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After a long Memorial Day weekend hiatus (plus a few extra days), here is this week’s hint that you may be a pet parent.
#8: More than 50% of the photos on your phone are of your dog or other people’s dogs.
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Here’s today tip on how you know you’re a pet parent.
#9: The frequency, size, and texture of your dog’s poop is a regular topic of discussion between you and your spouse.
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There are pet owners, then there are pet owners, aka pet parents. We’re starting a new series called “Top 10 Ways You Know You Are a Pet Parent” to help you decipher which camp you fall into. Here’s the first tip.
#10: You talk about your dog the entire time you’re away on vacation.
Photos: Erin
Photo: Erin
If you remember from a few posts back, yesterday was Bailey’s birthday party. The weather forecast couldn’t make up its mind about whether or not it would rain, so we decided to move the party indoors. The party was more an excuse to hang out with friends, but we had a blast and Bailey and her friends had a great time! Here are a few photos to sum it up.
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I’m still recovering from this weekend. On Saturday, I hosted a dinner party for Erin and her friends to celebrate her 30th. S offered to cater the event from Carmine’s, but after taking a look at the menu, I decided that I could do it myself with better food at a fraction of the cost. M thought I was crazy and protested on the ground that my problems are his problems; my messes, his messes. So I promised that he wouldn’t have to clean up after my cooking (per the usual deal) and that I wouldn’t get too ambitious with the menu like at Thanksgiving.
M’s protests got me wondering, at what point is cooking dinner for 15 people not worth the effort? It took me about 14 hours to plan the menu, order the groceries, and cook and bake everything. And the clean-up. Was it worth it? Well, let’s just say that I enjoyed every minute of it, but I won’t be doing it again for a while. Although in all fairness, I’m not sure if it was the dinner prep that’s left me still in recovery mode, or staying up ’til 4 in the morning singing karaoke with the birthday girl…
After all that, I’m looking ahead to planning another birthday party … Bailey’s! Thankfully, this will be more low-key. Of course there will be treats for the dogs, but we’ll also have something for the humans. Perhaps some Bailey-shaped maple butter cookies. For Erin’s birthday dinner, I baked a red velvet cake with cream cheese/mascarpone frosting. It was so good that I couldn’t help saying it was so good in front of the guests, which I know, I know is bad form. But it was really good, so perhaps I’ll make a cupcake version for Bailey’s party. I followed this recipe to the dot, minus about 5 tablespoons of red food coloring. 6 tablespoons seemed excessive, a typo even.
I have a few more ideas that I want to try when my mom comes for a visit tomorrow, so stay tuned for more doggie and human treat recipes and pictures.
Photo: Erin
Being the astute reader that you are, you probably noticed that I didn’t write my usual weekend recap yesterday. Part of the reason for the switcharoo was because I didn’t want you to miss out on the beautiful Mascot collars on sale yesterday. But really, it was because I started to get sick last week, and it snowballed when I tried to pack the weekend with too many activities. What can I say … I live for the weekends. This weekend was the much anticipated Hunger Games and the fifth season of Mad Men, but unfortunately, neither lived up to the hype (don’t you agree?).
The real highlight of the weekend was our day trip to Williamsburg.
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