InsomniMom

1. My dad bought a new bike recently. He's always been a big walker, and goes around the White Estates neighborhood where I grew up, pic...

Because you don't really think that this boy is day-dreaming about all the good things of Christmas, do you? No, I assure you that he is...

Dobby and Zuzu make quite a team. Yesterday they were playing together in the living room, tugging a toy back and forth and chasing each oth...

This is the best picture I've ever taken of Dobby since we got him a month ago, mostly because he is so rarely still that every time I p...

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date," Will wrote in Sonnet 18, and although I'm always glad to see the seasons chang...

Okay, I have pictures of our new dog, FINALLY. Blogger did some dubious "upgrades" the other day which left me with the inability ...

It all happened too fast. One moment, everything was fine and the girls and I were saying hello to Hershey, who was glad to see us as we c...

Hershey is a Beltie - part Sheltie, part beagle. His head is tiny and triangular, featuring beady little eyes that are usually brimming ove...

Yesterday was the first time I have ever taken a dog to a professional groomer, being as how I am an old school kind of pet owner who think...

It has taken me four years of careful tending to turn that flower pot from something that looked like a piece of crap I got at Wal-Mart for ...

Here's a picture of my husband starting off on his morning walk with the dogs and it was not a happy one, as evidenced by the fact that ...

There was a time when I used to think the clothes dryer was responsible for stealing odd socks here and there. Not that the socks themselves...

See this dog? The dog in the little green sundress, looking very cute? Well, that cute dog would be the SAME DOG who found a dead baby bird ...

Honestly, just look at that sweet face. And those boots - please observe their cuteness! And now squint your eyes and peer at the screen a ...

I took Zuzu to the vet yesterday to get her shots and have a general check-up and I learned some very interesting things about her that I wa...

I went to Petsmart today to see if I could find the manufacturer of those two football-shaped treat toys and the closest guess I can hazard ...

I can't remember how long ago we discovered Kong dog toys in the grocer's pet aisle or at Petsmart or wherever, but they are possib...

As you can tell from the title of this post, this is just one of the saddest days ever. We had to take Wimzie to the vet to have her put to ...

First, a simple question: Why does Blogger format images so strangely? This is a very awkward layout, isn't it? Secondly, will you just ...

Aisling and I found out today -- totally by accident , of course -- that Zuzu can fit into the clothing made for the Build-a-Bear Workshop b...