Monday. Finally. I am Exhausted. I lost count of How Many People walked into This House on Saturday Night. Momma kept telling me All Day Long on Saturday that Tonight Is The Christmas Party Savannah And You Have To Be Especially Good. Well. I had Just Learned how to be Very Good and then I had to Figure Out quick how to be Especially Good. Momma has a way of Making My Life Very Confusing at times.
People started Walking in the Back Door when it was Raining on Saturday Night and some of them were saying they Would Have Been Better Off Coming In A Boat Because Of All That Blasted Rain and then someone else said They Would Have Walked If They Had To Because They Wouldn't Have Missed This Christmas Party For The World.
Momma put That Gate up by the Breakfast Room and of course I was Behind The Gate with my Bed and my Food and Water Bowls and Momma gave me Extra Treats even before I Figured Out how to be Especially Good. When the People started coming in the House I just Went Into My Bed and Stayed There. Momma said I must be Getting Used To Having Company because I wasn't Hiding My Face in the Corner of My Bed and I wasn't Shaking Like A Leaf.
Some of the People walked up to That Gate and said Hello Savannah You're Such A Pretty Puppy Merry Christmas To You Too Is Santa Going To Bring You Some Toys For Christmas. I sat up in my Bed and Looked Right At Those People and tried to Tell them They'd Better Not Touch That Christmas Tree when they went into the Dining Room because Momma just might Put Them behind The Gate with me and I Didn't Need any Extra Company in my Bed.
I stayed in My Bed during Momma's Party but I heard Everything that was Going On All Night Long. Miss Judy got Everybody to sing Happy Birthday to my Daddy and then they all sang Happy Birthday again to one of Momma's Tea Ladies and then somebody else Said A Prayer Thanking somebody named Lord for all the Good Food they were About To Eat and then I heard Everybody saying Don't Forget To Taste That Chicken and Who Made The Salad With The Spinach And Peas and Did You Taste Those Cheese Rolls and Don't Eat Too Much Salad Because You Won't Have Any Room Left For That Chocolate Cake Over Yonder HaHaHa. I kept Waiting for Somebody to Walk up to My Gate with a Piece Of Chicken or maybe a Cheese Roll but once Everybody started Eating they forgot about the Pretty Puppy in the Breakfast Room.
After everybody finished their Dinner they went back into the Kitchen to get their Dessert and then they were saying that The Chocolate Cake was The Best In The World because Miss Sandy baked it and the Banana Pudding was Good and Creamy and Just Right and then they Got Started on the Chocolate Covered Apples from Momma's Cousin Francine and that's when I Hid My Face in the Corner of My Bed because I Figured Out that if no one gave me a Cheese Roll or a Piece of Chicken then I didn't even have a Chance with the Chocolate Cake or the Banana Pudding or the Chocolate Covered Apples. Momma's friends say that I've got A Good Life Here but I can tell them that sometimes It's Hard to be an Especially Good Puppy in this House when there are So Many People and So Much Good Food and Everybody is having So Much Fun and I'm behind That Gate in my Bed.
Momma gave out Prizes for the Best Christmas Sweaters and I heard everybody Clapping and Cheering and then I started to Wonder why Momma didn't put My Own Pink Sweater on me Before the Party got started but then I Figured Out that I would have Won The Prize for the Best Sweater and Momma would have had to Let Me Out of the Breakfast Room and I would have had to go into the Dining Room with All Those People and I wouldn't have liked That very much so I just Kept On Being Especially Good and I Figured Out that's It's Easy to be Good when you Stay in your Bed with a Dog Biscuit or a Chew Bone.
Then Momma brought out the Big Basket of Grab Bag Gifts and Everybody had to Pick a Gift or Steal someone else's Gift and I couldn't Figure Out why Momma was letting Everybody do that because when I take one of Sweet Pea's Toys or Pillows Momma tells me that It's Not Nice To Steal What Belongs To Someone Else. I just stayed in My Bed and listened to Everybody either Tearing up Wrapping Paper or Everybody yelling Steal It! Steal It! and then I guess I went to Sleep because when I Woke Up people were Walking Out Of The Door and Saying Goodnight Savannah You Sure Are A Good Puppy I'm Going To Bring My Dog Out Here To Meet You So He Can Learn Some Good Manners.
I tried to Tell That Person that It's Easy To Learn Good Manners when your Momma puts you Behind That Gate and Tells you to be Especially Good. And my Momma knows I Don't Like Strangers and the Best Place For Me To Be is Behind That Gate when Momma fills up this House with Everybody Under The Sun Who Lives On This Road and even People I've Never Seen Before in my Whole Puppy Life.
When Everybody was gone Momma opened up That Gate and gave me a Big Giant Hug and told me what a Truly Special and Spectacular Puppy I was All Night Long and then Daddy took me For a Walk and then Momma gave me some Chicken and a Cheese Roll and some Bacon Treats but I never did get to taste Miss Sandy's Best Chocolate Cake or the Just Right Banana Pudding or Cousin Francine's Chocolate Covered Apples.
After I ate my Bacon Treats that night Momma said That Was Just The Christmas Party Savannah and Christmas Still Isn't Here Yet and I was thinking Momma Has Got To Be Kidding Me. My Momma is just going to Wear Me Out if I have to be Especially Good all Over Again when Christmas gets here.
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