Christmas has come and gone once again and all the hustling and bustling is now over. It is the third day after Christmas, and it brings me great pleasure to announce that we all are relaxing and doing a whole lot of nothing this week.
November and December went by very quickly as Brad and I both were SLAMMED, with a capital S, with school work, work work, church work, and everything else - work.
During all the crazy holiday business, Thurston took his normal retreat to the Chastain plantation in Covington, and sweet Jack was left to his kennel. :( .. until the day we came home to a shredded $200 shock collar and an almost collapsed great dane-sized kennel. So... we called up the newest doggie daycare in town, Camp Bow Wow, and registered him up for camp!
Camp Bow Wow is great! It is VERY convenient - only a 4 minute ride in the car to the next interstate exit, and Jack is off to the races all day long! Our little Jack now has a girlfriend who is a Husky named Lyla. Since he takes after his mom and dad though, the girlfriend came at a price! He STOLE her away from Diego, Lyla's other boyfriend... they had to be separated one day for "fighting" over her ! hahah!
Last week for Christmas, Jack even got to go and play all day on Christmas Eve at Camp while Mom and Dad had to cart themselves all over West Tennessee for Christmas family shindigs. Jack does seem to frequently pose problems in scheduling family events, especially when heading up to visit folks who have anti-dog-in-the-house sentiments. So while I was busy working my magic at the Christmas Eve worship services at the church in Covington where I work.. (yes.. services... plural... one was at 5:00pm, and the other 10:30pm!...) Brad was home all alone on Christmas Eve with sweet Jack. I think I finally arrived back home around 12:45pm.
Christmas Day was a joyous time of my family coming, coralling dogs, tons of food, laughing, talking, LOTS of talking.., and presents. I was VERY sad and disappointed that my litttle sister could not come home for Christmas this year. She was alone at her apartment in Odessa, Texas with her broken knee and little Christmas Tree. Daddy was able to send her presents though, and we all skyped with her while she opened them. It was nice to get to see her - even through a computer screen.
Mom and Don wanted to have more "Noodle" time with Thurston. (Thurston morphs into another Shih-tzu named Noodle when he visits them... ) And so he went back to Covington for an extended Christmas vacation visit.
Jack, Brad, and I are just chilling this week with our bud Julie and her Rodesian Ridgeback named Romy, and her Bull Mastiff named Argus. They are all sweet and we love them. Off to the park later this afternoon, but first... I think another nap is in order!
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