Merry Christmas Wishes

Hi dear friends,

Mommy did kill our computer. She says she is not spending another dime on it. It is over 5 years old and has been in the shop 3 times since she got it. Mommy said we can't afford another computer until after the first of the year. So this will be our last post for this year, unless we go visiting Aunt Judy or can use Aunt Pam's computer like we are right now. Mommy is only going to work 3 days this week and 3 days next week because of the holidays. That means 8 days at home without being able to visit your blogs. I am so disappointed, Mommy too. We will try to post once in a while if we can on some body's computer but please know that we will be thinking of all of my dear friends and your peeps. Please don't forget me!!!

We want to wish everybody the best Christmas ever, with lots of treats and pressies for all of you. We have received so many Christmas cards from the DWB Christmas card exchange and they all are so special to us. Before our computer died we also had lots of e-mail cards and I promise we will read any new ones when we are up and running again. I hope everybody enjoyed my Christmas cards. Thanks so much dear Mango, the Maltese, for helping with my Christmas card wording and many, many thanks to Zoolatry for designing my card. It was very special!!

Mommy said that we must remember the reason for the season. All the treats and pressies are nice but the most important thing is the birth of the baby Jesus.

We love you all so much and will miss you all and your peeps.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! & GOD BLESS

Love, kisses and {{{huggies}}} to all.......Mona & Mommy too!!!

Mommy's almost back!!

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
6 days until Christmas

"God bless them everyone" -- Tiny Tim from a Christmas Carol

Hi friends,

She's back!! Yep that's my Mommy doing what she does best....EAT!!


Mommy felt much better yesterday, about 85%. so she decided we needed something to do, so she decided what she needed was a doggie fix.....a George fix to be exact. So off we went to Aunt Judy's. We are still here actally, using Judy's computer cause I think Mommy killed our computer. This morning she couldn't get it to power up. I guess we'll find out tonight after we get home, so this might be our last post for awhile.


So here goes. My first dachsie play date in a while. Long overdue I'd say. You know. of course, that the first thing Mommy did was get her George fix.

GEORGE

Since it's been awhile since you have seen me here I am.

I'm guarding the ball, I stole from Brooklyn. She has tons of then, so it's only fair that she shares but Mommy said I can't take it home.


Before we get on to the day's excitement of the day, we gotta show you the new kissing booth that DROH had made. It is very sturdy and still needs to be painted and decorated but it is gonna be fantastic!!!

Here are Brooklyn, Bandit and George lined up waiting for Aunt Judy. She can't get out of their sight without being worried she won't come back. Very understandable........I do the same thing with my Mommy too.

Harley, on the alert.

"What is it? What's everybody looking at"

"Hey Mona!! Looks what's in that tree!!

"OMD....Squirrels!!!! Lots and lots of squirrels!!



"Oh my dog!! They're everywhere!! Hundreds of them, no thousands."

Mommy here....It wasn't quite a hundred but Judy & I counted around 10 or more. We were sitting in the backyard when Brooklyn went ballistic. Remember at Thanksgiving she killed and was eating a squirrel. Well I think she had a taste of blood then and wanted more, cause as soon as she saw a squirrel she tried to climb the fence. We watched them for over an hour, jumping from limb to limb. Judy thinks the rodents were teasing the dogs but they need to watch out because Brooklyn is determined to catch another one.

It has been a wonderful restful day. It is very comfortable here, almost like being at home. I have gotten in lots of cuddling with George, took a nap and we went to lunch at T-Bone Toms in Kemah. If you've ever watched Drive ins, Diners and Dives on the Food Network, you might recognize the place. It was spotlighted on the show November 23rd.


Mommy has been eating almost nothing much but soup in the last three weeks so she wanted meat so she had a big old rib-eye steak. I guess it was yummy...but then who would I know....yep none for any of us doggies. In case your wondering, that's bread pudding she and Judy shared.



Mommy and I would like to thank everybody for the kind words from all of you and yes I took really good care of her. Keep your fingers crossed she gets 100% well by Christmas.

Love, kisses and {{{huggies}}}.....Mona & Mommy too!!

