Once again, I'm slacking on the posting. There for a while, I had a lot of stuff to post about. When we were doing work outside this summer, it seemed like every week there was something new. There was always wedding stuff to post about this summer. We are coming up on our last wedding this weekend and then we are done until the spring. Winter just seems to be the general slow time for wedding season. Andrew wanted a winter wedding, but with the Midwest weather being so insane and unpredictable, I couldn't commit to that. Of course, with the winter we had last year I think we would have been fine. Oh well!
Last week I hosted a jewelry party at my house, so I spent most of the week getting ready for that. Thank you to all those that came, I enjoyed seeing you all! After the party, I really had no motivation to do anything house related. My lack of motivation seems to have carried into this week as well. I get home at night from work and I am dead tired and all I want to do is sit on my rear and watch TV. I know many of you can relate. Just when I think I can do just that, sit down and do nothing, I remember there is dinner to cook and dogs to feed and laundry to do and bills to pay....
For those that don't know, Andrew and I work split shifts. Sometimes I find it difficult to deal with him not being home at night, but it does have its perks. For example, if I leave a load of laundry or two out, he will do them for me. If I had a crock pot recipe I want to get going, he will start it for me. He takes care of the dogs and keeps them company. Today, he cleaned up the kitchen for me. Don't you wish you could come home and find the laundry fairy came to visit?
A few of you have asked me how Maya is doing and how Maya and Buddy are getting along. As of yesterday, Maya is six months old! You can totally tell she is still a puppy too. She and Buddy are getting along quite well. They love to chase each other around the house and around the yard. Buddy can keep up with Maya when he wants to, but most times he is content to outsmart her and run the opposite direction to meet her. Last month, Maya was spayed. She was such a good girl and didn't like at her stitches, so we didn't have to put the lovely e collar on her. No cone days for Maya! The same day, she also had one of her last baby teeth removed to make room for her adult teeth to come in, and she was micro chipped. She did great with the surgery and has made a full recovery, with the exception of the hair they had to shave. She still looks a little odd with some of the hair on her belly shaved off.
The ongoing issue we have had with Maya are her ears. When we first got her and had her checked out, she had a pretty bad yeast infection in both ears. We have since been able to get rid of the infection in her left ear, but she still has a mild case in the right year. For Beagles, ear care is a pretty big deal. Their adorable floppy ears are prone to infections. Our first course of action was a medicated drop/spray a couple of times per day. Maya got pretty good at sitting still and letting us put it in her ears. When that didn't clear things up in the right ear, we added a medicated rinse. We were doing the rinse a couple of times per day and the other drop once per day. It was quite the routine. I think we finally have things cleared up now; she doesn't seem to be scratching like she used to. She does really well when we mess with her ears and just goes on about her business when we are done. Buddy, on the other hand, hates when we go anywhere near his ears. We try to clean his out with a general rinse every couple of weeks. When we do that, it is followed by a couple hours of him going back and forth across the living room rubbing his ear on the floor. You would think we were torturing him, poor duder. We can't help but laugh when he does it because it is just so insane and Maya just stands there and looks at him like "what is your problem, dude".
Our doggies keep us on our toes, but we wouldn't trade them for the world. When Andrew calls me at night to let me know he is headed home from work, they are waiting by the door for him when he comes home. Maya loves to share her kisses with him and Buddy will take all the tummy rubs he can get. They are pretty amazing. Sometimes, they make me want to pull my hair out though. There was the night I came home and found poop on the living room floor (courtesy of Buddy) and Maya's food container tipped over with food pouring out. No telling how much of Maya's food Buddy actually ate, but he was a little messed up in the tummy for a few days. I think he learned his lesson, because he has left her food alone since. There was the morning that I was drying my hair and came out to find a piece of aluminum foil shredded to bits all over my freshly vacuumed floor, that was courtesy of Maya. There are of course the million toys they have destroyed. There is the fact that I can't eat a meal without them staring at me like I am their last meal, or the fact that they are right at my feet when I'm in the kitchen. Our lives have certainly changed with two dogs in them. So, for those of you wondering when we are going to get arond to having kids, as you have read we already have two. Until Maya is a little older, I don't think I could handle adding two more feet to the eight I already have chasing me around at night.
What would we do without our pets!
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