Dixie And The Hawthorne Puppies.

Here's a video of Dixie being her bad-ass self. And here's more of Dixie asserting herself.

Junior likes to sit underneath my butcher block. I think he feels safe there.

Beau and Giada taking a break.

All the little Hawthornes are either at work or out partying tonight and Nana was left to read a bedtime story

(They like Goodnight Moon and Where the Wild Things Are.)

to all the Hawthorne Puppies.

Giada came up to my bedroom at 6 this morning for me to let her out. And of course Beau and Junior needed to go out since certain Hawthorne children didn't come home last night.

I am really not at my peak form at 6 in the morning.

I was trying to imagine Mama Hawthorne

doing something like this,

but the mental images just would not form

and my brain started to hurt

and I got that facial tic

so I stopped thinking about it

and I'm better now.