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First of all, what times dinner? You did say anyone that was there could eat. Sounds good to me!;)
Secondly, and most importantly, Whine away my dear. We love you and totally understand. We miss our little diva too!
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Originally Posted by molly muffin
Lol. This is true. Dinner is whenever anyone feels hungry after 7 pm.
This is my revolt against fast food week. I made a huge pot of goulash last week. Never made it before. So I'm on a roll. Also done some other things that are good for a crowd that eats at all times of the day. When baby is asleep after 11 when work in house is done. Whenever they show up at the door basically. I can't even remember everything I've done. Pasta dishes. Casseroles. You name it. I'm doing it.
I could use some home cooking. I'm in fast food mode right now. Or toast. Ice cream. Any and all forms of alcohol. Dinner for me was the other half of the breakfast burrito I tried to eat this morning. I did go out to lunch for chicken osaka with a coworker, and I ate... enough. My stomach's all in knots now though.
Ah see? I've whined in your thread. So please, whine away so I'm not the only one. ;)
I understand Shana. I lost weight because I couldn't eat the first couple weeks. Then I flipped the other way and was eating all the time. Comfort eating I called it. and omg, I broke out like a teenager too from All that back and forth. Last time I did that was when my dad passed away and I lived on junk food while going back and forth to the hospital. I have a permanent scar on my cheek it was so bad.
Stress is a big hormonal upsetter. Add in too much garbage food and greasy food and it's a disaster. Be ware of that. Even if you don't feel like it force some fruit and veggies in there. Don't do what I did.
Okay. I'll make myself a protein shake in the AM. Have frozen bananas and blueberries. Was going to roast potatoes tonight but, well, I didn't expect to bring him home until tomorrow.
The ice cream is caramel apple pie gelato. It has pieces of apple in it. That counts, right? :p
Oh Sharlene, I'm very glad to hear that at least you and Daniel are able to make time for the salsa lessons! It seems like a lifetime ago that we got to read about your dance parties and fancy office bashes. I remember back when we even got to outfit you like a cowgirl, right? :p
Those seem like the good old days in so many ways :o. Our family here had not yet suffered as many losses :(, and our hearts were lighter. It was such fun planning for your parties right alongside you! I even became a "virtual dancer" even though in real life I can't dance a single step. Happy days will surely come again even though it will always be different now. But let's all have a good time together at your gala, OK? We surely deserve a smile and an evening of release! And make sure to pass Daniel around to all us gals who lack a dancing partner, OK?...;)
Oh gosh yes the apple counts. Some things are just good and that sounds relish Shana. Hmm wonder if they have that here.
Oh my Marianne. Those where awesome happy times. Yep we did the cowgirl party. This weekend is a gala sit down dinner and silent auction, live auction charity event. It will be fun too I'm sure.
We did go out on Halloween weekend dressed up, me as a pirate and hubby as David S. Pumpkin. Tom hanks. SNL character. Then on Halloween da we dressed for office party. Me as Peggy sue with poodle skirt and Daniel again as Pumpkin guy. That was our first festive outing sine sept 12.
We do all these things still. Daniel LOVES to dance and would happily partner everyone. It's actually better to be out and doing than home I think.
Happy memories we have had here. Very happy
So glad to hear you and Daniel were able to not only go out but enjoy yourselves again!
Sharlene, maybe all this mess has been there all along under the radar, and Molly was there - easy to love and give you unconditional love. I'm so sorry you're having to deal with all this and it has come on the heels of losing your furry soul mate. I don't have any advice, except for you to keep coming back and accepting our hugs.
Hi Sharlene,
I am so sorry for you loss. I was away for a while, when I logged back in to read about all the fur babies out there that are on the same boat as my Lola, I was in tears when I found out about Molly's passing.
Please be strong, I know it will take time but my thoughts are with you.
(((((((Hugs))))))))
Nadia and Lola
Thank you Nadia.
I hope that Lola is doing well.
Thanks gang. I think it was a bad, grumpy day the other day as i haven't felt nearly as angry and grumpy since then.
