Bedtime Rituals

I know, I know – it’s been forever since I last blogged. But to be honest with you, there has been a lot going on in the Trice household. When I last blogged, Mom was in the process of looking for a new house. Well since then, she bought a new house, we moved to Kyle, and Grandmomma moved in with us. Now it seems I ALWAYS have a lap! Grandmomma gave me a talking to this morning and said that I needed to blog more, so here I am.

Mom came home again last night. Sometimes I think she gets lost. She told me that she was coming home Wednesday and didn’t come home until Friday. What’s up with that? I was so glad to see her! ~wiggle wiggle~ Brother Jingles was still feeling pretty sickly, so he didn’t go say hi to her at the door, so I had to say hi enough for both of us! Yay me!

I was so excited when it came to bedtime. I have my rituals, you know. First I wait until Jingles is safely on the bed. He comes first,  ya know. (Yeah right.) Once he is on the bed, I come up to the side of the bed and let her know that I can’t come up the stairs. The stairs are reserved for when nobody is around – it all goes back to that helplessness bit.

Once he is all comfortable lying next to Mom, who is normally reading, I come crawling over her, wiggle under the covers and lay on top of Jingles. Mom gets so disgusted. Last night she muttered something about Jingles being sick and how dare I lay on top of him. Well I just wiggle a little and *poof* there I am – in pole position – snuggled right between Mom and Jingles.

Then I realized I hadn’t got to the bathroom, so I had to reverse that entire process and go outside. What a pain.  A little while later, I heard Mom asking Grandmomma if I was in bed with her. I looked around and was like, wait, what? Mom’s home? I couldn’t get out of Grandmomma’s bed fast enough. I scrambled and scrambled and scrambled and LEAPED off the bed to go running in there. I had plumb forgotten Mom was home and had gone to sleep in Grandmomma's bed. What a silly dachshund I am! I'm too young to have memory issues!

Subsequently, I had to repeat that getting in bed ritual all over again! Bummer!