The Grandplants?

Have you ever seen that bumper sticker that says "I love my granddog"? Or been told "My son and his wife just got a dog.. I'm a Grandpa!" Well not but a few years ago, we got the very news. My sister-in-law and soon to be brother-in-law found a puppy, Belle. Oh she was a cute little thing! We didn't think much of it until.. We noticed the word "granddog" oh no. Oh no oh no! There is a fine line between the people who jokingly call their pets kids or grand kids and those who actually treat their four legged friends as humans. I quickly began to think "this dog is going to be treated the same as my children!" And oh I did not want that. I suppose I thought too quickly because I soon realized it wasn't that way at all. This pup was not really being treated like a granddog (except kisses on the mouth-yuck!). So now that we have truly established that this dog is just a pet and won't be treated quite the same as a human baby it quickly became fun! Presents "from" Belle. A Christmas card "from" Belle with reindeer antlers on her head. Now we're feeling a little left out because we don't have any pets! One thing we did have a lot of were plants. Indoor and outdoor, we had quite a collection of potted plants! We thought "You know, if a dog can be a grand "child" why can't our plants? They're living too! And so it had begun. They had Belle, and we had the plants. And of course they had to have names! We decided on names starting with 'd'. Danny, Dafney etc. And then it happened... we did something so out of the blue, so original, it had everyone guessing. If Belle could make a "Happy holidays" card, why couldn't we? Well, we certainly had enough equipment in our apartment to make this happen. White blanket for bankground? Check. Camera? Check. Gather all the plants and wear matching flannels? Check!

Happy Holidays! Hope they were great!