Dear Santa,
I hope things are going well up there at the North Pole. I’m getting a bit worried here. When she came home, finally, from another of her trips, we were sat cuddling and sharing her dinner on the sofa and she was talking about Christmas. She was really tired, says she’s almost driven to the North Pole and back the past few days so I might be worrying about nothing. Maybe she was just too tired.
I mean, she’d had to mop up half a fish tank full of water when she got in. It’s still leaking and she’s still saying bad words. And then she had to bury one of the fish… or what was left of it anyway. So she was feeling a bit glum. Maybe that’s why she said it. She said Christmas is best for young ones… and then she said maybe she was ‘getting too old for this’! Do you think she meant too old for Christmas? I’m hoping she just meant the mopping.
It doesn’t sound like anything she’d usually say! She isn’t normally bothered by anything as daft as years… says we are all still pups inside and would be the better for letting our insides out to play… or something like that. She thinks a lot of two-legses forget about letting their inner pup enjoy getting into adventures.
I got into lots of adventures when I was a pup. I still do, but these days they are all called ‘trouble’. It’s weird that… I’m not doing anything different, but two-legses smile at little pups, even when they are gardening where they shouldn’t… but they aren’t so pleased when you do the same things as a growed-up dog. Maybe that’s what she meant?
Well, as far as I’m concerned, I’m still a pup inside…even if certain people can’t see that…or are too tired to feel like pups themselves. And I like Christmas…and turkey…and cheese and stuff. She should probably just curl up and sleep for a bit. It’s what I do when I’m tired, but she just sighs and does the yawny thing. These two-legses don’t seem to listen very well to their bodies, do they?
I think, p’raps I should just go and sit on her for a bit. It usually stops her running round… even if she does say things about the size of my rump these days.
I’ve only grown on the outside though. Inside, I’m still the same small dog she brought home all those years ago and the world is still full of wonder and adventures.
I hope it stays that way too. For both of us.
Much love,
Ani xxx
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
We are never to old to enjoy Yule. Perhaps the prep for it is a bit tiring but we usually find our energy a few days before it all needs to be finished.[I hope]
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She hasn’t even started yet… well, not here anyway 😦 Much love, Ani xxx
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You need to go wake the chrismas spirit in her up again Ani!!!
Maybe she is just very tired. I prescribe a good rest!!! 🎅🎄
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Hmmm… you’re the second to prescribe that already today. Maybe I should sit on her a lot 😉 Much love, Ani xxx
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Do it Ani!!!!
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I am 😉
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Lovely photo of you as a pup, Ani… I hope you never change and stay just as you are!
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She says something about old dogs and new tricks including behaving 😉
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Well, I am living proof on that one! (and I still get called ‘a child’ on many an occasion)
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LOL! Nothing wrong with being a child inside …or letting it creep to the outside either 😉
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Never too old. Ani knows!
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She’ll keep me on the right track 😉
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Definitely sounds like she needs a good long rest, Ani. I haven’t started preparing for Christmas yet, either, but it will all get done – I hope.
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She says it will here too… when she stops sniffing 😉 xxx
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You keep a good eye on your Mum Ani. You know how to comfort her when she’s feeling tired and stressed. xx Maggie
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They do need a bit of TLC as they are getting older, don’t they, Maggie? 😉 xxx
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Yep. I’m being used as a footwarmer these days. 🙂
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She does that to me too…and footstool at the same time 😉 xxx
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Must be a human-thing.
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Seems that way…xxx
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don’t worry ani, you can never outgrow christmas, age is a state of mind )
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It’s okay, Beth… my mistake. She’s not too old 🙂 She just has a cold so that’s okay 😉 Much love, Ani xxx
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Dreamt I was visiting your mom, Ani. You were all white, though, but not with age ;-). Your mom was making bread an olive long and an herb, I believe…not sure they were for you…xo
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Hmmm… all white? Better stay away from the flour then 😉
She says that’s odd, she’s been thinking about making bread lately. xxx
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Well, I was tasked with kneading one of the doughs that had been rising, and didn’t do a very good job of it. 😦 I think I better stop kneading/needing. 😉
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It is a good way of disposing of frustration and negative emotions though… the more you knead, the lighter the dough, transforming negativity into nourishment 😉 xxx
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Maybe I should make some of my own bread. I typically use the bread machine, which does the kneading for you 🙂 Funny you mentioned that bit about negativity, as there was that negative entity removed from my left rib by your mom in the same dream. Yes, it was quite the dream. 🙂
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It sounds like it… You can’t beat making your own bread, she says 😉 xxx
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Ani, I hope you stay a pup inside all your life – never too old, and help keep your two leggeds young inside too.
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I doubt if either of us will ever really grow up, Bob. Not if we can help it 🙂
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Yes, growing up is decidedly overrated.
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I needn’t bother trying it then 😉
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Blessings to You beautiful Ani and your Mummy too. Remember, The True Spirit of Christmas LIVES within us and Smiles each time we do….Or Barks…depending 🙂 Happiest Yuletide Blessings~
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Thanks, Morgan. Yuletide blessings to you also.
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Tiredness does a lot of energy sapping. I bet that’s all she meant because thinking about everything is so overwhelming now. Go sit on her. Make her slow down. Good idea. 😀 😀
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She’s all hot and bothered now… she’s going nowhere 😉 xx
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Aww Ani, thats is the best wisdom ever. I gets into trouble for finding the bugs that hide in the lawn, I’m doing them a favour. I love my two legges and they need to rest too they just don’t always running doing things. much paw love Dante x
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I sat on her for a while today and made her stop. She’s warm and sleepy already now… I might even get an early night unless she gets distracted again! Much love, Ani xxx
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The sitting on them is a good thing Ani, I do that tonight as they are frazzled. much paw love Dante x
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Always sit on them when they are frazzled! I’ll be sitting on mine too shortly! 🙂 xxx
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Love you Ani!!
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❤ xxx
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Ani sitting on you … now there’s a picture in the making. 🙂
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She does it well and often 🙂
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Aw, Ani was such a sweet little puppy – but aren’t they all? 🙂
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They are…but she was, particularly so 🙂
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It is sort of sad to cage our “inner pups,” isn’t it?
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It is…and we do it too often, Oneta.
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Lol Ani, you have a way with words – adventures have turned to trouble. 🙂
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She seems to see it that way 😉
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In some way, we are all still pups. About something. If not Christmas, than something else. At least, I hope we are. We need a little piece of retained child in our souls.
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The inner child never leaves us… though some seem to keep it caged.
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I’m let my inner pup, out a lot of the time too Ani. My human has been racing around today getting lots of things and then putting them in coloured paper of all things. I don’t know what all that is about!
I hope your human feels better soon. Once mine got that skinny tree and put shiny things on it, she is starting to feel ‘festive’ whatever that means!!
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Mine’s not a happy two-legs tonight. She left the doors open for me and it is all wet out there. Something had been digging in the garden…so I had to investigate! She doesn’t seem to like the black pawprints on the cream sofa though…:( xxx
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Thanks for reminding us all about our inner puppy, Ani. I think you are right – your two-legged is probably just tired from all the build up and traveling, Once she has a chance to rest up and get some good cuddling in, she’ll get into the spirit. How great that she has you!
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She’ll sort herself out on the sofa with me 😉 xx
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