I am thankful when everyone finally falls asleep and I can get a little reading done.
Noel only gets about 18 hours a day of sleep.
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4.11.13 Thankful Thursday: Directly Into Summer
Thank you ‘Oh Great Powers That Be’ for the flowers. Mom says she would like a few days of spring weather, if you could arrange it, instead of straight into summer temperatures, but we are thankful for what we can get.
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4.4.13 Thankful Thursday: A Moment In Time
I don’t know about you, but sometimes, the simplest things can make me smile. I feel so blessed and am so thankful for those moments. Take for example, Louise running full speed when I whistle for her. I love to watch her run. When she gets into it, she runs with such abandon and at that moment, she is the happiest dog in the world. It is a moment in time; a thankful moment; a happy moment. Today I happened to catch this moment on video. I hope that it makes you smile.
What moment are you thankful for today?
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2.21.13 Thankful Thursday: Peace Love & Whiskers Shined On Us
We are Thankful today for Peace, Love, & Whiskers, an amazing blog about amazing animals.
Peace, Love, & Whiskers takes extra special care of some extra special pussy cats and doggies and provides us out here in the blogosphere with wonderful interviews. You really need to go visit. Thank you PL&W for the great work you do in highlighting kitties and doggies that need special care and love. Several of the DogDaz rescues, canine, feline, and guinea, have all needed a little extra love to get through their days, but they have brought us tremendous joy. The Muffin Man, our orange and white Tom, had heart disease his whole life (2 pills a day), and was the king of our castle. Miss Constance Kitty was born with a crooked spine, but did great with it in her early years – until the pain got to be too much. Squash E. Bear was a two times a day insulin diabetic, who eventually went blind, but he and I would still walk a few miles every day. Mr. Motto, the king of Guinea Pigs, had pneumonia almost immediately upon adoption. It was very touch and go for over a month, but he lived another 7 years. Noel, the Christmas cat, has feline Herpes but she is doing great and just turned 6 last week. So thank you Peace, Love, & Whiskers for taking up the cause of the animals that need a little extra love.
PL&W bestowed upon us 2 awards; the Versatile Blogger Award and the Liebster Award. We are honored and thankful for that too.
Since we have been very lucky to receive these awards before, we hope you don’t mind but you can find our previous responses to the questions on our Awards page. We love all awards and appreciate them, but Mom is running out of time to get her work done, take care of the zoo, and still write the blog, so she is trying to economize where she can,
We would like to bestow on Peace, Love, & Whiskers the coveted DogDaz Pick Of The Litter Award, for all the great things you do.
You get to pick any award you would like from our Awards page – because you are our pick of the litter!
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2.21.13 Thankful Thursday: Love Smiles
Happy Happy Happy
Loving and being loved is so incredibly important to my being. I figure it is probably important to every being – human and animal (probably plants too). The other evening I was feeling my usual Mommy guilt because I still can not walk the dogs, so I got down on the floor for a good session of tickle the dogs, and Louise, Sofie and I spent about 30 minutes in a message, scratching, cuddling, (biting each other), rolling session. It has been a long time since I have seen Louise grin in that special safe way that she does only for me. She has this little ecstasy grin. A grin that says “I am in a place that is so special, so safe, that I can relax (for a moment).” Getting a smile from Louise is extra special because she doesn’t do it often.
Sofie is my smiler. She smiles at everything. It doesn’t take much to make that girl happy. But Lulu, she is the challenge. She never lets her guard down and it is hard to know when she is happy. My dogs are a true mix of me. I smile all the time (like Sofie), but very few people know when I am really happy (like Louise). That is because, like Louise, I almost never relax or let my guard down.
Here is today’s lesson from my dogs (the animals teach me so much). My greatest happiness is in the moment. It is when I am doing things like showing love (like the cuddle fest we had). At times like that I am thinking of nothing but the cuddle or romp with the dogs. I am focused on the pure moment; relaxed and safe, If the dogs had the camera instead of me, I think you would have seen who was really smiling. My dogs make me feel safe, they relax me, they protect me, and most of all, they teach me what I need to do and how to do it. To find greater happiness and relaxation, I only need listen to the animals.
Thank you Lulu Belle and Sofie Bear.
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