You Are Doing OK Dog Mom!

So there is this group at my church and practically every church I have ever heard of called MOPS, Moms of Preschools.  All the hip moms are in this group and I assume they wear their yoga pants and drink skinny lattes together at 9am on Tuesdays while the rest of us suckers are working.

In all serious I have some friends in MOPS and I know that meeting with other moms that are going through what they are going through has been amazing for them.  They talk about their stage in life and they listen to other wise women share their stories of how they made it through the tough the tough times.  I know that many ladies look forward to their group every week and they leave totally encouraged and ready to be the best mom ever.

I think I make fun of them because I am slightly jealous.  Not of the having children part, Lord knows I am happy to sleep in on Saturday mornings still.  I am jealous that they have a group that tells them they are doing good and that everyone makes mistakes.  I think we all need a group like this.

I know there are a ton of girls out there that are not moms of real babies but they are moms to cute little puppies.  I am pretty sure there are times where we all think we have totally screwed up our pup for life and if there were ever such a thing as a doggie psychiatrist we should send her there when she sent through her rebellious teenager stage.

This weekend I was convinced I was the worst dog mom EVER!  I had a little party at my house this weekend and Penny was the center of all attention. Before the party I went to my car to get the Cheez-Its I left there on purpose so we would have some to eat at the party.  Penny manages to slip out of the gate very stealth like and ran right out onto the street by my house.  No joke she ran right in the middle of the street!

I ran after her, which probably made matters worse because she thought we were playing chase.  I stood in the middle of the road and looked at me like, "Why are you jumping up and down and screaming like a wild woman?  Don't you know you are in public and people can see you? Geez mom you are so embarrassing!"

No matter what I did Penny would not come to me.  I calmed down and called her.  I ran toward the house so she would chase me.  I yelled at her.  May came out because she heard me yelling and tired to get Penny to come back.  I tried to use a calm tone with her.  If Jack London's story To Build A Fire taught me anything the 8 times I have read it, it is to remain calm so the dog doesn't sense you are freaked out.

Finally, the best person in the world saw her and stopped their car so everyone behind him would stop too.  He gave us time to coax her back to the grass and honked at her to scare her enough to move.  She ran back inside and went to her bed because she knew she did something wrong.

I am sorry, mom!

Then everyone came over and we I ate the Cheez-Its.  As someone was leaving they forgot not to leave the gate open and off Penny went for the middle of the street again.  Cue the screaming, pleading, playing, and praying.  This time she went even further in the street and I was sure I was going to watch my little girl get hit by a car.

Somehow she finally got scared.  She saw a car almost hit her and took of running for the house.  The rest of the night she kind of whined and slept but was totally fine.

For the rest of the night I texted my mom and friends and looked for as much validation as I could that I was not the worst dog mom ever and that no one was going to call DPS on me (Dog Protective Services).

Then I was watching Once Upon a Time and the following commercial came on.  I just pretended it was about puppies and not babies.

Anyway, I am tired of the moms to human children getting all the attention and encouragement.  I think that us dog moms need to unite and make MOPS mean something else, Moms of Puppies.  I promise we can still wear the yoga pants and drink lattes as we talk about how perfect our puppies are and all the trouble they get into. So who's in? By the way I can not even begin to imagine how hard it is to have a human baby! Oh and don't forget tomorrow is the first Tales From the Classroom Link Up! In case you missed it read about it here.