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My carpets are SO clean and fresh right now! I LOVE my new carpet cleaner. It's taking a bit to dry, so when Brandon and Sara come over for Bible study tonight, we may have to study in the dining room instead of the living room, but my house smells clean!!!
If I'm this excited about a carpet cleaner, I must be an official adult housewife now. :-P
Almost all of the windows have been covered in plastic. 20 windows down, 6 to go. And maybe the basement windows, we'll see.
Also, I the front yard has been raked, but I have to wait for the snow from last night to melt before I finish the backyard. I just hope I can finish before the snow actually sticks!
Now to finish the window plastic, wash dishes, fold laundry, start dinner (vegetable soup!), and clean the carpet in Dominic's office once his work day is over. Have a great day! |
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*Whew* If training a puppy is this hard, I am going to need a lot of patience when I have kids. ;-)
Bevyn is slowly learning his new potty routine. The first day we started this, he was locked in his cage (minus attempted potty breaks) from 11:30am to 9:15pm. The second day he was in there from 11:30 to about 4ish, and only had one accident as opposed to the usual 2-3. Today he was only in there for about 30 minutes! Sadly he'll have to stay in the cage more than we'd like today since it's Sunday. I'm just glad he's learning!
I think I'm going to purchase a carpet steam cleaner in the coming week. I am nervous this house smells like urine to people who don't live here and are adjusted to the smell. Then after a thorough cleaning, all I'll have to do when there is an accident is clean that one area really quickly. Yay!
Time to get ready to go. Maybe Dominic will let me walk to church in the snow. :-D |
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Bevyn FINALLY went potty a few minutes ago, and we made a HUGE fuss about it. Dominic ran him around the outside of the house about 4 times, gave him a treat, and we both got on the kitchen floor and played with him for a while. He was SO happy! He was jumping and almost flipping around, banging into things because he was so excited.
Now hopefully we won't have to do this for so long tomorrow. |
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I feel so sorry for our stubborn little puppy right now. He has been in his cage with no toys since 11:30 this morning, with an attempted potty break every ten minutes.
I have basically devoted my entire day (except for little jobs here and there that can be done in a 10 minute time span) to trying to train this puppy. He has been taking a very long time to potty train, so we decided to try a new method starting yesterday. We take him out on a leash to potty, and don't play with him until he goes. If he goes, we let him off the leash, praise him, and play with him for a while. Basically make a big fuss about it. If he doesn't go, we take him downstairs and put him in his cage for 10 minutes, and try again. This way he knows he cannot have playtime until he goes potty, and it prevents hims from going on the carpet in the meantime.
Well, this puppy is a stubborn one. He has not gone since 7:30 this morning! At 11:30, I decided it was time to potty again. I took him outside, he didn't go. So into his crate he went. So every 10 minutes I have been taking this dog out, and he will not go! He is getting so depressed that we keep putting him in his cage, and I almost want to give up, but I know we must be consistent. If he would just go potty he would see how much we want him to be up here with us and he wouldn't have to go back in his cage! I wish he understood that when I tell him that. :-(
Well, I think his ten minutes are up. Back into the cold to try to get him to go. |
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Not really anything in particular to post about, just in a talkative mood right now.
Today we had a lot more snow, and it actually stayed on the ground this time. Everything was covered in white! And Dominic says I enjoyed things that he never would have noticed, like the way the snow rests on the tops of the letters on signs, and how the Pine City pioneer statue only had snow on the left side of his face, where the wind was blowing. And how today's snow was different than the past few days. It was more like the snow I was expecting. Not really flakey, and you can't see any shape. Just tiny pieces of ice that prickle your face and bounce on the ground when they fall. And you have to use your windshield wipers with this kind of snow.
I think I'm sort of like a toddler who calls every four-legged animal "Dog." Everything that is not rain is snow to me. Maybe it wasn't snow at all. Maybe it's what they call freezing rain (which to my surprise doesn't mean just really cold rain). Or sleet. Or slush. I'm really not sure. Oh well, I'll just stick to jumping up and down, excitedly pointing, and exclaiming, "SNOW! SNOW!"
Life is good lately. Not that it was bad before, but I'm learning to be content and even happy with some things in my life that need patience. Everything happens in His time. I hadn't necessarily forgotten that, but I had been trying this whole time to figure out what He was trying to get me to learn and learn it--fast! But now, though I'm still trying to learn whatever I can, I'm beginning to appreciate the meantime more for what it is.
In sillier news, my sister and I were having a debate today. I was telling her how much I love the Christmas season, but how sad it is the day after Christmas! She thinks there's no point in getting so involved in the season because it's all over in one day. Is it better not to love, since one day it will be suddenly over? I think not. Now, Erin and Dominic think I'm being entirely overdramatic about this whole deal (and yes, I am being a bit silly), but I want to hear your thoughts! Is it better to love the season and be sad when it's over, or to not care and therefore experience no highs and no lows?
I will say, though, that it is entirely possible to overdo the season. Last year my co-worker in the next-door cubicle and I went shopping together and put up our office Christmas decor in mid October and played Christmas music every day. Unfortunately, we were tired of the music and the decor by the time Christmas actually came around. The amount of time one can enjoy the season to its fullest but still not get tired of it is very hard to pin down. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it is one of the more difficult questions mankind has to wrestle with.
Now I will leave you with all these ponderings. And made-up words like "ponderings." Good night. |
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