Well it looks like we’ll manage to survive our first work week at home and we’re hitting the 9 weeks old mark. Hopefully this will make training a little easier on everyone and perhaps we can retain a few more things as well, although I won’t really have my hopes up until about 3 months. […]

Whatever her problem was yesterday, she is thankfully back to “normal” today. I’m hoping the crazy, hyper, nutso, jumping dog behavior is not something we’ll have to deal with every day but I guess we’ll soon see. We tried a new system this morning. When the hubby takes her out in the morning I get […]

Well it was a pretty bad day for me today. Ayla has been sleeping through the night since her first full day here but it still seems that no matter how much I sleep at night (all 6 1/2 hours), I’m just not very rested in the morning. So I woke up today feeling pretty […]

Today went better than expected. We had very few accidents in the house which means I must have really been paying attention and we had some ok play time too. It seems that just when I start getting bored with the toys, she gets sleepy so that’s a good thing I guess. Definitely going to […]

Today was a big day. We got to meet the lawnmower, which obviously isn’t nearly as interesting as eating ivy out of the flower beds. “I hate the stuff anyway,” was my hubby’s response. Can’t be good news for the ivy….we also like eating grass clippings, bark, dirt, moss and just about anything else we […]