Tuesday, April 29, 2008

For Dog's Sake! An Update!

For Dog’s Sake! Can you believe I have posted anything in almost two months? It’s not for lack of activity and excitement around here!

As a matter of fact, we could have had our own reality TV show lately with all the drama:

There's the romance of Rock of Love as Dog is tempted by yet another blond, (actually, even better, a pair of blonds—a mother and daughter who were so desperate for Dog’s attention that they drove over to our house to pick him up for a date! Dog has no money, band or limo—he is loved for his white, fluffy personality alone. Bret Michaels, eat your heart out!)


Watch out, Cameron!

We could have used a little help from The Dog Whisperer when Dog chewed off the arm of one of my son, Carson’s beloved stuffed animals. As I tried to console Carson, promising to sew the appendage back on, “good as new,” he cried and repeated, “Not the Same, Not the Same.”

Of course, he was right. The Purple Penguin would never be the same again. Touched by tragedy, like the Velveteen Rabbit or Edward Tulane, he would be forever transformed—more real, wise and grateful, as we all are when whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. All was forgiven and Carson named the penguin, “Survivor.”


We could have used a little help from Extreme Home Makeover when, in anticipation of my mother-in-law’s visit to celebrate her 75th birthday, I decided to re-carpet our entire upstairs!

We worked furiously one weekend, moving everything that was not nailed down from upstairs to downstairs, creating a chaos in the living/dining room and hallway that was meant to be a gigantic, one-day mess. On Monday, the carpet company messed up the delivery day, tried to recover by delivering the wrong carpet.

I cancelled the order, prayed they would refund my payment (they did) and lived with the chaos for two weeks while we waited for carpet from another company to be installed. Luckily, my mother-in-law has a sense of humor and didn't mind celebrating her birthday amidst cardboard boxes filled with toys and underwear and socks.

Then, maybe not a reality show, but a little ER drama when Dog got a bad boo-boo on his leg and when I took him to the vet they discovered an ear infection! So Dog was on two different kinds of antibiotics for two weeks. I had to hide the pill antibiotic in a cube of cheese and feed him additional cheese to persuade him to allow me to squirt the antibiotics into his ear, so he has gained a bit of weight...

The good news is that I took him to the vet yesterday and he is all-clear and healthy, so we've cut down on the cheese and we're upping the walks. Dog and I need to start a regular Work Out, to get into shape for summer!

Stay posted: There will surely be more real-life drama to follow. And I promise to quit watching so much TV and be more diligent about writing all about it.