Holidays can be hard...

[labblab]

Well, our holiday season is truly coming to an end now. Thanks so much to all who stopped by to support one another here this year. This is what our family does best -- we watch out for one another both in times of joy and sorrow. I think that is one of the very best holiday gifts that can ever be given.

May 2015 bring peace and comfort to all who are suffering, and also special -- perhaps even unexpected -- moments of hope and joy to us all!

Best wishes,
Marianne

[molly muffin]

Happy new year everyone. Peace and joy to all.

Hugs

[Spiceysmum]

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope that 2015 is filled with health and happiness for us all.
Love, Linda x

[addy]

Happy New Year Everyone!!!!!!

I know we will all find joy and special moments no matter what life throws at us.

Thank you all for being well-----you

WELCOME 2015!!!!!!

[spdd]

Happy New Year to all of you too.... please read my thread.

[Spencersmom]

Happy New Year everyone!
I hope you all are blessed in the coming year! This past year was tough for so many, I pray 2015 is much better for everyone!

{{hugs}}

[Shelby01]

This is so beautiful - thank you. I just lost my Wrangell in November to lymph node cancer. It has been unbearable. In addition, I just discovered my girl Shelby has cushings, which lead me to this site.

[labblab]

Oh, you are so welcome. And welcome to our forum and to our family! I am so sorry about your loss of Wrangell, and also sorry to hear that you are now dealing with issues with Shelby. But we are here to support you as much as we can, in all ways. If it would be a comfort to you, please do feel free to open a thread in honor of Wrangell here on our "In Loving Memory" forum. We have many beloved honorary Cushpups who can be found here.

Also, we'll be anxious to see you start a thread for Shelby on our main "Questions and Discussion" forum. I can't wait to meet her!

And I want to mention to everybody that of course there are far more holidays in the year besides those we have just now celebrated. And some that are especially poignant when it comes to our furbabies, like Mother's Day and Father's Day. So please, anybody and everybody, do feel free to continue posting to this thread at any time throughout the year. The door is always open!

Marianne

[labblab]

How is it possible that another year has flown by? But here we are, poised to enter another holiday season. So once again, the door to our "Holiday House" here swings wide open. Just as I wrote last year, all will be welcome, and all our loved ones will be honored. Always.

OK kids, another November is here and another holiday season approaches. Wowsa, how can the days fly by? On the other hand, how can the hardest days seem to drag on forever...

Anyway, I thought I'd bump up this thread once again. Just in case anybody wants to drop by to share some smiles, tears, thoughts, memories, dreams, wishes, hopes and sorrows. I know for me, the holidays are made up of all those things, including some of my tenderest feelings and greatest longings for loved ones who are physically absent.

Anybody who knows me here knows I like to yak! It brings me comfort to talk and to write. I surely understand it is not the same for everybody. But for anyone else who also finds solace in adding a note here or sharing a group hug, please know you are welcome no matter what is on your mind or in your heart. Good or bad, happy or sad. This is a place we can come all through the holidays, knowing our K9C family understands things that perhaps our other friends and family do not. Like how much it matters that things are forever changed by the absence of a sweet warm body and a dear face at the table, at the party, in the kitchen, at the fireplace, at the window, at the door, by the tree, in your lap, beside your chair, just being loved.

Starting things off with a giant bear hug from me, in honor of my Barkis and the joy he always brought us at the holidays. He was a December baby, as was my dad. Both will always be so special to me in the heart of my holiday memories.
Marianne

[Wally P's Mom]

Hello All:

It's been exactly one month since I last held my Fritz in my arms. Time seemed just to slow down but really flew by. As much as I don't want to do the Ho Ho Ho thing this year. It seems that it is something that has filled my time.

I have shopped, baked, written cards and letters, and decorated 4 trees. The first and last tree was the hardest. It was hard to start with the first and the last had all the ornaments to commerate each year we had with our pups. Every year we bought an ornament from Petco to celebrate our lives with them. Then came the Angel daschund ornaments. Needless to say tears were shed when I found the first years ornament and the Angel ornaments.

Fritz loved Christmas and Santa dog. He loved the tree going up and hated it coming down. He loved the cookies baking and the prime rib on Christmas Day. Somehow, he knew the meaning of Christmas and always gave us the best gift, his love.

Tonight, we are going to a hospice event to remember my dad. We submitted a picture of him on Santa's lap holding a toy rifle when he was a little boy. So PC incorrect. As they flash his picture and read his name, we will place an ornament on the hospice tree. It's been 11 months since he has passed and last Thanksgiving was the first and last of all the lasts. He passed away less than a month later.

Yes, this Christmas will be difficult and I have been told to do as much and as little as possible. Busy works and is working. I miss my Fritz and never realized how hard things would be after my dad passed.

I am trying to forget 2015 and move forward to 2016.

Can we just skip December?

Marge