I'm sure there are a lot of things that have been there and can come to the forefront at any given moment. I also think that there are just times, as I said on Catherines thread that you have enough and need to just back away from people, situations and give yourself the gift of space. I'm trying to practice doing that. :) :)
Hi Sharlene-
I was just catching up on your thread. What a crazy household you are running! MIL sounds like a "real kick." The one real benefit from our having lost all our parents so early in life is that we got out from under those relationship tensions. I still wish I could see all of them, though.
Bailey has a bump on her rump. We are going tomorrow to discuss getting it removed. I think it's non-threatening, but it seems to get irritated easily. Grooming is the usual culprit. It seems to have settled down lately, some, and this little operation is horribly expensive, natch, so we may let it go for now. It's at a place she cannot reach and I do not think it bothers her.
It's a bright sunny day down here in Delaware and a whopping 63 degrees. I hope you at least have sunshine to help your spirits where you are.
Love,
Sus
Yes it's all very crazy around here Susan, that's for sure.
I try to get online but it's hard most days. Work, cooking, cleaning, and a multitude of other things. Last time I got a good stretch going, answering posts and bham, we have to leave right now! Hurry up, lets go. Off to I don't even remember where for what. But that's about how it goes most days.
People are in and out, meals are sometimes twice or three times a night with the various schedules. I've been going into the office more just to have some down time. I can't even imagine how much more hectic its going to get in December when my MIL arrives.
We are currently trying to get her phone setup, which is no small feat let me tell you with a non techno and not as easy it turns out as setting up her computer was. Of course, my husband actually flew out there and did a lot of the set up in person for that.
I have to make room in my basement for even more furniture to be stored. She swears its only one thing coming now and the rest will come once she has "her" place. We'll see. There is barely room to walk down there now it's so full.
As you know there are good days and bad days when it comes to missing molly. Some days it doesn't seem to affect me, others I stop for some reason and think 'oh molly, I wish you where here for this'. That's the worst times and I think we all who have lost a beloved pet go through that experience. I know it gets better. I know it occurs less often but when it does, out of the blue usually it's tough.
We are having lovely weather this week, but next week they say we are going to get cold and will experience our first snow flurries. YUCK.
Even that makes me think of the mornings I'd get up early to shovel a path for the muffin, so she could get out to do her thing and how now I won't be doing that and even though I'd grumble at the time about teaching Her how to use that shovel, I sure do think it's something I'll miss now. Just one more thing in the taking care of her repertoire that is no more.
When do you head for Florida?
Ryan and Ellen will be here until the 27th. It will depend on how much undecorating remains to be done. We will need to put Christmas away and then we are free to go. I'm anxious to go because a) it's 80 degrees there :) and b)we have to come back early this year to go to a wedding in PA.:(Quote:
Originally Posted by molly muffin
It sounds like you are pretty well tuned into knowing you need to cut yourself some slack and get some "free" time for you. I so clearly remember it was the all-of-a-suddens about losing Palmer that really got to me. I'd be fine and out of nowhere a memory pops or an image pops up or I see a picture of Palmer. It does get better but I can remember how incredible the pain was and how long it went on.....less frequently, but still....
Hugs,
Susan
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of my k9cushings family.
It's tough not having molly this year for Christmas and of course she came to us about a month before Christmas so it was always a special time for her and us as a family.
We've been away to British Columbia vising our other daughter and grandson. It was good to get away for a bit, our youngest daughter and the baby went with us. Now we are back and trying to catch up with everything we need to do before tomorrow!!!! EEEEK! Time flies.
I miss molly and think I always will. For me, there was only one diva. People see me and ask where I've been as they don't see me outside as much or at all. She was the social butterfly of the neighborhood I think, not me.
But in the grand perspective, we are good, I am good. Have my health, my family and friends, including my k9cushings family and those are all good things. The most important really.
Dear Sharlene
Wishing you and your family a blessed Christmas. Our little diva ,Molly is looking down on you with love. She will always be a part of you.
Love Sonja and Apollo the warrior
Hi Sharlene: I don't come around here much anymore but was sorry to see that your Molly had passed. xo Judi
8 months today muffin. I miss you so much.
You are still my bright star in the night and when I'm feeling lonely and missing you so very much, it is where I look to for comfort. I love you muffin, I always will.
