Comments on: My Child? http://1912bungalow.com/2004/02/my-child/ Articles, reviews, tons of before & after photos, house restoration and interviews for the house obsessed. Get inspired! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sandra http://1912bungalow.com/2004/02/my-child/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Sandra Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:32:24 +0000 http://1912bungalow.com/blog/2004/02/25/my-child/#comment-155 Hi Heather! I know it's almost three years since you posted the above musing, but I couldn't resist writing to say that I too am in the same boat. My cat, Mr. Knightley is our precious "child" who never wants for anything, gets spoiled rotten, is asked after by the family, etc. He's our baby. Then again, so is our home, "Harmonie". See, we even named it. :-) We've been here 9 years and are constantly busy with taking care of our 1917 home. Thus far we've been researching the original family history, redoing one of the upstairs guest rooms, planning on a complete laundry room restoration (especially since I've been getting pieces of plaster coming down on my head), and future painting projects. I've enjoyed visiting this site and have become inspired tremendously. I've enjoyed all your house vids and pics. You and Dave have done a fabulous job! I think I've become overly inspired and have been hounding the husband about new projects! I think he might just ban me from visiting this site. :-) Nah! He wouldn't dare. Take care and lots of luck! Hi Heather!
I know it’s almost three years since you posted the above musing, but I couldn’t resist writing to say that I too am in the same boat. My cat, Mr. Knightley is our precious “child” who never wants for anything, gets spoiled rotten, is asked after by the family, etc. He’s our baby.
Then again, so is our home, “Harmonie”. See, we even named it. :-) We’ve been here 9 years and are constantly busy with taking care of our 1917 home. Thus far we’ve been researching the original family history, redoing one of the upstairs guest rooms, planning on a complete laundry room restoration (especially since I’ve been getting pieces of plaster coming down on my head), and future painting projects.
I’ve enjoyed visiting this site and have become inspired tremendously. I’ve enjoyed all your house vids and pics. You and Dave have done a fabulous job! I think I’ve become overly inspired and have been hounding the husband about new projects!
I think he might just ban me from visiting this site. :-) Nah! He wouldn’t dare.
Take care and lots of luck!

]]> By: Jenny http://1912bungalow.com/2004/02/my-child/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Jenny Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:32:47 +0000 http://1912bungalow.com/blog/2004/02/25/my-child/#comment-154 Too funny! We too have two dogs that are our "babies". Sadie Sue Harr is a 6 year old Westie and Buddy Boy Harr is a 11 month old Jack Russell. I was so excited about the dog bed I just bought that I told my sister about it and now she wants one for her Boston Terrier, Benny. The reason we got a second dog was because Sadie needed a buddy. We kept asking her if she wanted a "buddy". So once we got another dog we felt we had to name him Buddy so she knew who we'd been referring to. My father n law actually stops by to visit the dogs and the whole time he is over he is on the floor playing with them while I try to make idle chit chat for the sake of normalcy. My grandparents keeps dog treats in his trunk for my dogs. He doesn't own a dog. They always tell me to say hi to the dogs when they call. I found a needle point Christmas stocking with a picture of a Westie on it and had my grandmother stitch "Sadie" on the top. Now I am searching for a Jack Russell needle point stocking. So far no luck. We are also looking for baskets for our bikes so the dogs can go for bike rides with us. LOL! Too funny!

We too have two dogs that are our “babies”. Sadie Sue Harr is a 6 year old Westie and Buddy Boy Harr is a 11 month old Jack Russell.

I was so excited about the dog bed I just bought that I told my sister about it and now she wants one for her Boston Terrier, Benny.

The reason we got a second dog was because Sadie needed a buddy. We kept asking her if she wanted a “buddy”. So once we got another dog we felt we had to name him Buddy so she knew who we’d been referring to.

My father n law actually stops by to visit the dogs and the whole time he is over he is on the floor playing with them while I try to make idle chit chat for the sake of normalcy.

My grandparents keeps dog treats in his trunk for my dogs. He doesn’t own a dog. They always tell me to say hi to the dogs when they call.

I found a needle point Christmas stocking with a picture of a Westie on it and had my grandmother stitch “Sadie” on the top. Now I am searching for a Jack Russell needle point stocking. So far no luck.

