Morning report
Ellie and I are up and facing the morning. Overall, she's been reasonably good about nighttimes, considering that in her entire two-month life she's never slept alone before this. She's very good about holding it all through the night - and making a mega-puddle on her puppy pad first thing in the morning. She's not so good about settling in quietly... I have to spend ten or twenty minutes lying by her crate where she can see me to calm her down, and then just ignore her when she throws a tantrum in the middle of the night.
(I've tried taking her to the puppy pad when she does that, but she wants to play. That's a no-go. We're not going to teach her that when she gets squirrely in the middle of the night and wants to play, she should just wake me up!)
All in all, though, we've had three fairly good nights. I've been able to get an appropriate amount of sleep, and I think there's been at least a tiny bit of progress on Elanor's part. I'm hoping to get her over her tantrums before we go to visit Mom and Dad in just over a week.
Confirmation is today, so I'll spend a good chunk of the day working on the presentation at home. I try to spend an hour on Wednesday afternoons over at the church, so I'll bring Ellie along for that. For the actual confirmation time, though, she'll probably need to stay at home. I think I'll bring her for a quick visit, though.
Speaking of visiting, she met what must have seemed like half the town to her yesterday. We went over for coffee with the sewing ladies, and then visited Floyd Olson, one of my homebound parishioners (whom I knew loves dogs). I kept her tucked into my coat most of the time, but she took things pretty much in stride. She freaked out once when one of the gals at sewing tried to pick her up, but I think that was just one thing too much for her. And by "freaked out" I don't mean got aggressive... she just skittered away to near my feet and yipped.
It's going to be way cold here today. Right now we're probably at our high for the day... it's only going downhill as a front moves in. Snow and wind should make driving a real pleasure! Good thing that I'm going no farther than across the street. I should be able to manage that.
(I've tried taking her to the puppy pad when she does that, but she wants to play. That's a no-go. We're not going to teach her that when she gets squirrely in the middle of the night and wants to play, she should just wake me up!)
All in all, though, we've had three fairly good nights. I've been able to get an appropriate amount of sleep, and I think there's been at least a tiny bit of progress on Elanor's part. I'm hoping to get her over her tantrums before we go to visit Mom and Dad in just over a week.
Confirmation is today, so I'll spend a good chunk of the day working on the presentation at home. I try to spend an hour on Wednesday afternoons over at the church, so I'll bring Ellie along for that. For the actual confirmation time, though, she'll probably need to stay at home. I think I'll bring her for a quick visit, though.
Speaking of visiting, she met what must have seemed like half the town to her yesterday. We went over for coffee with the sewing ladies, and then visited Floyd Olson, one of my homebound parishioners (whom I knew loves dogs). I kept her tucked into my coat most of the time, but she took things pretty much in stride. She freaked out once when one of the gals at sewing tried to pick her up, but I think that was just one thing too much for her. And by "freaked out" I don't mean got aggressive... she just skittered away to near my feet and yipped.
It's going to be way cold here today. Right now we're probably at our high for the day... it's only going downhill as a front moves in. Snow and wind should make driving a real pleasure! Good thing that I'm going no farther than across the street. I should be able to manage that.
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