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Good Sunday morning everyone! Well it’s been one heck of a week. I guess I don’t remember just how much work a puppy can be because Sammy is wearing me out. By the time 9pm rolls around, I’m ready for bed. He never quits. I thank my lucky stars when he finally naps because the rest of the time is a battle – lol.

He’s quite the character though. He loves chasing his tail and it’s pretty funny. I tried to get a picture but it didn’t work for this week so maybe next week. He’s a complete brat outside. His new game is running laps through our garden and it’s impossible to catch him. We definitely need to break him of that because we don’t need him in the garden in the summer. He puts everything in his mouth outside, including dirt, and then runs away from me so I can’t get it out.

Sammy has a list of offenses that is huge. This post would be too long for you all to read. lol. We have had to put gates up to all the bedrooms because he will go in and get under the beds and chew what he can find or try to pull the blankets off the bed. He tries to pull the mat out from under his food bowl and I already had to take the one out from under his other water bowl in the house because he was pulling it up and dumping the water. His other new thing to do is when he has to pee he goes running a hundred miles an hour to his pee pads but I manage to catch him and take him outside. The only time I don’t is when he sneaks off on me but at least he’s being good and going on the pee pads at least. Oh and lest I forgot Sammy’s biggest offense is that he likes to chew my books! Yes I did say books – uggggggggggggggggh!!! As you can see there is never a dull moment in the adventures of Sammy.

What else is going on – let’s see in reading I’ll have a few reviews out this week. I have a few tours for TLC Book Tours that I didn’t get to in November that I’m now catching up on. I feel so bad for having missed my tour dates but I was in no shape to write reviews. Then I still have some reviews for the books I was reading that are mostly fluff reads from last month. Right now I’m reading a few books – I have so many started that I’m amazed I can keep track of them. I’m focusing this week on finishing up Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller and The Forever Queen by Helen Hollick.

Now for some pictures of my sweet little monster…

This is Sammy trying his hardest to chew on the tie of my pants. He will literally pull it and I mean hard to try to get it out of my pants. He’s nothing if not extremely determined.

I put this blanket out on the couch when Sammy first came home because it’s nice and soft. Now he will not lay and sleep on the couch without it so I guess it’s there to stay.

As you can see Sammy has no shortage of toys and he will have yet more today as I plan on hitting PetSmart to buy him more. More as in some kind of chew toys and you will know why in the next picture.

Yes, Sammy considers Mommy his very own personal chew toy. Heck I guess the bones on my hand are just as good as any I’ve bought him to chew. As you can see I have a bandage on my thumb where I lost a wrestling match for my pants last night. Anyhow, isn’t he the cutest in this picture?

Well that’s all for this week. I’ll make sure to get one of him chasing his tail for you next week- actually a video would be great. So what’s everyone up to – did you do anything this weekend or just having a relaxing time? I hope you all have a great week – reading and otherwise!

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This is my boy Sammy!

Hi everyone, I think I’m finally ready to start blogging again. It’s been a hard, tough road these last weeks and still is but I’m feeling more ready to face things again.

Being without Buddy has been a horrible experience for me. I miss him everyday and still cry probably more than I should but who’s to say what’s really normal right? Instead of feeling any better I found I was feeling worse and focusing so much on all the things I missed without Buddy here. I would just walk around the house seeing him everywhere and wanting him back. So many people, including a lot of my extended family, said that getting another dog was the best medicine. Since nothing else was working and I felt I was falling deeper and deeper into a hole I may not pull out of, I jumped in and got a new puppy.

This is where Sammy will enter the picture at Peeking Between the Pages. I will treat all of you weekly with his growing up years and plenty of pictures. Sammy is a purebred Havanese and he’s 3 months and a week old as of yesterday and he’s quite the puppy. He’s completely full of it and of himself and he’s the biggest handful I’ve tackled in a while. I think I forgot what a puppy was like or it’s just that Sammy is one of those more active ones. He goes and goes – just like an energizer bunny and those teeth of his – yikes. He loves to bite and he loves to chew – anything and everything! This may sound strange but I asked Buddy to send me a puppy he would approve of and the next week I found Sammy. Sammy not only looks like Buddy did as a puppy (I did want a puppy that looked like Buddy), he also has many of his traits. They are so much alike which is weird being two very different breeds that it’s scary sometimes. It’s also very comforting to me.

Sammy is a great pup though. He loves to eat and that’s something that makes me so happy as those last months with Buddy were rough when he wouldn’t eat. He’s very playful and good natured – except for you know – the puppy stuff- getting into everything and biting and chewing whatever he can find including my hands on a regular basis. However I do know and was prepared for the puppy years so we’ll make it. It’s funny I’m not normally a patient person but when it comes to puppies I have a ton of patience.

I was also worried that I would get a new puppy and he’d love someone else in the house more than me. You know how that happens sometimes but thankfully I didn’t have to worry. I got Sammy at a breeder and when I walked in he was in a pen playing with his brother. He saw me and from that moment he was trying his darndest to get to me. I leaned in to pet him and his brother and he was practically crawling up my arm. Truth be told I noticed him right away when I came in the door. I picked him up and the rest is history. I was in love and from that moment on he was my puppy. He follows me everywhere and cries when he can’t see me. He sleeps in between my pillows on our bed and I’ll wake up to a puppy nose touching mine – it’s really so sweet. He loves to cuddle and have some part of us touching at night.

So while I miss Buddy and always will – he was my first and most precious baby – I know that Sammy also has a huge place in my heart already that will only get bigger as the years pass. He’s sweet, he loves me totally and he needs me. I needed that. Here are a bunch of pictures of Sammy below for you to enjoy. I hope you’ll all welcome him and come to love him as much as I already do.

I’m going to try to get back into blogging starting this week and get to visiting some blogs again. I really miss so many of you and knowing what’s going on in your lives. Again I’d love to thank so many of you for being there for me especially Heather for going that extra mile to try to cheer me up when I needed it – love ya my blogging friend! Thank you to Helen, Janel, Kathy, Bonnie, Carla, Nise, Wendy, Amy, Staci, Millenia, Mary, Fe and my Page Turner gal pals for always checking up on me and the cards – you all are awesome women and friends. I love and appreciate each one of you. Thank you…

Here’s Sammy… Oh and he loves winter as you can tell – I put his coat and booties on and he jumps in the snow – he loves it! Considering where we live and it’s winter 6 months out of the year, this is a very good thing.

I hope you all have a great week! I’ll be hopefully getting some reviews out this week and doing some visiting while puppies are napping.