Hi, Everyone,

Freyja died one year ago today. She was 14, and very sick and old. We had her pts at my parents house... she is buried there...

If you are new to this sort of loss, this grief -- yes, I think a year later you still feel it. But it changes with time, it gets duller.

Freyja was a wonderful dog. She was so well behaved. We got a puppy last July who is not well behaved and Hathor perplexes me. But Freyja-- if you told her "no" then she wouldn't do it. EVER. Everyone loved Freyja. In part because she was so well behaved.
She was a gentle dog, too. Very lady-like. No rough play for her. Although she did like to play chase. And she had her favorite toys: the hand (a puppet thing), the ball-sock (a ball inside a sock). She didn't like raw hides, or dog biscuits. She had terrible teeth, in part because of that. We had to brush her teeth. She didn't mind much. She liked the taste of the doggy tooth paste.

She loved the snow. LOVED it. She would go out in the snow and bury herself in it. She would use her snout as a shovel and fling snow all over with it.

She liked to be brushed, except for her butt. She did not want anyone to touch, brush, wash or look at her butt!!! This was hard for us as it was that hair that tended to get most matted....

She was so beautiful and so good. I have resigned myself to always missing her.

If I had my druthers, I'd spend the day crying and looking at photos of her. But we are moving today into a new house. So maybe ya'll can cry a little bit for me, and say a special prayer for a special dog who has been at the bridge a year now.

--Jennifer

jennifer--what a beauty!

I am glad you are so busy that you need us to cry for you! no problem! -that will be so easy today because I am still so upset over losing my buddy. I know that one day all the pain will subside. But not today. not yet. Your post helps me know however that I will feel differently than I feel right now.
good luck in your new house. I enjoyed reading about your beautiful Freyja.




Patti

Jennifer,

A year, one whole year! A long time not to have seen your pretty Freyja! It's good to hear that the pain lessens some. Right now, I don't feel like I'll ever feel good or happy again. I have had one fairly good whole day in the almost 6-week period.

I'm sure you are excited about moving into a new house. I'd like to move sometime in the not too distant future. I keep wondering how I'm going to be able to leave this last place where Hannah and I lived though. I guess you felt that too in the beginning, and that passes with more time too?

Freyja had such a wonderful life with you -- playing in the snow and all that sounds so fun for her, and she was absolutely beautiful, snow-white herself. I'll be thinking of you on this day on which you have a new beginning while cherishing the past with Freyja and still missing her in your life. I know how much you wish she were going to be with you in the new house.
Take care and good luck.
Marcia

Jennifer, what a beauty. It's hard to imagine that a loved one has been gone a year. When I lost my other pets and the year approached, it was like it had happened so long ago but then again like it was just yesterday. I received a beautiful card in the mail on Wednesday from Cuddleys vet, she wrote it out herself. I cried and cried when I read it, it was so beautiful. She wrote.( Dear Samantha, I am so sorry that you had to make such a difficult decission for Cuddly, I know how hard it is to say good-bye to such a special member of your family. Cuddly was such a loved kitty. He was very lucky to have been born into your family and loved from his very 1st day of life. I'm sure he is almost as happy in heaven as he was with you. If there is anything we can do, please let us know, Sincerly Julia, Dr. Lynn.) She is such a loving vet. My heart still aches something terriable. I'm going to plant some sunflowers up on the graves today. Yesterday I took Beethovan outside for a few minutes, he was so cold I thought the sunshine would warm him up a bit. But it hurts him to be held to long, so we came in. He's so old he gets cold easy, even when it's warm in the house. He doesn't like to lay under the covers. Right now he found a sun spot in tha back bedroom. He follows the sun around the house. My thoughts and Prayers will be with you today.

beautiful letter samanatha.

Hi Jennifer:

Freyja...............need I say..............was an ABSOLUTE BEAUTY......

I wish you guys lots of happy luck with your new home.......

Her beautiful white fur.............she looked like pure white snow..... (which I, as a New Englander, happen to love....)

But, a special prayer has been said for your beautiful Freyja, and another candle has been lit in her honor...

God Bless you always........

We'll talk soon..

Love, Denise