Good morning everyone! It’s hard to believe we have arrived at Wednesday already!
- Kayla deprived of her morning fire
Yesterday morning was another one of those days when I had a very hard time chivvying Kayla out of hibernation and into the cold, cruel world for another day. Once I got her awake, she came be-bopping into the den to get dressed in front of the fireplace – only to find out that access was blocked because we had put some clothes up there from ironing. Let’s just say her reaction was not positive; tears and drama were both involved. When she said she was cold, I pointed out, yet again, that if she would go ahead and get dressed, she would start to warm up. She wasn’t too thrilled with the logic of that statement!
- No-No and Bad Dog Strike Again
Once I got Kayla shipped off to school with Mark, I then had the opportunity to start to get ready for work myself, in between retrieving items from No-No (Darwin) and Bad Dog (Mandy). Darwin is “No-no” because when you tell him “No” about something he at least thinks about listening to you. Mandy is “Bad Dog” because she really doesn’t care what you think about her activities. (That laid back basset hound temperament strikes again!) Yesterday morning’s festivities included rescuing two of Mark’s handkerchiefs, a pair of my hose, and Tyra’s dog bed from our bedroom from the miscreant pair. Then, just for grins and giggles, the pair gave me the opportunity to rescue one of the two handkerchiefs for a second time last night. (I also just had to rescue a dish towel from Darwin a second ago.) We really are putting these things up; Darwin is just tall enough to reach whatever Mandy tells him to get. The amazing thing is that no socks have been involved in the past 24 hours; I would guess that’s because Mandy has not yet seen a pair suitable for sharing!
- Floor Decorations
It rained hard on Monday, which has left the back yard still pretty wet and muddy. We have beautiful dark wood floors in the main part of our house, so we now have the added pleasure of random paw prints scattered on the floor throughout the den. The most definite, and largest, paw prints are Darwin’s, and the second best prints are made by Mandy. It adds a certain air of individuality to the floor! That air will be lost once I am sure that the yard is dry enough to keep any attempts at wiping up the paw prints from being an exercise in futility.
- Sunday Night Eating Out
I have mentioned before that Kayla’s imagination is amazing to me. We ate out Sunday night, and I got some grilled shrimp on a wooden skewer. Because Kayla got baked potato soup, she was finished well before either Mark or I, so she picked up my skewer and started pretending like it was a pointer that she could use to show pictures of a house to us. She started out by offering us a four bedroom house with two kitchens and a bonus room for $50.00. By the time she finished, she was offering us a four bedroom house with two kitchens and five bonus rooms fully furnished (the fifth bonus room was for the dogs and came complete with 18 pairs of socks for Mandy to chew) with a large backyard (location of said house to be determined later) for $0.00. We told her she drove a hard bargain, but that the last offer was too good to refuse!
Have a great day everyone!
Tales from the Mom-Side 