That's so nice that you got to hold her in your dreams. I wish Lena would come to me in mine....it's been so long. Sometimes when I'm petting Sibbie I close my eyes and pretend that she's Lee. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't...

The holidays are coming up and they are so hard for me. Lena was a big part of all of them and she just loved them, from Halloween, where she would wear her Boo tee shirt and sit on the stoop with me handing out candy and getting her picture taken with all the kids, through Christmas, where she would take up her spot in the kitchen while I made shortbreads, giving her pieces of the dough as each batch was ready to go in the molds. And how she loved it when it was present time!! Opening up hers, and everyone else's if she got the chance, then making a nest of all the shreds of wrapping paper. Oh how I miss her...