Happy Holidays

Brian, Moe and I would like to wish all our readers (we're hoping in 2012 we will hit double digits!) a very Happy Holiday Season.  Whether it be Christmas, Hanuka, Yule or Servitude to the Shopping Gods, we wish you all the best for the Holiday Season.

Our Christmas present this year was obviously Moe.  The 6 pound 7 ounce bundle of fun and attitude that we added to our little family in November.  Having a dog in the house again has been the best gift we could have given ourselves.

This is turning out to be a bit of an odd Christmas for us.  We both decided that Moe was enough of a Christmas present for both of us, so we did very little shopping.  As much as I HATE snow, the weather has not really been very Christmasy.  Since we are leaving for Florida the Wednesday after Christmas we didn't put up a tree or a lot of decorations.  A few here and there just to avoid complete Scroogedom.

All of this is leaving me and Brian with sort of a feeling that we are not "doing Christmas".  But if I may get a bit sentimental for a moment, all the things the Holidays represent; family, friends, gatherings, gift giving, that warm and fuzzy feeling the Holidays conjure up......   we are lucky enough to have all year long.  Not just on Christmas.  And I know, a big part of Christmas is to remind us of all we have and a great excuse to get together with loved ones, but please remember - if your Christmas is not a reenactment of "White Christmas" or "It's A Wonderful Life", happiness doesn't happen just one time a year.  It happens all year long.  Sometimes we just don't stop long enough to realize it.

So, once again, from our house to yours HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

Settling In

It has been less than a week and Moe has settled in quite well with us.  The first few days he was very quiet, but more and more of his personality has been coming out.  And yeah, we think that is a good thing.  Mostly a good thing.  :-)

We have been taking him to work with us which, so far, has worked out really well.  Everyone there seems to love him and so he gets lots of attention but most of the day, he curls up under my desk and sleeps.

Aside from the fun of having him at work, we have to be honest and admit that part of the reason is that Moe does not like to be alone!  Even when he is chewing on a rawhide, like in the picture, he stops every so often and looks around to make sure either me or Brian are still within view, then back to the chewing.  If not, the rawhide is forgotten and he's off to find one of us.

He is starting to play more, has conquered steps and pretty much is living the charmed puppy life.  Well, almost.....

As I said before, he does not like to be alone, but life is tough even for puppies and so there are times he has to be left alone.  Like when Brian went to take his Realtor's License test (which he passed with flying colors - way to go Brian!) or today when we went out to lunch.

On Brian's test day, I guess we didn't have the zipper on the kennel closed tightly enough and when I got home to check on him, he met me at the door!  Nothing seemed to be peed or pooped on, nothing chewed so we counted ourselves lucky.  Laughed about it actually. 

Then to prove we have the superior brain power here, when we left him in the kennel to go to lunch today we made sure to latch the end of the zipper to the catch at the top of the kennel.  We came home to find him almost out of the kennel again!  I say almost because we caught him with his head and one paw sticking out of the hole he CHEWED in the kennel! 

We bought this fabric type of kennel because we thought, how much damage can a 6 pound puppy do?  Guess he taught us a lesson!  This thing is made of heavyweight nylon.  Stuff they use to make backpacks and luggage.  Not tough enough to hold back Moe though!  As I said before, Buzz Saw - I mean Moe - doesn't like to be left alone!

Gotta admit that it sort of tickles me though.  We were hoping that even though Moe is on the small side, he would have a little spunk.  Maybe not this much, but ya gotta laugh.....