Rough night! :(

So last night was our first night dog-sitting and yes .... it was horrible!!! My brother dropped his dog Piper (a.k.a. Retard) off at 7:30 last night which was nice cause Jacob was still awake and the dogs were able to relax a bit before Jacob tried to go to bed. I swear this dog doesn't lay down for longer then 5 minutes and I think she has a.d.d., she kept wanting to play with my old lazy dog and would stare her down and do that spin circle thing that all puppies do but my chubby lazy dog just stared back like she was nuts! It made me realize how small my house is, with a one year old and all his toys, our dog (a Rottweiler) and my brothers dog (a German Shepherd, Rotti, Collie cross - she's bigger then my dog). My house is already a disaster and it's only been one night, Piper sheds like crazy and really needs a bath (which I might try and do). My dog, Roxie, has nipped at Piper a couple times but for the most part they seem to get along fairly well and Piper is so good with kids. But last night Piper wanted to sleep in our bed which is only a Queen size and not big enough for a large dog, she was very persistent and even though we kicked her off four times she kept trying to get back on the bed. I even had a really fluffy dog bed on the floor beside our bed but she didn't want anything to do with that! I gave up and let her sleep on the bed but only because if she wasn't on the bed she was pacing the house and I was worried she was getting into something or peeing on our rugs? So I slept with my legs hanging off the bed and was very uncomfortable, Jacob woke up three times last night (12:30, 2:00am and 6:00am)!! At 4am my hubby woke up to a horrible smell and had to turn on the lights to see if the dog poo'd in our room it stunk so bad but there was nothing .... just gas! She is so stinky, she almost made us leave the room and then she would have had the bed to herself!! Hopefully tonight is better, I think I am on my own cause hubby has to go to the track tonight so hopefully I can handle it!? O - and this morning I think I found a wet spot on my rug!! Thankfully it is a throw rug that I can easily put in the wash but I know it wasn't my dog so I gave Piper crap and hopefully she won't be doing that again!!!

Needless to say I'm very tired today, Jacob was suppose to go to his Grandmas today so hubby could get some work done but she cancelled cause her brother is sick. It's hard for hubby to get work done with me back at work, if he looks after Jacob during the day then he will go to work after supper but that only gives him about 3 hours so just when he starts getting into a rhythm he has to stop. I think we might have to find a non-family member sitter for part time but I have no idea where to look and how do you know if they will be any good? I don't even know what the going rate is for a sitter? Maybe I will search Facebook and go through my "friend" list?