Dec 3 - 22 days until Christmas

Dec 3 - 22 days until Christmas

Saturdays tend to be the busiest day of our week.  We have early morning shopping / errands and afternoons spent cleaning, tidying and finishing up home improvement projects.  And every now and again, we get visitors!

Today, Mum, Geoff and Zena were coming for a visit.  The main purpose of the visit was to introduce our pups to each other, so we might get them together at Christmas.  Zena is a year old, playful, busy and has the sweetest personality.  Bailey is an older girl, but has been lonely for a playmate since Bandit passed away.  Bailey is shy, very timid around other dogs but not mean or aggressive.

The meeting went over pretty well.  We started out with a group walk and Geoff was even able to walk the two girls together until Bailey wriggled out of her leash and headed for home.  Zena loved the fenced in yard where she could run and Bailey was content to let her run alone.  Once inside the house, the girls were ok, Bailey preferring to stick close to Don, Tori or I and Zena found the puppy toy box!  She kept busy bringing out toys and we would decide if that particular toy was Zena-proof.  Zena has very powerful jaws and was able to snap balls into pieces with one chomp!  But it was nice to see the toys being played with - Bandit used to be the one to bring us toys - Bailey has a couple of favourites and the rest get ignored.  When we brought out some ice cubes for a treat (yes...our girls enjoy an ice cube), Zena was able to power through them on one bite.  Bailey opted for smaller bites, chipping away at her cube.  Zena finished half a tray while Bailey nibbled at one cube!

I love visiting with my Mum and Geoff.  My Mum and I can be in a room for the afternoon and never run out of conversation.  I wish we lived closer to them so I could see her more often.  Geoff is amazing with Tori and made more headway with her in 5 minutes that Don and I could make in a year.  He has a way of getting straight to the heart of the matter, getting her attention and making her see reason.  Today's discussion was about college and helping her zone in on what is important to her future.  I know that there will be more discussions, but Geoff helped to spring board us past weeks of attitude.

Not much holiday stuff...I hung some lights on the front window...but tomorrow is another day.