Still Sick and Very Discouraged

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"There is something to be said about how quickly a dog makes friends compared to a human." --- Anonymous

Hi dear friends,

Sorry we haven't been around in a while, but Mommy is still sick, she's on antibiotics now, and just doesn't feel well at all. At least it isn't the swine flu or even flu and thank the Lord, no fever. It's a bacterial larynx infection. Mommy isn't supposed to talk and if you know my Mommy, you know that is very hard to do. Yesterday was Rob's rosary and Mommy didn't go because she was feeling so bad and today it has been very cold and stormy so she didn't go to the funeral either. She is very sad because she feels guilty that she didn't go but the family didn't want her to get out in the bad weather and get sicker. I don't want her to get sicker either.

I've got to tell you this. My Mommy is not a very good patient and, well, talks kinda crazy when she doesn't feel well. Yesterday she called my Aunt Judy, not my real aunt, and asked her for a favor. She was crying and said if something happens to her, would she come get me and make sure nothing happens to me and if she couldn't keep me, make sure DROH gets me back. WAIT A MINUTE!!! Mommy can't go anywhere without me. NOW, I'M CRYING TOO!!

Last night, Mommy told Aunt Pam, my real aunt, that if anything does happen to her to make sure she calls Judy. Aunt Pam doesn't care for dogs but my Uncle Sonny loves me. After the funeral today, Aunt Pam and Uncle Sonny came over to check on Mommy and said something that made the Mommy very happy.....Uncle Sonny wants me!!! He will play with me, give me treats and let me even cuddle with him when he takes naps. I love my Uncle Sonny.

Mommy hasn't been able to get her George fix in several weeks now since we have been staying home on the weekends, being sick messes everything up, so Aunt Judy sent this picture of George with Bandit napping. George always makes Mommy happy and she wishes she could just reach through the computer screen and grab him. I'm not jealous of George but then I'm always on Mommy's lap to make sure he doesn't get all her sugars.

Mommy found the picture of babies in heaven and thought what a wonderful place it must be. It made her think of Baby Lucas and Baby Chloe and she could imagine them there now playing with precious Jody , watched over by my sister Samantha and all the DWB dogs and kitties we have lost this year. Too many to count but never forgotten. Rob would be there too, Grandpa to all, because he did love grand kids.

Love, kisses and {{{huggies}}} to all....Mona

Another sad day for the family......

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

12 days until Christmas

"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know. How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's it's own and what's alien?" -- Plato

Hi dear friends,

Mommy & I wants everybody to know, that doesn't know it already, how much Dogs With Blogs means to us. A few hours ago we were taking a nap.....yes Mommy did take me to the post office bright and early this morning..... when my Aunt Pam called to say that our cousin, Rob, had a stroke in church this morning and hit his head when he fell. The stroke was massive and he is not expected to make it.


Mommy just lost one cousin and has lost so many family members this year that it never seems to end. Besides still not feeling well, she's going to the doctor tomorrow, this had to happen. Death is hard, as we all know, but now at Christmas when we should be happy and laughing?

Mommy came into the computer room and was just staring at the blank screen for a long time, when a "you've got mail" message popped up. Mommy opened it up and it was a gorgeous Christmas card from Chloe @ http://www.thechloesdiary.blogspot.com/ and it made the Mommy smile and stop crying. Then she opened one from Angela and Laney @ http://thesuperpup.blogspot.com/ and she smiled some more. Then she opened all the other e-mail cards I have gotten and really started laughing.....


"This is what DWB means to us. We all share our joys and heartaches with each other and draw strength from that. When Mommy is at her saddest, she only has to open a pup's blog and share in the marvelous adventures us doggies have.
She knows which pups will make her laugh, the ones that I have crushes on and all the wonderful peeps that have the great honor of our presence in their lives."




Now I need your help!! I want a new Christmas harness for the holidays and Mommy said this one is still in good shape. What do you think? Help me talk her into having Aunt Judy make me a new one.



Thanks dearest friends for being here for us all the time.

Love, kisses and {{{huggies}} to all..........Mona