Note: I changed the title of my blog from "Bitsy's Bubbies" to "Bitsy's Babblings" in order to widen my subject area...so this original post is now somewhat obsolete.
First of all, let me state for the record that I have no earthly idea what I'm doing. My oldest daughter, Paige Potter, of Newman Potter Works fame, seems to be of the opinion that I occasionally write things that are - in her totally unbiased opinion - humorous. So she said I should start a blog. "A what?" She then explained that it's basically what I do on Facebook all the time anyway...which led me to think that maybe she was suggesting this so I wouldn't post on Fb about the dogs so much.
So here I am, prepared to post about the dogs (almost) all the time to anyone who might actually *want* to read about dogs...all the time. But I digress. And you'd better get used to that. I am, after all, 50... so that tends to happen quite often. "Bitsy's Bubbies" comes from my name, Bitsy, which is not actually my name. My parents were much more practical than that. They named me Elizabeth Ann Coffman. However, when I was a baby (or so I've been told, as those years are a tad fuzzy at this point) I couldn't say 'Elizabeth' (really?) so I would say 'A-Bits-A-Bits' or some such nonsense. My much older siblings were amused and a lifelong nickname was born. God, in His infinite wisdom and unmatched sense of humor, then grew me to be 5'10" tall and gave me an unhealthy love of 4" heels. Get it? Bitsy? Yeah, I get that look quite often. So, the 'Bubbies' part...
My husband, Joe (I'll introduce him properly later) and I have lots of dogs. Six to be exact, although that number has fluctuated in the past due to, sadly, death (RIP Eli the rescued greyhound) or simply the fact that we have found more appropriate homes elsewhere. Case in point, Petey, a precious little brindle Chihuahua who had belonged to my ex husband and his wife until she was put on bed rest while pregnant with my daughters' sweet little half sister, Zoe. We loved Petey to pieces, but he was much more suited to being a 'one dog dog', so he went to live in upstate New York with Paige and her roommate, Joe Newman (of the aforementioned Newman Potter Works fame) and their 30 lb. cat, Rex. I tend to call the dogs 'Bubbies' - especially when referring to them from another dog's perspective. As in, "Be sweet to your Bubbies. You already had your treat, it's Dillon's turn." Don't judge; you do it too. Bubby is simply a generic, gender unspecific term for a doggy sibling.
In future blogs I will be introducing the Bubbies, as well as the two legged people in my life. I know. You can't wait.
