Niva

Should Be, A New Collar, and A Cousin Sleepover

I have a few precious moments of free time this morning and should be cleaning our bathroom, or making the bed, or getting some real estate work done. Instead, I found myself with a warm mug of coffee and my laptop.

Coffee and Mac laptop Macbook

Owning a husky has been an amazing experience so far. One of the only downsides of living the husky life is the fact that Niva is an escape artist.

When we first brought her home, I bought an ID tag for her collar, but it kept falling off. I finally decided to get a collar with her name and my phone number printed on it and I feel a little better should she run off again, lol.

Black leather dog collar with name and phone number

You know how I mentioned I had some free time? It’s all thanks to my parents babysitting Sadie! Yesterday after the Youth Summer Days at the park, my mom offered to take her home for a sleepover and I was 100% on board with that idea.

My sister’s daughter, Caroline, slept over as well. They had their first cousin sleepover and I was told they followed each other all around the house and were playing and laughing. 

Toddler cousins sitting together on couch

When Sadie first met Caroline, I thought my heart would burst from happiness. Seeing them truly starting to interact each time they’re together is a whole other thing, though! Man, God is so good. ❤

What are your plans this weekend?

Are you close with your cousins?

Messes, Meditative Mowing, and Monopoly

Of all the days I decided to throw away dead succulents and soil in our garbage can, Niva decided to dig in the garbage.

Siberian husky digging in the garbage

It was actually kind of comical. I walked into the kitchen and saw the dirt and garbage all over the ground and Sadie’s first thought was obviously hey, I think I should roll in that!

She lost interest while I vacuumed everything up, but was being suspiciously quiet. I found her in the bathroom, casually splashing in the toilet. 

My hands are full with Sadie, Niva, and Malcolm, but my heart is even more full.

Infantino baby carrier

Niva has ate a stick of butter and bag of double chocolate cookies since she’s lived with us. Thankfully the human food hasn’t phased her digestive system one bit! It kinda reminds me of Lola in her prime–digging in the garbage and eating whole chicken carcasses like a champ.

When I think about the craziness of a wild cat, puppy, and toddler, I just think what would I do without these three? Life sure would be boring. The messes and the crying and the garbage digging and toilet splashing? Those are all blessings!

Family laying on bed smiling

I’m thankful for my alone time when I mow the grass, though! Our yard is pretty big, so it takes me an hour or so to cut the grass and oh how I cherish that hour of praying, zoning out, and making the yard look pretty. To me, mowing is almost meditative. I love it. 

Know what else I love? Hanging out with my husband. We’ve been having fires, swinging on our porch swing, and playing board games after Sadie goes to bed and it’s the best. 

Monopoly

We stayed up past 10 (whoa, night owls over here!) playing Monopoly last night and had a blast. My dad, an amazing real estate broker, would have been so proud of me. I owned almost all the properties by the end of the game and was collecting rent constantly 🙂

The fun wasn’t complete without some messiness, though. We left the game in the box on the kitchen table overnight and fed the pets this morning. Malcolm proceeded to throw up on the kitchen table, so naturally Niva jumped onto the table as she’s known to do, ate the throw up, and knocked the game and everything in the box on the floor.

Well, I better get going. I think I have a mess to clean up because Sadie is being a little too quiet while I write this post!

What’s your favorite board game?

What’s the craziest mess you’ve had to clean up?