Pray for Stellan

Please read this blog post from MckMama about her sweet little boy, Stellan. He's in PICU right now and not doing well at all. I don't know them personally, but follow her blog regularly. Please pray!

"not me" Monday

So this if my first "not me" Monday post, inspired by McMama and her weekly posts, as well as the other bloggers out there (so far 291 other people have posted a "not me" Monday). This is a chance to tell the world what you have not done this past week. So, here we goooooo!
It was not me who shook my head and laughed at The Hubs when he told me he watered our new plants with THREE full nalgene bottles each and then had to mop up the overflowing water with the baster we use to baste our food; and then proceed to use said baster to suck up some additional water from the plants. It was not me who used our outdoor broom to sweep the entryway to our house because I'd forgotten the indoor broom upstairs and didn't want to expend my precious energy to go upstairs and get the indoor broom, especially since the outdoor broom was just on the other side of the wall. I would never do that since that is terribly disgusting and not at all clean.It was not me who had a moment of personal joy when I purposefully trapped myself (and our pooches) on the first floor after mopping so I could get online and update our loooooooooooooong overdue blog. It certainly was not me who stripped in the laundry room so that every single last piece of clothing I owned would be clean. That is just a silly thing to do, everyone knows that you can never have every bit of laundry done.And finally, I did not decide this was the best time to start participating in "not me" Monday because McMama was giving away a prize to someone who posted to her blog on their own "not me" Monday.
Now, join in on the fun and freedom of sharing your "not me's" with the world!

COMING HOOOOOOOME

I just found out that The Hubs is coming home TOMORROW!!!!!  His flight was changed and he's now headed out and will be back in my arms at 7:40PM!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!  I am so STINKIN' excited!!!  

PRAISE GOD!!  

Please pray for safe flights to Frankfurt and then here.

YAAAAAAAAY!

I LOVE HIM! I GET TO KISS HIM TOMORROW!

Alarm + Dog Not in Cage = BAD NEWS

I received a phone call at work today from our alarm company informing me that the burglar alarm had been activated. GREEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAT! I asked them to NOT call the police because we have a dog walker who comes over and walks the pooches. Thinking she might have either forgotten to put the dogs (or one dog) up, or accidentally set the alarm off when she came inside.

I proceeded to call the dog walker and ask if she had any trouble or anything, and to tell her the alarm had gone off. She said everything was fine (riiiiiiiiiight) when she had left and that she did put both dogs back in their cages. I quickly pack up my belongings at work, inform my temporary supervisor that I needed to leave, and haul arse home. My plan was to ring the door bell, or knock on the door to see if a dog comes running up to the door and if the door was unlocked (or forced entry was visible) to immediately turn around, get in my car, drive away, and call 911.

Thankfully forced entry or an unlocked door were found, and when I rang the doorbell guess who came running up barking her little pooch lungs out?!

Daisy?

Lexie?

Well, if you guessed Daisy you would be correct! I walked up to the door and rang the bell and RUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNING up barking is Daisy. I could hear Lexie barking like crazy in the background too. Unlocking the door I greeted Daisy, re-engaged the alarm (since it had been activated) and let Lexie out of her cage since she was going bazirk.

I walked around the first floor and didn't see too anything to cause concern except a tear in one of the red couch cushions and each dog's cage hand only ONE of the two latches engaged. Thankfully the tear/slit is only about one inch in length, so maybe I can slip it off and try to stitch it up. I inspected Daisy's cage and surmised that she probably forced herself out of her cage since only the top latch was engaged and ran wild around the house. Setting off the motion sensors and activating the alarm.

I called the dog walker and explained to her what I discovered and she said she thought she engaged both latches, but perhaps she didn't. I then walked upstairs and inspected both floors for burglars and pee/poop that I just knew Daisy had left in her panicked state, while on the phone with a friend should I have been attacked. The second floor was fine, as was most of the third floor.

We have both dog beds in the hallway at the top of the stairs next to the banister, where they are mostly out of the way. Right where the beds are I saw some teeny tiny teeth marks and raw wood. awesome. I think Daisy chewed that wood either during the night when she's SUPPOSED to be sleeping, or when she had free reign over the house for about an hour today.

I had the "pleasure" of informing The Hubs of the incident and the "damage"...but have yet to hear back from him. eeeeeee! I'm nervous! Thankfully the dog walker has offered to pay to repair the cushion, but I don't think we are going to let that happen since I have no idea when the tear/slit occurred. It's just not right to have her pay for that when we cannot pinpoint the exact moment it was actually damaged.

Lessons Learned? Well, the dog walker and I will BOTH be double and triple checking the latches to each cage to ensure each pooch is securely locked inside with no way of escape.

Any tips on how to keep a dog from chewing things she shouldn't be chewing....and for that matter how to get her to STOP going potty inside?!