In my lack of posting due to the crazy busyness and sickness last week, I forgot to mention a very important event.

Edie’s 2nd birthday!

My puppy, the star and real reason you all read my blog, turned  two years old on December 17th. All together now… awww!

Remember the day I got her?

So two years later Edie is still, in fact, the cutest puppy in the history of puppies. She scoffs at the toys I buy her in favor of an empty toilet paper roll and a knotted sock. She has a million nicknames including: Pup, Puff, Dog, Edie Beadie, Bea, Angel Dog and Mamas. She snores in her sleep and gives great hugs. She is the only dog I know who had a comic strip created just for her.

I just couldn’t imagine my life with out her.

Happy birthday Edie!

And now for your entertainment, puppy playing around the little crunchy snow we have on the ground today. (And lots of my annoying puppy mama voice.)

Edie in the snow from Jamie Lovely on Vimeo.

This is what I go through to try to get at least one semi good picture of me and my dog together.

(Don’t mind the just air dried, messy hair and @wienermobile pajama shirt)

I haven’t been sleeping too well lately.

I kind of wish I could be doing this this week instead of running all over the place.

So fuck all this feelings nonsense.

And besides, how can I feel sad when I have the most adorable, smiley pup around to keep me busy?

We were probably watching Desperate Housewives or something equally amazing on Lifetime.

And no, I’m not being sarcastic. I freaking love Lifetime and am not ashamed.

We do laundry every now and then too.

I mean, it’s either that or just throw everything out and buy new stuff. And that’s pretty tempting but I have no money so for now, I’ll just do laundry.

But mostly we take long walks so Edie’s adoring fans can fawn all over her. And believe me, she has many.

Puppies > feelings.

True story.

I couldn’t help snapping a photo on my iPhone of my morning.

Edie pup laying on my pillows with her head resting on my laptop. She’s supervising my tweeting right here. Always in the middle of all the action.

A few month back, Jeanne had a raffle to benefit her roommate’s dog, Rusty. He had to get eye surgery and being the softy for dogs I am, obviously I shelled out some cash for this pup!

Well, it turned out I won a a custom comic strip from MySky.net. Lauren (or Elle!) Skinner is incredibly talented and just kind of took the idea of an Edie comic and ran with it. She chose her favorite Edie post, which was a recent one from last week and the below is what she created.

Thank you SO much, Lauren. Edie is thrilled to be immortalized as a comic and I’m in love with it!

This is how I’ve been spending my summer days.

A pile of library books and running around with Edie outside. She digs in her pool and tries to eat the water.  Then she proceeds to roll in the only small patch of dirt in our yard because she loves me THAT much.

She’s lucky she is cute.

such a sad, pathetic looking pup?

(She doesn’t have laser eyes that burn through you in real life. Pinkie promise.)

My poor Edie had a rough day. She couldn’t walk straight from the wearing anesthesia. Was terrified I’d leave her again. Wouldn’t walk with the e-collar on. As soon as she came out from the examination room, the whole packed waiting room let out a collective “awww” and giggle and said how sad she looked.

Right now, she is sleeping at the foot of my bed wearing an old tshirt of mine that I have knotted in the back. She can’t lick her stitches with it on and now she will actually move from one spot instead of standing frozen like a deer in headlights.

I’ve been told to keep her calm for 10 days. Calm means no running, jumping, playing, etc. Do they not know that is all little Corgis are made of? It should be an interesting few weeks to say the least!

Thanks for the well wishes. This nervous mama appreciated it.

Hopefully she heals up soon and puppyness is back in full effect soon. We have playdates to schedule!

Today my Edie is going to have surgery. I put off her spaying for way too long because I was nervous. I know that’s a silly reason to not do it when she turned 6 months but it’s true.

After losing Princess last summer, I’ve become terrified of something happening to Edie. I worry she will manage to slip out the front door or someone will leave the gate open and she will run away. Every time she doesn’t seem to be feeling well, I get anxious. I know Edie at a year and a half is a much different case health-wise than Princess at 13 years but I can’t help it.

I just can’t bear the thought of losing another of my puppies.

So needless to say putting my puppy under anesthesia and having them remove her uterus is freaking me out. I do know it’s better in the long run for her to get spayed. She won’t have the problems Princess did last year because she was never spayed (she got an awful horrible infection that almost killed her but in the end she died of old age).

I know she will be in good hands and I’ll get to pick her up later today but what can I say?

I’m a nervous puppy mama.

Send some good vibes Edie’s way and hope her surgery goes smoothly?

Now that that nonsense is out of the way, let’s focus on what my Saturday morning consisted of:

She does this all the time. I feel bad for waking her up and moving her even though she puts my hand to sleep.

Now back to my Saturday Lifetime movie marathon. Yeah, you know it.

How’s your weekend so far? Any big plans?