Introductions: Piper O'Leary, Dog Wonder

Well folks, it's official. I've recently purchased the most adorable puppy on the planet. Just look at that face.

It's been days since i've had the chance to post. Not that anyone was holding their breath...but i must explain myself. This weekend (Sunday to be exact) i finally convinced mister to let me get a dog. I've been begging and pleading with him to get a puppy for hmmmmm roughly 3 1/2 years now. one thing you have to know about mister. he's intense. the guy is not easily persuaded. nor is he rash or quick to make hasty decisions. THEN THERE'S ME. i'm just about as opposite as they come. once i get a hair-brained idea (turns out most of my ideas are of this particular classification) i have the tendency to just run with it. for expamle, there was a stretch of about 2 weeks (i'm not talking years and years ago either) when i convinced mister i was going to make a living creating homemade cards. oh yeah. right. i honestly was in my craft room (aka dungeon unfinished basement) working away for hours on end to complete a small handful of homemade cards. who in the hell would buy them is the first question (which i refused to address) and secondly i'd last about two seconds holed up in a freaking basement cutting up construction paper shapes and pasting decorations on them. that's just about as advanced as a kindergarden student...not even! preschool! was my ultimate plan to solicit my 3 and 5 year old nephews as my laborers? lastly, and my personal favorite, it would be humanly impossible to create enough crappy cards to even pay off the cost of SUPPLIES to make them!!! i would literally lose money.

i'm all about impulsive decisions...much to my chagrin.

So...turns out a 7 week old puppy is a ridiculous amount of work. no joke. i mean people kept saying "oh this is good practice before you have a baby". and i've discovered that analogy has some truth to it! never leaving her unsupervised, up in the middle of the night, feeding her, cleaning her, many trips to the pet store, figuring out how to tame her teething, taking her outside to pee every five seconds, saying "no piper" a million times over and over as she runs to chew up anything and everything in her path..oh and the lovely destruct-o mode of tearing things up if you turn your back. got to love that my house cleaning duties have increased triple fold.

ah yes, she's a bundle of puppy energy-there's no doubt about it..and i love every second of her chaos and i have to say...mister is into it. he comes home to see "his girls" after work and she races up to see him. just too cute.

my mom and sister are getting a real kick out of hearing my horror stories of her chewing this and that, peeing in the house etc. they think it's real hilarious. my little nephews are coming to visit with my sis this weekend so we'll have a good time...

sending out a little puppy love

mo