introduction

Welcome to my little piece of the blogosphere. I started this blog while we were adopting our daughter as a way to keep faraway family and friends up-to-date on the progress. Over the years it has morphed into more of a journal of life in our house . . . as seen through the eyes of a Canadian suburbanite living in a small village in mid-western Finland. Check out the pages above for more info on us, as well as our adoption, and it would please me well if you left a comment to say hello!

Sunday, May 29, 2011

not letting life get too dull

Thanks so much for the kind words regarding Max.

When he was a puppy, I stated emphatically that he was going to be the last puppy we ever had . . . he was a LOT of work -  we went through a roll of paper towel almost every day cleaning up his messes all over the house.

Pepsi had also been a difficult puppy, taking almost a year to housebreak and ridding her of a disgusting habit involving her feces. yuck.

Anyways, we never expected that Max would be gone so suddenly, at such a young age.

So, we did, in fact, get another puppy.

Meet Bruno, sleeping on Joel’s lap on the way home.

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He’s Sam’s dog – Sam found him on the internet and made all the arrangements. He’s from a family in Estonia . . . the husband works in Helsinki, so the mom came over with the puppy and her kids on the ferry and met us 2 weeks ago -  Stefan, Joel, Sofia and I were in Helsinki for that weekend staying at a waterpark hotel (because those 2 kids didn’t get to go on the school ski trip back in April).

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Home one week.

He’s actually a fairly easy puppy (so far). And, he sleeps in Sam’s room . . . so I don’t have night-dutySmile.

Can you guess his breed?

Barb

6 friends had something to say . . .:

kate said...

*I* noticed.

I'm glad you're back. I'm so sorry for the reason behind your absence.

And I think Sam's puppy is a cutie! (I have no idea on the breed.)

Big hugs! (I wish we'd been at the water park hotel with you!)

corduroygirl said...

he's cute! he has the face of a st. bernard?

Sally...4 boys + 1 princess.. said...

hes a biggn. I guess St. Bernard also?

Anonymous said...

Welcome to your home Bruno, you are a real cutie!
So happy to have you back in the loop Barb! Missed you, miss you!

Anonymous said...

That was me above!
Andrea deGraaf

Craig and Phyllis said...

He is so cute!

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