We are also looking for baskets for our bikes so the dogs can go for bike rides with us. LOL!

]]> By: Kristin http://1912bungalow.com/2004/02/my-child/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Kristin Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:39:35 +0000 http://1912bungalow.com/blog/2004/02/25/my-child/#comment-153 Sounds familiar, only in our case the surrogate children are our two cats. We plan to have human children in the future, but we are getting good practice spoiling our orangey boys Alistair and Henry. By the way, our first "child" Alistair has a middle name, Owen, but Henry has yet to get one. Sounds familiar, only in our case the surrogate children are our two cats. We plan to have human children in the future, but we are getting good practice spoiling our orangey boys Alistair and Henry. By the way, our first “child” Alistair has a middle name, Owen, but Henry has yet to get one.

]]> By: heather http://1912bungalow.com/2004/02/my-child/comment-page-1/#comment-152 heather Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:27:07 +0000 http://1912bungalow.com/blog/2004/02/25/my-child/#comment-152 Oh, thank you! (blushing) Oh, thank you! (blushing)

]]> By: Kristen http://1912bungalow.com/2004/02/my-child/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Kristen Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:42:14 +0000 http://1912bungalow.com/blog/2004/02/25/my-child/#comment-151 Heather, That was great! You should try to get that published somewhere (I mean in print form :) ) Any papers in your area take essay submissions? Sometimes papers' weekend magazine sections have a 'Thinking out Loud' type of feature with reader essays or publish special Home sections. Wish you lived in my readership area in li'l Rhody - I'd print it! Heather,
That was great! You should try to get that published somewhere (I mean in print form :) ) Any papers in your area take essay submissions? Sometimes papers’ weekend magazine sections have a ‘Thinking out Loud’ type of feature with reader essays or publish special Home sections. Wish you lived in my readership area in li’l Rhody – I’d print it!

]]> By: jmo http://1912bungalow.com/2004/02/my-child/comment-page-1/#comment-150 jmo Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:18:50 +0000 http://1912bungalow.com/blog/2004/02/25/my-child/#comment-150 Heather--Your entry made me laugh out loud this morning! Yes, we bought a house for the dog because she was having trouble on the stairs at the condo. Um, yes, shopping for a dog bed gets more attention than shopping for anything for myself. And, er, taking her with us on every family holiday is just assumed. (I mean, who else would open the presents if she wasn't there?) She was adopted and already had a name. But we had a long talk with her and she knows that she is extra special because we chose her specifically. If she whimpers in the night, I spring up to comfort her. We are trying to find new playmates in the new neighborhood. In the old one, none of us knew each other's name. It was "Coco's Mom", "Sasha's Dad", "Layla's Mom", "Sammy's Mom", etc. Even if we met out somewhere without the dogs. "Honey, you remember Sasha's dad, don't you? Rhodesian Ridgeback who lives on Kedzie?" I am a dog mom. Yes, I am proud to be a dog mom. :) p.s. check out Dean Allen's photos at Textism.com of his kids...the kids and photos are super lovely... <a href="http://textism.com/photos/" rel="nofollow">http://textism.com/photos/</a> Heather–Your entry made me laugh out loud this morning!

Yes, we bought a house for the dog because she was having trouble on the stairs at the condo. Um, yes, shopping for a dog bed gets more attention than shopping for anything for myself. And, er, taking her with us on every family holiday is just assumed. (I mean, who else would open the presents if she wasn’t there?)

She was adopted and already had a name. But we had a long talk with her and she knows that she is extra special because we chose her specifically. If she whimpers in the night, I spring up to comfort her.

We are trying to find new playmates in the new neighborhood. In the old one, none of us knew each other’s name. It was “Coco’s Mom”, “Sasha’s Dad”, “Layla’s Mom”, “Sammy’s Mom”, etc. Even if we met out somewhere without the dogs. “Honey, you remember Sasha’s dad, don’t you? Rhodesian Ridgeback who lives on Kedzie?”

I am a dog mom. Yes, I am proud to be a dog mom.
:)

p.s. check out Dean Allen’s photos at Textism.com of his kids…the kids and photos are super lovely… http://textism.com/photos/

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