You make me laugh (or smile), the sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do on a daily basis, that brings a smile to my face or a laugh to my lips.

Sampson, when I find you cuddling with a baby doll…

You make me laugh.

Confession time. I have a baby doll. And I bought it for myself last Christmas. Sampson is cuddling with my doll, Hazel.

Back story. When I was shopping for Christmas gifts this past Christmas, I turned a down an aisle in Toys R Us, and I saw this beautiful baby doll with huge eyes staring back at me.

I immediately went back 40 plus years, to a doll I had as a little girl. She was my absolute favorite doll, and I loved her to pieces and slept with her all the time.

Sadly after a number of moves, my baby doll, which was made of a rubbery type material must have spent too long in the attic. When I unpacked her, she was melted and deformed and I threw her out.

So when I turned that corner, and saw this doll, that reminded me SO much of my original doll, I did something very unusual for me. I bought myself a gift.

Hazel doesn’t sit on a shelf, she sits on my bed…and… she sleeps with me.

DOG it feels good to get that off my chest. At first I was afraid to say anything, but you know what? I’m not hurting anyone, and people can laugh if they want, but it makes me happy and I deserve to be happy and so do you!

So go find yourself a doll, or a stuffed animal and cuddle up with it like Sampson and I do. I bet it makes you happy.

And you might just catch your dog cuddled up with it. ;-D

 

You make me laugh (or smile), the sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do that make me laugh or smile on a daily basis.

Sampson, when you push the rug off the “step” you use to get onto the bed…

You make me laugh.

Backstory: I have a crib mattress that resides under my bed. When the grandkids outgrew the crib, I threw it out (it was missing some bits and wouldn’t meet current safety standards) and I kept the mattress.

I use the mattress like a trundle bed, so when one of the grandkids sleeps over, I would pull the mattress out, and make it up.

Since Sampson did his partial tear, I haven’t wanted him jumping on the bed. I couldn’t find a step that I really liked, so pulled the mattress out and put a non-slip throw rug on it, so he could use that as a step.

It’s just about perfect.

For him.

It’s nice and wide, long enough and springy. For me, it’s just one more thing I have to worry about tripping over when the bladder calls at 3:00 am.

SO anyhoo, I have this throw rug on it, because the mattress itself is slippery and I don’t need him slipping when he gets on the bed.

A couple of mornings I’ve caught him sleeping on the mattress, but this one particular morning he had pulled the rug off.

He must have been hot.

You make me laugh (or smile), the sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do on a daily basis that brings a smile to my face or a laugh to my lips.

Sampson, when you hog the fan because you’re hot…

You make me laugh.

We’ve had some super hot days lately, as have most of you. I’ve been running the air conditioning quite a bit and it finally caught up with me, via the electric bill.

Oops, have to start turning the temperature up and the AC off a wee bit sooner. Which is where the fan comes in.

Obviously, I hadn’t realized how much the dogs had come to count on it.

How’s the weather in your neck of the woods? Supposedly we are supposed to be cooler, but the humidity can be just as challenging.