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THREE MONTHS with Tedders Fredders Fritter Fry

Where did spring go? What? Wait! It has officially been three months with Teddy. It has been rewarding, exciting, challenging, encouraging, frustrating, educational, infinitely amusing, hilarious, fun-filled quarter with our new boy. The only thing that really matters is that we love him so much, and he loves us right back! First, the challenges: In the first few weeks of our new Teddyverse, Greg was still working in Reno so I was parenting solo. It did not go perfectly smoothly (although it's already funny looking back on those first weeks...). Here is a short list of Teddy sacrifices that were made before I learned that crates (which he likes) are total lifesavers if I have to leave him alone: - the couch - textbooks - picture books - a door frame - his harness - his collar - his leash - tax forms - markers/pens - baseboards - ...and many more! So that was an interesting time, and oh boy have I changed my tune on crates. He feels safe in his crate, enjoys g...

The start of a new adventure. Welcoming TEDDY.

Hi everyone!  Suddenly it's 2018. So, I didn't intend to take such a long break after my last post. The break just kind of happened because, well, nothing seemed that awesome without Mattie. Even cool things didn't really seem worth writing about. Of course good things have happened in the 4 1/2 months since we said goodbye to our favorite girl - the canyons in Santa Barbara and the Sierras are beautiful as always, Greg and I spent some time in Aspendell, I saw family for Christmas, I got a lot of work done. I hiked sometimes. I caught a big fish on my birthday. I don't know. When Mattie was here even stupid little things seemed hilarious and fun and easy to share with everybody. Without her I mostly felt sad all the time, and Greg and I were both wearing our "shitty goggles" - our imaginary goggles that made even the coolest things seem lame because Mattie wasn't here to share them with us - for quite a while. Like...months. Slowly things started ...