Dog's Life

Bijou.  

(Jouie: pronounced "zjouey")

Jouie has a lovely life.

I want to be Jouie in my next life... (but only if my kids can still be my puppies!?)

She snuggles with me or Miss M at night while she sleeps (burrowed DEEP down in the bottom under the covers, but still touching our body).

She lays soaking up a patch of sunlight on our wood floors.

She tromps exuberantly through the bushes on the back slope collecting fleas and giving them rides (into the house?).

She eats her own meals and then cleans up after ours (slurp slurp).

She perches by the window waiting for us to come home.

She naps. She eats.  She plays.

Ahhhh... it's a dog's life!

Napping House

This is 

Miss M 

napping in her favorite spot 

in her closet on the floor.

It is supposed to be a little spot for reading, but every time she reads, she falls asleep, so it has turned into more of a spot for napping!

This reminds me of a favorite story of our kids' when they were little: "THE NAPPING HOUSE".

(It went like this.)

There is a house,

a napping house,
where everyone is sleeping

And in that house
there is a bed,
a cozy bed
in a napping house,
where everyone is sleeping.

And on that bed
there is a granny,
a snoring granny
on a cozy bed
in a napping house,
where everyone is sleeping.

And on that granny
there is a child,
a dreaming child
on a snoring granny
on a cozy bed
in a napping house,
where everyone is sleeping.

And on that child
there is a dog,
a dozing dog
on a dreaming child
on a snoring granny
on a cozy bed
in a napping house,
where everyone is sleeping.

And on that dog
there is a cat,
a snoozing cat
on a dozing dog
on a dreaming child
on a snoring granny
on a cozy bed
in a napping house,
where everyone is sleeping.

And on that cat
there is a mouse,
a slumbering mouse
on a snoozing cat
on a dozing dog
on a dreaming child
on a snoring granny
on a cozy bed
in a napping house,
where everyone is sleepin.g

And on that mouse
there is a flea . . .
Can it be?
A wakeful flea
on a slumbering mouse
on a snoozing cat
on a dozing dog
on a dreaming child
on a snoring granny
on a cozy bed
in a napping house,
where everyone is sleeping.

A wakeful flea
who bites the mouse
who scares the cat,
who claws the dog,
who thumps the child,
who bumps the granny,
who breaks the bed,
in the napping house,
where no one now is sleeping!