If you know anything about boxers, you know that they need lots and lots of attention. In fact, they are called the Peter Pan dogs...they "never grow up." I have two boxers, Holly and Bailey, and although they look as if they are grown up, they are far from it.

I have come home many days to find lots of fun surprises from my dogs. One day, shortly before Christmas, I came home to a winter wonderland. No...it wasn't actual snow, unfortunately. I had a micro bead pillow from Brookstone- one of those really soft ones that is filled with 1 trillion little white beads that move around depending on where your head is placed. It was the kind of pillow that you curl up on the couch with to take a nap or watch your favorite tv show. This particular day, though, my house was transformed when Holly and Bailey found my pillow and decided that it needed to be ripped apart and distributed all over the house. I walked in to see my house covered in little white micro beads. Let me tell you a little secret—these beads NEVER go away. After vacuuming, cleaning, shaking, and kicking I have come to the realization that nothing will ever be able to remove all of those beads.

When they were puppies, people would come to the front door and knock, and they would run to the door and slide across the foyer, eventually slamming into the door. As they got older, they continued to do this. The only problem with this is that they both weigh 70 lbs. a piece. One day, I got a call from my husband wanting to inform me of their latest destructive act. As an innocent UPS guy came to the door to deliver a package, the dogs ran across the foyer, slid into the door, and much to the surprise of the deliverer and my husband, the dogs' weight actually shattered the leaded glass out of the door. So, for two weeks (until I actually called to get it fixed) my door had two pieces of large tape across it. Yes, it definitely looked like a crime scene. Although the dogs have done their share of turning my house upside down, they are not actual criminals...just overgrown puppies that need lots of TLC.