What went wrong?I thought I did everything right. I made sure that before I went to bed last night I let all the puppies out for the last potty before the 3:30am potty break. I am positive they went out at midnight. It was raining though and I didn't make sure they went off the deck and out into the yard but that was because I had to prepare all the food dishes for breakfast. Bart gets one kind, the puppies all get puppy food and Vivi gets another. (If you don't do it the night before, you spend countless minutes with whining, clawing, jumping puppies in the morning tearing your legs to shreds trying to get to the food before it is served.)

I go to bed only to be awakened about 45 minutes later to howling puppies who peed in their crates. I let them outside into the rain and go clean up crates. I re-line them with fresh newspaper. I let the puppies in, dry them off and re-crate them. I go to bed for 2 hours only to have to get up to tend to the puppies again. A repeat of the 1am performance. I get another hour of sleep. Low and behold, I am thrust out of a perfectly wonderful dream to screaming puppies! I repeat the last two middle-of-the-night acts and go back to bed. My alarm is set to go off at 5:30am. I usually hit snooze until 6am. Not today! I was up at the unholy hour of 5:15am. I didn't even get to hit snooze. By the time I got all the crates cleaned it was nearly time for me to be up anyway so stayed up.

Mondays are bad anyway. The puppies get used to having us here with them the whole weekend and letting them outside and staying out there with them. During the week, their whole schedule gets knocked sideways. They have to be crated all day while we are at work and/or school. They really hate that because then they have no alternative but to have accidents in their crates. Whereas, on the weekends we can take naps during the day with all the puppies out in the house and not one accident!

There was one bright spot in my day today though. A friend introduced me to www.despair.com knowing how much I like pain and suffering. This site was hysterical! It really brightens my day to read demotivational quotes and realize how much they seem like my own life! LOL

Bart's mom (cracking up in more ways than one!)