Who’s the luckiest dog of all?

Sometimes, it takes more than one chef to make a delicious meal, and today it seemed to take more than one blogger to write a blog post! My best-girlfriend-soulsister-favoriteshoppingcompanion-vicariousmotherofmydaughters Emilie wrote a blog post that moved me so much, EVEN before coffee, that I ended up writing my blog post in her comments!
Being the loving [...]

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Napping on a cold day

Animals really know how to live.  They eat.  They play.  They nap.  They are happy doing all those things, but even happier when their busy humans join them in their daily activities.
Today, while staying in from the cold and knitting the second sock, I issued an invitation to my pets.  Well, actually, I sat on [...]

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On the other hand, if my pets aren’t children….

…why is my house littered with toys?
Pets, like children want your attention almost all the time.  Abby will clean out her toybox trying to find the one toy that will entice me to stop working on the computer and play with her.  So this evening, when I looked down on the floor next to my [...]

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In which I explore my DIY interior design style

Sorry I haven’t posted anything in awhile!  I’ve been more than a little preoccupied this week.  Besides knitting until all hours of the morning, trying to set a world record for the most knitted gifts produced in a week, and baking cookies, I’ve also been steeling myself for…
…Mother-in-Law Visit 2007.   Coming to a small [...]

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The Dog Days of Christmas

Since Tony and I don’t have a houseful of human children, but rather a houseful of four-legged children, our Christmas traditions may be just a bit different than yours…..
We tried hanging stockings by the mantle, but the cats kept jumping up and grabbing at them.
We tried putting a train around the base of our tree, [...]

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