Comments on: Simple Gifts – Holiday Traditions with Dogs https://www.somethingwagging.com/simple-gifts-holiday-traditions-with-dogs/ Helping Your Dog Love The Boat As Much As You Do Fri, 23 Aug 2019 19:26:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Elizabeth https://www.somethingwagging.com/simple-gifts-holiday-traditions-with-dogs/#comment-16205 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:28:47 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=3872#comment-16205 I am just now enjoying some stress-free quiet time since Thanksgiving…whew. Hope you and yours are having a wonderful day (quiet like me)! Merry Christmas to you!

So happy about Scooter! He reminds me so much of a little doggie named Ham Skillet, who’s looking for a home in Richmond. I think I will check on him at the shelter this week…

]]> By: lauren https://www.somethingwagging.com/simple-gifts-holiday-traditions-with-dogs/#comment-16113 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:11:11 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=3872#comment-16113 this was a great post!

honey helps you in much the same way desmond would. scooter, meanwhile, is soooooo freakin cute. i don’t know how i ever could have fostered him and then let him go. oh man.

also, props on the no car thing, especially upstate in winter. i went to school in albany and could barely walk to class in the winter–i definitely would have busted my bum big time on a bike!

]]> By: The Lady https://www.somethingwagging.com/simple-gifts-holiday-traditions-with-dogs/#comment-15819 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:20:51 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=3872#comment-15819 Ack! No car??? I forget people live in places with things like public transportation and sidewalks. Savannah proper has a bus system but it doesn’t come out to where I live.

We have always had holiday traditions…but this year I work Christmas Eve and Christmas day so I won’t be going home for the holidays. I think i’m heading to the movies as my new tradition!

]]> By: houndstooth https://www.somethingwagging.com/simple-gifts-holiday-traditions-with-dogs/#comment-15803 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:59:17 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=3872#comment-15803 I love your idea of holiday traditions! I’ve longed for simpler traditions in our own family for many years. My parents divorced when I was seven years old. Since that time, there have always been two Christmases for me. It was alright because my Dad’s family, being Scandinavian by origin, celebrates on Christmas Eve while my mom’s family celebrates on Christmas Day. I thought it was the jackpot as a kid!

After I got married, however, things got harder. My husband is the oldest in his family, and my in-laws think I hatched out of an egg with no family to worry about whatsoever. No matter how hard I tried, they wouldn’t make life easier for us by working to coordinate family holidays. It finally took us telling them one year that we wouldn’t be able to make it for them to start compromising. Now, both of my parents are remarried to other people. Hubby and I find ourselves with six family Christmas parties to juggle every year. I’m so relieved at this point to say that three of them are behind us and there are only three left to go! I’m hoping that this year, we won’t have to celebrate Christmas Eve by dragging a dead deer across my stepgrandmother’s lawn, too!

]]> By: melF https://www.somethingwagging.com/simple-gifts-holiday-traditions-with-dogs/#comment-15741 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:12:28 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=3872#comment-15741 What a beautiful post Pamela. It sounds like you do have a lot of tradition in your holiday. It just doesn’t involve all the hustle and bustle that drives the rest of us crazy. I love the idea of going to get the tree, making a nice breakfast and the walk with Honey. Honestly, that’s all I would need to enjoy the day.

My congrats to Scooter on his new family. I suspect you are a much better foster parent than I. Lady will be my third foster failure. 🙂

]]> By: didiwright https://www.somethingwagging.com/simple-gifts-holiday-traditions-with-dogs/#comment-15700 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:17:15 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=3872#comment-15700 Hi, Angela! What a lovely post, written with your typical humour yet oozing warmth and festive feeling…We’re not slaves of binding traditions either, although there are a few constant elements to our Christmas (which, just like yours, ends after New Year). To me, it’s never about the presents, I already have everything I could ever ask for.

]]> By: kenzohw https://www.somethingwagging.com/simple-gifts-holiday-traditions-with-dogs/#comment-15688 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:05:21 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=3872#comment-15688 Love the pictures of your enforcer of simplicity seeking the practical benefits of those typical Christmas activities.
Great news about Scooter, it sounds like he found a great place!

]]> By: Joan DeMartin https://www.somethingwagging.com/simple-gifts-holiday-traditions-with-dogs/#comment-15675 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:29:39 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=3872#comment-15675 I really enjoyed reading this post:-) Happy Holidays to you and yours!

]]> By: RumpyDog! https://www.somethingwagging.com/simple-gifts-holiday-traditions-with-dogs/#comment-15667 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:08:28 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=3872#comment-15667 What? Whaddaya mean we don’t write letters to Santa?

]]> By: georgia little pea https://www.somethingwagging.com/simple-gifts-holiday-traditions-with-dogs/#comment-15662 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:55:43 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=3872#comment-15662 i love this post. it’s a glimpse into your life, a quiet moment in a manic season.

i had a look at the towers but it was so blur, i couldn’t see the moment. i also read the story. it’s BEAUTIFUL *sigh* and i’m red-eyed from it. you read this on Christmas morning? boohoo. x

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