I Like Thursday # 428 grateful for you

 

can it be I survived heartbreak a whole week, and it's time to share my gratitude and likes? 

 this is a quilt I made a couple years ago... I am happy I have it to put up this Thanksgiving 

I've been stumbling around not really here because here is a sad place mostly. I'm still in shock that my beautiful boy is gone, and life is just going on around me. 

After pinching the spent blossoms off, my mums had a new bloom but I've not been able to stand on the porch to see them much. 

 We held a ceremony for Milo on Sunday, at the one week point since we got back his ashes. All we have now is a pawprint impression, some of his incredibly soft curls of hair, his beloved chicken, his sweater all gathered together in the house in his crate that he loved too. 

 I cannot express how much your comments, emails, cards and phone calls have meant to me.

 I appreciate all of you so much. 

This little quote says so much too...

I received this beautiful portrait of Milo made by Ingrid

and this one by Terry from Brian's home

a beautiful comment by John Bellum led me to his lovely blog and this post... I had to copy the poem to keep by me through this. "now that I am old" gives me a kind of meaning for my own life. Please go read this...

http://ihavethreecats.blogspot.com/2024/11/now-i-am-old.html

Julie at her blog: https://jellyjules.com/  told the story of her beloved Keeshound Mulder and reading her words of feelings and what happened, soothed my guilt, let me know she truly understands, read the posts on "dogs" They did catch the cancer early and went through long treatments and it came back a few months later anyway. Love you Julie. Now I also love Mulder. 

Mary C. shared the current issues with her beloved dog, and what we all live with as we age and I was connected again, less lonely. 

Diane in Texas has been a friend who shared  tears and grief with me by phone and I am so grateful. 

All of you have shared my grief and I am grateful and re read the comments often, so if you wonder if your comments are meaningful, they are. I'm sorry I can't quote all of you right now but you are loved. 

we must go in and out this door for two person walks. Life seems so empty yet it goes on with it's demands. It's all about finding meaning in the day. I know grief has a lifecycle, and I go up and down the stages. 

Please understand I am still eating though nothing tastes good, still reading though I forget the words and have to re- read and re-re-read them. I watch TV and can't focus, sew because a person must do something. I wonder if it's okay to be so honest here but why stop now? 

I like the Macy's Thanksgiving parade on TV... after all.

I promise to return with likes, when I can feel them again. 

Although there is no Thanksgiving here this year, there is  some bit of hope because it truly is better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all. 

This video made me smile out loud... I love puppies

please visit these folks to see their likes this week

the knitty quilter

https://tentoesinthewater.blogspot.com/

 http://3poodlesandanana.blogspot.com/

https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/  

http://littlepenguinquilts

princess bubbles creates   

https://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/

 craftscaviescontras   

https://knittingquilter.blogspot.com/

grammajudyb.blogspot.com

https://lavenderdreamstoo.blogspot.com/

 

taking a break:

http://imworkingonaproject.blogspot.com/

https://www.homesewnbyus.com/

https://scrapatches.blogspot.com/ 

https://brianshomeblog.com/  

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/   

http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com

https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/