Entries by Marty's Mom (MM)

The Take Home Pamcakes

Today’s meeting ob the Secret Order ob the Nocturnal Water Buffalo Pamcake Breakfast — Chapter Elebenty was a tremendous success. (Glad to see so many ob you there) The pamcakes were fluffy, the syrup was flowing, and the Poobah was looking particularly pleased with himself. Barry, howeber, had a slightly different agenda. While eberyone else […]

Reuben

I believe in magical thinking (you may have noticed this). I just want everything to be good, and everyone to be happy. All the boys had been so well for so long that I started to hope maybe they would live forever. Last week, I was reminded that reality always crashes in. My sweet little […]

Ratty Box Saloon

Sheriff Barry adjusted his tiny hat and narrowed his eyes at the swinging doors ob the Ratty Saloon. The whole town had been whispering for weeks about the outlaw known only as Black Bart — a scruffy troublemaker wiff a talent for disappearing right after ebery crime. Missing sunflower seeds. A suspicious cheese tax. Four […]

It’s Gotcha Day!

It was exactly three years ago today—on the annibersary of Marty’s Gotcha Day in 2013—that we drove down to Squeakin’ Pups Rattery finking we’d bring home three or four new boys. Instead, we came home with five! Well, technically we came home with four that day. The fabulous Fish was still too tiny and needed […]