My Backyard

The Christmas season sort of snuck up on us this year. Somehow our days just ran into one another without drawing any attention to the fact that the holidays were fast approaching our backyard. Our family tradition that some time during the day of Thanksgiving I bring the boxes of holiday knick-knacks and Christmas tree [...]

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I’ve been spending a lot of my time during the day staring out of the living room windows, watching the comings and goings happening close to home. There are three windows that face out on the street, positioned at just the right height to keep my nose busy. Two of the glass showcases have furniture [...]

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During the warm weather season, when She was home all day every day with us, She-Who-Is-In-Charge would come along on every walk that the Big Grownup and I would take around our neighborhood. As soon as I stood by the back door in our kitchen, one or the other of them would call out loud [...]

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My family always ran on a schedule. For as long as I can remember, our days operated on a timetable, with very little room and even fewer precious minutes to spare. Both of my parents worked full-time, and so in order for things to run smoothly for our family we had routines that made things [...]

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I just had my nine-month birthday. I know that because at my school you have to tell everyone in your class some information about yourself, like your name and how old you are, and that’s when I heard the Big Grownup tell all the people in our group that I was “only” nine months old.
The [...]

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Everyone who knows me knows very well that I am not a “Halloween Person”. I don’t think I have ever been a “Halloween Person”. I would have to say that it is my least favorite day of the year, and no matter how hard friends and family try to convince me otherwise, I just can’t [...]

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I have had the most amazing two weeks! I have to tell you all about what I have been up to! I’m not sure what I did to bring this all about, and I don’t think it was one thing but a lot of things put together. Somehow, I made quite an impression on the [...]

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When the Big Grownup and I agreed that bringing a new puppy into the house at this time in our lives was a good idea for us, our decision was mostly a selfish one. I’d have to admit looking back now that we didn’t really give it a lot of careful thought. I know our [...]

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I have to admit that I’ve been a little out of control lately. I really can’t help it. I have a lot of energy and I don’t know what to do with it. When I was younger and the weather was warmer and the sun was out longer, it was easier for me to run [...]

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I have come to find out that there is a scaredy-cat living in my house. A real one. No, I’m not talking about my rascally feline friends Sam or Max. And I most certainly am not referring to the man of the house, our very own Big Grownup. No, the person I am talking about [...]

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