A few weeks ago, my neighbor made the comment that women should not be able to get sick. After this week...I completely agree with her. Somehow, I'm suppose to keep up with the housework, laundry, dishes, finances, go to work and battle some type of non-contagious infection. I wish I could say my husband does the same thing when he's sick...he lays around the house watching television. I was feeling miserable enough this week that I gave in and have fallen behind on most stuff. But that's okay...it will get caught up eventually...just not this weekend or next weekend...
I'm going to find enough energy to get up tomorrow, load all my scrapbooking stuff in the car and go scrapbook for two days!!! Since I missed Bible study last week, I think I'll go to that before I head off to scrapbooking.
Say a little prayer for me that I get better. And while your at it, say a little prayer for Casey...she's stalling when it comes to going up and downstairs. That's not usually a good sign and means something bad is going on with her knees. Guess I'll be calling the dog therapy people tomorrow to see about getting her in. That only means, I'll be home even less, which means stuff still won't get done. Ugh. Good times, good times.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Maturity
Several months ago, we realized it was time to move our golden retriever, who is now 9 years old, onto a new food that is more suitable for older dogs. We did some searching to find the best formula for her, and settled on Iams active maturity large breed formula. I love Iam's marketing campaign. Instead of slapping the word "senior" on the bag, which would force owners to see in black and white that their dogs are getting old, they have side stepped the issue. By sticking the word "matuirty" there, we owners that are in denial about our dog's age, can continue on in our blissful state of ignorance.
The dogfood has helped Casey lose a few pounds, but we were ultimately hoping it would help Casey "mature" a little bit. We are coming to grips with the fact that our dog is a senior dog who will never be mature. In order to prevent Casey from eating trash, we will always have to have Casey-proof lids on the trash cans. We will always have to keep Kleenex boxes out of Casey's range, so that she doesn't spend her afternoon snacking on Kleenex. We will always be on the alert for the lip smacking sound at the top of the stairs, which means she is eating a roll of toilet paper. And as Scott was reminded this week, we will always have to be diligent about putting food out of Casey range if we plan on leaving the kitchen. The good news for us, in our attempt to Casey-proof the home, it's almost 100% kid proofed.
So whoever tells you that dogs and kids have nothing in common, clearly hasn't met Casey.
The dogfood has helped Casey lose a few pounds, but we were ultimately hoping it would help Casey "mature" a little bit. We are coming to grips with the fact that our dog is a senior dog who will never be mature. In order to prevent Casey from eating trash, we will always have to have Casey-proof lids on the trash cans. We will always have to keep Kleenex boxes out of Casey's range, so that she doesn't spend her afternoon snacking on Kleenex. We will always be on the alert for the lip smacking sound at the top of the stairs, which means she is eating a roll of toilet paper. And as Scott was reminded this week, we will always have to be diligent about putting food out of Casey range if we plan on leaving the kitchen. The good news for us, in our attempt to Casey-proof the home, it's almost 100% kid proofed.
So whoever tells you that dogs and kids have nothing in common, clearly hasn't met Casey.
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