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My pretty muffin, baby love, tweetie-bird, Bella. She has the right idea. Just find a comfy spot and chill. This is where she sits to look over my shoulder while I'm sitting here at the computer. (As I type this she's up on top of the computer hutch, looking down at me.) She never lets me get too far out of site.

She's the one who went missing for 5 weeks !!!!!!!!!!!! when we were living in San Francisco. Long awful story short, I found her and she was fine. Turns out she was only one block away the whole time, but wasn't able to find her way back. She was thin and tired, but otherwise OK. Now she doesn't venture away from home quite so much. She learned her lesson!!!


Here she is this past summer with her "lion cut" (all shaved). I almost had a stroke when I saw her, since I'd only asked them to shave her knots. But you know what? She looked so adorable, and she loved it, and it gets so hot here, it was perfect.


She's just polished off a jar of baby food here (Yes, she has her own placemat. Yes, that's the kitchen table. Yes, I let them get up there.)


Up in her "tree" (actually, on top of the shed.) I had my gardener make them a ladder so they can get up there easier (yes, I'm a little nuts.) That's a good place to hide and watch the squirrels and unsuspecting birdies who come to perch. That's also a good place to hide when Paula is calling you to come in for the night.



In other news:
My Mom loved the doll house. First words out of her mouth (after the first gasp of amazement) were "Where am I going to put it?" (in my old room, it turns out)
She set it all up and couldn't wait to show it to her friend who also has one.
She loved the deviled eggs, pink bedspread and little tiny pot holders best.
When I said "Some of my friends said I should do some custom art for the walls" she remained silent.
I can take a hint.

And I pulled off a pretty good Christmas dinner if I do say so myself. There's not much that an extra cube of butter or dash of wine can't fix. And thank goodness for half and half for the potatoes.
I did a cool chocolate cake marbled with cinnamon+sugar+melted butter, with French Vanilla ice cream. YUM. Now its back to fruit and dry toast. Well, after the leftovers are gone. I'm making them last as long as possible... Read the rest of this post