Life is funny......

Howdy!!  I hope that you are having a wonderful weekend and enjoying yourself.  Prayers are going out to friends and family that are having to deal with those terrible storms in the states...stay safe.

Each day I am feeling a little better and the emotions are starting to settle down some.  I will never forget our sweet little Bandit and he will forever be in our hearts.  We have him home now and are slowly readjusting to how life is now.  It doesn't seem the same, not will it ever but funny how things happen in life and we do learn to change things around, settle in to what is all around us.

Wednesday our sweet little boy was able to come home.  My hubby went down and picked him up, put him so sweetly in my craft room not disturbing a thing and left it exactly the way that Carrie (the owner of the crematory location) gave it to him.  Larry put a few extra touches on it which when I saw it, I totally broke down and just bawled.  I brought it all out of the boxes and envelops and put it neatly on the table.

Larry added this sweet balloon, red rose and adoreable card.

 Our precious boy lays in this beautiful dark cherry box and Carrie does these wonderful memorial paw prints and she so sweetly gave us a tuff of his fur.

 The card was very specially chosen to have this be directly from Bandit and Larry said this is exactly how he loved his Momma.  Can you see why I was crying???

In doing so and going through the mourning process, I wanted to work on more projects to honor our oldest sweet boy.  I love the paw print and started thinking, what if it accidently gets broken?  Then what?  So I started to think how I could preserve his precious paw imprint.  Being crafty I thought I have to be able to come up with somethings....so after doing a lot of thinking, I decided to get some of my baking clay, gently press it into the imprint after putting some plastic wrap gently over it and I came up with a reverse paw prints.  I ended up doing 8 of them actually, 4 in white and 4 in brown so now I have plenty "just in case".  Yes this is his little paw paws...cute huh :D

Then I also wanted to do something to be able to hang some of his pictures up and to be able to change things around so this is what I came up with also.  See, I am feeling better as I didn't even cry when doing these :)

So we continue to move forward with life, missing him daily but know he's in a better place, not in any pain and watching over us.  We now focus and love our other two even more making sure they are well loved and taken care of.

Yes we all go through changes in life and even though at times it is difficult, we always make it through and learn to move onward.  Never forgetting, loving more and always cherishing things closely in our hearts.

Hope you have a wonderful rest of the weekend and happy crafting!!

Hugs,

Laura

Ever ponder why???

Hi there.  I know I've been pretty much MIA lately and I surrender and say I've had enough.  As for those of you who have followed me for awhile, I've had a few challenges in life that have hit and I've landed back on my feet.  I thought things were going better and things started to hit again in December.

The kids Dad got word that he had to have a Quadruple Bypass, then a few weeks later I got pneumonia and our oldest dog was diagnosed with bronchial disease and an enlarged heart.  Well we made it through all of this and things seemed to be getting a little better and then last week we had to take our oldest dog, Bandit back into the vet for a recheck and through extensive bloodwork we found out that he was a sick boy.  He was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetis and his pancreais and liver enzymes were really high so we had to get him into the hospital to get that under control.  I dropped him off around 3:30 pm on the 21st and received a call at midnight that my precious baby boy had passed over the rainbow bridge as his heart had stopped.  At that point of time my heart broke.  Have you ever pondered why and what if???  Well let me tell you we sure have.

Here our precious Bandit when we got him back in 2002.  He was the cutest little guy and always to sweet.

Throughout all the 10 years we were blessed to have him, he had a personality like no other.  We called him our pretty poser and he knew he was a very cute boy lol. 

There are so many things that we will cherish and remember with him.  We are in our grieving and healing process and are focusing on our other 2 precious boys.  One day at a time. They are so much a part of our families and losing them hurts.  The one peaceful thing I have is that he was already asleep when all this happened as they were adding a line to administer his meds and blood draws so he went very peaceful.  We will be bringing him back home to us by Wednesday and although it won't be the same, our hearts can begin this healing process.  One of my ways I am coping?  Yup, crafting!

Here our Mr. B sits high on our mantel with the angel of healing right next to him.

 I bought him tulips because in the spring when they bloom, he loved to go over and smell them.  Yes I told you he was uniquie.  If you can tell, I did up his name with wood blocks on the vase.

I am working on more but wanted to share a few things.  I realize how much my crafting and all my blog friends are to me on a daily basis and I love you all.  This pain too will become less and we will continue on.  In the meantime, my mending will continue and will be focusing on more projects so stay tuned.

Have a wonderful rest of the weekend and happy crafting!!

xo ~ Laura