Eight months...a lifetime, Sharlene. Hugging you as much as I can from Long Island.
I'm sure the love she holds for you and Daniel brighten her glow immeasurably.
(((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))
Tons of loving hugs being sent your way, my dear friend.
Dear Sharlene ,the lose is always there. The love never dies. Understand only to well. When life throws us curves our fur babies where always there to catch us- with a look, a paw, a lick, unconditional love.
Love Sonja and Apollo
The 12th of every month will be a sad day for both of us Sharlene. I didn't realize. I looked back on your thread and saw the time. 4:30. Just like Whisk. Hope they're together...and she's bossing him around!
Yes, we miss her too. Our little diva on her rug under the Christmas tree and her window to the world, are among my fondest memories.
I sure that our little Muffin is making sure that her star remains the brightest, just for you and Daniel. XXXOOO
Kathy
Those are some of my fondest memories too Kathy.
Annie, yes I really think that molly's 8 month passing hit me hard that day due to Whiskeys passing on the same time and month date.
We'll be emotional messes together and that's okay. If molly and whiskey found each other I can say with some assurance that she is being a diva to him. Her best doggie buddies, where 2 golden retreivers Trophy and Louie, both now gone but she never forgot what house they lived in or their people. She loved golden retrievers.
She had other doggie friends and loved them but she didn't take to new dogies all that easily. Goldens just have a way of worming their way into hearts of both dogs and people.
I was thinking of you today, Sharlene, on this one year anniversary. I know how hard this one is. Many, many hugs to you and Daniel.
Me too, Sharlene. Soooooooo many special memories of our Diva :o.
And as Joan says, sending so many hugs northward to you and Daniel.
Always in loving memory ~
I miss her. I miss them all! :o
Big hugs,
Kathy
Me too Sharlene, add my hugs in with the others. Thinking of you and Miss Molly on this difficult anniversary. xo
I was thinking of you yesterday as well. Sending more hugs your way.
Shana
Thanks all of you. It wasn't an easy day and I don't know if Daniel wasn't thinking or what, but he put her steps to the window seat out to the curb (someone picked it up and took it) and I just bawled.
Then I didn't see her sheepskin rug on the floor and went crazy looking for it, as it is Always there. I don't move it. Found it finally and put it back.
I don't like that she is gone, I don't like that her things are being moved and removed, I don't like that I can still get all weepy over it, drat, nothing about it is acceptable.
I sure do appreciate all of you. Each of you having been through this yourselves. Yesterday was not so great, but I know that tomorrow will be better.
HUGS my friends
OMG! I would've killed Victor if he had done that. Everyone knows not to touch or move Lena's things, even the dogs... :). I need to see them, even if they make me cry. She's gone, but they don't have to be.
Oh Sharlene.. I am glad you got through another milestone as hard as it is. I for some reason had my ex the day I brought Keesh's ashes home, (same day as cremation) take everything other then his tags out of my house. I couldn't bear at all to see anything. I was thinking about you and hoping you were coping ok. Coming up 3 years for me and I still am a bit of a mess at times. Man don't they burrow into our hearts and leave the biggest hole. You keep busy which is good and honouring the little diva will continue. Cheers my friend. Thank you too for all the great work you do on here. I know so many appreciate you, I especially for one.
Thanks Judi. Yes staying busy helps a lot and of course this week is especially busy so that is good.
Joan, I don't know what he was thinking.
Dear Sharlene,
These times we mark after our babies have gone are so very tough, especially the first time they come around. Even those happy times like birthdays and gotcha days are hard to face at first. Sometimes a simple unremarkable Thursday is hard to deal with....even three years later. So we cry, sometimes we scream, and we get thru to the next, moderately better moment. And tho time itself does not heal it does allow enough of those better moments to accumulate to give us a space from which to start the healing process. Meanwhile we live our lives in a way that honors always that love we shared, that love like no other. I know your sweet girl is so very proud of her mom (and dad even tho he acted like an idiot :rolleyes: ).
Molly will always be safe with us, always remembered and honored, always cherished.
Hugs,
Leslie
((((Sending tons of loving hugs))))