I have adopted two dogs in my adult life. (Annie was purchased from dear friends and not a resuce pup). Oscar and Henry prove that adoption can work.
In the vein of trying new things, I decided to take yet something else from Pinterest. Tonight, I'm making them homemade peanut butter dog treats.
The girls happened to have little cookie cutters with some kind of kiddie cookbook they'd received at some point.
The dog cookies were a big hit and super easy to make.
And, because I already had every ingredient on hand, a heck of a lot cheaper than the dog biscuits I usually buy. Because we don't let them have a lot of treats and never table scraps (on purpose anyway), I try to buy treats that have ingredients I can pronounce because I don't want to screw up their digestion or make them fat.
These fit the bill and they were FREE to make. Yes!
I've also started my second book of 2012. Not sure what to think of it yet, but it's a classic and I'm trying to read more of those.
I've read collections of short stories before and have enjoyed that type of presentation, so I'm hopeful this will be one to add to the "enjoyed" list.
It's on my Kindle too, so I can tuck it in my purse pretty easily and try to plow thorugh it little by little as the days pass. I'm determined to read for pleasure as that is something I have only been able to do when I travel for SpouseBuzz Live events over the past two years.
I used to be a voracious reader. Then came law school. Then came a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder. I read of ton of casebooks and then read a ton of medical and psychological journals, books written by therapists and tons of web content to try and figure out how to parent my child.
It will be nice to just read to read for once.
I am not such a good dog mom, Ole gets to lick out the peanut butter jar when its basically empty, otherwise they get a dog biscuit once in a while that I don't worry what the ingredients are and they do get pills daily wrapped in velveeta which they think is a great treat. Ole doesn't really need any but he gets Beano to make living with him easier, he's so good at the sad eyes he would get a bit of cheese anyway when he watches Mia get hers.
Mia is on a thyroid pill and gets MSM and she will spit out pills when they are not wrapped in the sticky cheese. Enjoyed your dream post too.
Posted by: Teresa | 10 January 2012 at 06:15 PM
Sounds pretty good to me. You can tell what a delinquent Dog Mom I've been in the past b/c Henry actually is taking his pain meds following his surgery WITHOUT having them wrapped in anything b/c he thinks they are a treat. And, as he rarely has those, he's all about having something Annie isn't having at the moment. I have also been known to put pills in marshmallows. LOL
Posted by: Guard Wife | 11 January 2012 at 02:22 PM