Even though I’m feeling like crap at the moment I am giving all my well wishing vibes to Pixel.   Somehow she managed to scratch her eye, which has caused some swelling and irritation. The vet said that she has a scratch on her cornea and gave us cream to put in her eye 4 times a day.   We felt terrible, …

Who needs a pedicurist when you have dogs like this?! Bailey was always a seriously licky dog, and he’s passed the habit on to Pixel.  If there is an inch of bare skin, they want to be licking it.  They’ll stop if you tell them no… sternly … err, and repeatedly.  Shouting it helps.  They’ll usually start up again five …

Did you ever get the feeling you are being watched? Can you tell it’s dinner time?  I was getting the stare down by the three of them wondering when they were getting fed.   Xander doesn’t usually do it but I think he figured if it works for the dogs… Pixel turned five months old today.  She’s growing like a weed, …

Pixel is now 4 months old and has been living with us for 2 months.  We are madly in love with her!  Bailey is as well, thankfully.   The housebreaking thing is going ok, the mistakes are fewer than in previous weeks, although she is still getting out for a walk every 2.5 hours or so.  Hopefully we’ll be able to …

I think I have abandonment issues because I had a really weird dream last night with a common theme as of late. I dreamed, yet again, that I was back in Canada.  I was in my hometown, driving around seeing and doing all the things I miss.   It’s all in bits and pieces now but some of the things I …

Have you ever just wished someone would shut the hell up? (I wonder how many of you thought ‘yeah you!’ when I said that haha) Anyhow, today I realized that Bailey is smarter than all of us.   While playing with Pixel on my footstool I guess he got sick of her because this was the result. I guess that’s one …

Some people have been asking how Bailey has felt about Pixel joining the family.   Well, in the beginning he wanted nothing to do with her, but now they are the best of friends. In the morning when they come out of their beds they are so happy to see each other.   They roll around on the floor together, chase each …

At the moment I am off work for a few weeks.  It sucks, and I feel like a total arsehole but I guess I need to accept my limitations. Going back to a 40 hour week after 9 years of being a housewife, ok… might have been able to manage if it wasn’t something too busy or stressful. Going back …

Things have been a little ‘bleh’ here lately, I’m sick with yet ANOTHER cold (yeah, my third since October, wtf?!) and am stressed out and frazzled about a multitude of things. Thankfully I have like, the best husband in the world, so I know it’ll all be ok. So instead of getting into all of that, I’m going to post …

Thuis means home in Dutch.  It’s been a while since I did some before and after shots of some of the renovations we’ve done so far.  So I thought I’d play catch up. Our most recent is the dining room, this is how it’s looked over the years: This photo was taken sometime in 2000, the year we moved in.  …

On Sunday Xander and I left Bailey with Xander’s mother and took off to the town of Sete for the day. It’s a beautiful town right on the Mediterranean, which I never did swim in by the way. That didn’t stop me from getting my yearly ‘first sun sunburn’ though.  Not only did I get one, but I got a …