, in Follow Up Friday. As Jodi would say “For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week. You know sometimes you post about something and you need an [...]

We are already 30 days into The Bet I Made Which Involves a Guinea Pig and you will be happy to learn that the bet is still in full swing. As of yesterday, to my surprise, my 10 year old son has been able to keep his room clean for 30 days straight. Currently his room [...]

When I was growing up I always wanted a pet of my own. I mean sure, we always had a family dog in the house but I wanted my own pet. A creature I could call my own. I was lucky. My parents,  who had already parented my older sister, were getting to be suckers [...]