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Remember, this is for posterity so, be honest.

April 11, 2012 By loralee 24 Comments

It’s the 100th anniversary of the sinking of The Titanic this April 15th.

In celebration (and to eek even more money out of it), it is being re-released in theaters for public viewing in 3D.

So, honestly…are you going?

Tell the truth or I shall have to knock 3-times and summon the floating head of death.

I WAS going to go an revel in my Titanic geekiness (since I can remember and LONG before the film, thank you very much) but, the writer who writes Downton Abbey (oh, how I love thee) has a 2-night series on The Titanic that starts that night, and my friend Holly (who took the ADORABLE photos of our brand new Maltese puppy, Pinky) (yes, I am STILL having so much trouble with that name, as is my husband)and I decided, that even though we could DVR it, we wanted to stay home and experience it live.

So, what about you?

(And yeah…I realize there are about eleventyhundred of you who are WAY cooler and much, MUCH more hip than I am and don’t give a flying flip about The Titanic and would rather have their epidermal torn slowly from their body and poured with lemon juice than have to view it or hear one more minute of hype about it ever again.

I dressed up as Rose DeWitt Bukater for Halloween this year so I am clearly not one of those people.

So, whatcha gonna do?

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I am totally embarrassed to tell you what we named our dog.

April 5, 2012 By loralee 19 Comments

Thank you SO much for the hundreds of name suggestions you gave me through my blog, Twitter, Facebook and email. I loved so many of them. (And MUCH thanks to Holly Murdock for the beautiful photos she took of my little puppy.)

She ended up getting microchipped today and so we needed to come up with a name.

And I am rather embarrassed to tell you what it is.

So, let’s just get it over with, shall we?

We…um…named her…

Pinkie.

I know.

But let me explain.

My older son had his heart SET on a name and well…he totally manipulated us by teaching it to Butterlump. And when you have your little 2-year-old that your sun rises and sets by come up to you and say in the most adorable voice… “Mama…I just WUV Pinkie so much!” And then you see him petting your adorable blinking cotton ball saying, “I wuv you Pinkie!”.

We tried to suggest other names, we really did. “Aaron, what about Poppy?” “No, Mama! PINKIE!”

It was too much for us and we caved.

Besides…she has the most perfectly baby pink ears, pads and you can still see some of her delicate pink skin come through her coat.

And she is as tiny as a pinky, so there is that.

(Can you tell I am justifying myself as much as possible?)

Thing is, the name is actually growing on me. It seems to fit her more every day. And since we also got it for Butterlump to have a pal when he gets a little older as there is a 10-year age difference between him and Christopher, I thought going with the name he insisted on was the way to go.

I have to go cuddle with my two little ones right now. Butterlump has a fever and is having a hard time so he is up late and poor Pinkie had a microchip implanted and was vaccinated and so she is in a lot of pain.

Pinkie.

Oh, well.

I love her to bits and pieces.

And hey, at least it wasn’t Renesmee…right?

Sigh.

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The puppy we need a name for.

April 2, 2012 By loralee 89 Comments

Last week we added the newest member to our family.

Is she not the most adorable blinking little cotton ball ever?** She is an 9-week Maltese. I have wanted a Maltese since I was a little girl and the desire has never gone away. I’m actually surprised…I thought I was a cat person, but really…it’s the toy dog I am utterly in love with, with the Maltese on the top of my list.

We took her for her first puppy grooming after these shots and she looks even CUTER, if you can believe it. All the groomers at Pet Smart LOVED her and there were about 15 people oohing and ahhing over her at the window. I was so proud. (Though I will NEVER have her groomed other than you see her. It’s called the puppy cut and I can’t stand Maltese dogs with long coats and a top knot. Besides, she’s a pet, not a show dog.) She isn’t quite a 2-pounds and I am trying to read everything I can to be a good dog owner. (It’s been awhile since I’ve owned a dog.)

We all love and adore her so much.

She doesn’t have a mean bone in her body and our entire family is intensely in love with her. Even Jonathan. I was SO surprised when he said I could have a small dog (he wanted a big one so we were at a 14-year impasse) so that I could have something good to think about during all my back pain and months in bed. And because I will have a little pal to do my walking therapy. She should be ready for a lead by the time I am ready to walk outside. And we’ll be able to go at about the same pace and length by then. :)

What we DON’T have for her?

A NAME.

Seriously…we need to come up with something SOON.

Since my son has a tortoise we named Fulffy I thought we might go for the ironic like “CHOPPER” (Think stand by Me, people.) but she is just too damn sweet for it.

I also ABHOR cliche names for all white dogs like “Snowflake” or the like.

Since we had a beloved cat named, Wilbur, we thought about ‘Charlotte’ but it just doesn’t fit. Really, We’ve thought about so many names, but we simply can’t come up with one. (I’m sure I’ll call her things like baby girl, my cute little button, ect. but we need one solid name to but on her licence and train her ect.)

So…I thought I’d turn to the Internet to see if you can look at her and throw out some names we may not have thought of.

Because at this point, despite my loathing of the Twilight series, I JUST may name her Renesmee at this point.*

What would you name her? Please help a girl out here. I have to start training her to recognize her name and I have never been this stuck. Spread word?

*I am SO totally kidding, I’d call her “Hey you!” before THAT. Just so you know.

** In my utter drugged out stupidity, I totally forgot to thank my friend, Holly Murdock, for taking these photos. My son broke the lens to my Nikon 3000 a few months ago and I have just been LOST without it. If anyone is selling one for a good price let me know. It’s killing me not getting photos of the kiddies and this puppy.