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The pain I went through this afternoon is still too new. I'll be back though because there is too much good about you to not say anything. Thank you Robin for this gift - our girl will always be special. ((hugs)) Sophee-know I didn't do this easily-renal failure is fatal and you were not going to get better. You were so sick and you wouldn't eat. Your eyes had lost the beautiful glow you always had. You had dropped so much weight, I couldn't even make you eat by hand feeding you. I know you knew it was time. You were weak and exhausted and you just plain didn't look like you enjoyed life anymore. I stayed with you to help you over. I hope and pray you know how difficult that was for me and you know how much I love you baby. I always will. I will get your ashes back and keep them until Sammee, your litter mate, comes to join you.Then I will join you together and probably keep you both until I go, then we can all be together. I will miss you next to me tonight and always.I love you baby. Mommy 05/06/08-How was your first day at RB sweetheart? I hope everyone came to meet you and you and Callie are together waiting for me. I had to take today off also only today was no pay. But how could I go to work when I cry so much still. I know it will get better, the pain will start to fade but my memories of you will never fade. Sophee I remember the day Mommy Robin and I picked you and Sammee out. The guy we got you from was such a looser. I'm glad we saved you. I picked Sammee because he was such a pretty brindle color and Mommy Robin picked you because you were so special even as a puppy. You were so timid and so shy Mommy Robin just knew if she didn't pick you, you may not have had such a loving home and life.You bonded early with your Mommy Robin and you loved her more than anyone. We were remembering yesterday when we had no a/c and we took you and Sammee to the motel and you were lost at the bottom of the bed, you had crawled down and gotten between the covers and we couldn't find you. You have always, always loved to be under the covers. You became my snugglebutt when Mommy Robin got married. I will forever miss your nudging the covers and crawling under to snuggle next to me. I will forever miss the way you so loved belly rubs that you would grab our hands with your boney paws. You were always the one to stay up with me on my insomnia nights and loved to get biscuits before bed. The wind and the storms were never your friend. I hop there is no wind or storms to scare you where you are. I hope you are happy and playing until I come for you and I will come for you baby, I promise. I came home today from getting gas so I could return to work tomorrow and you were not there to greet me as I came through the door. It made me so sad. I woke up sad because I miss you at night. I just miss you in my life Sophee Jean. Thank you for being the loving, beautiful dog that you were. Your spirit will love on in both my and Mommy Robin's life baby. (((hugs and kisses))) 05/18/08 Hi sweetheart. The days are getting easier, the nights not so much. Sam just does not like to sleep on the bed, he puts up with me if I'm having a tearful night but he gets down as soon as he thinks I am asleep. Dayzee is just Dayzee-sweet, playful and full of energy. But you know that. I brought you home on Tuesday. The vet's office called and told me your cremains were in. I was a bit afraid to pick them up and then very weird about opening them. But it was okay, I sort of felt like you were home and it made me feel better. You're the first animal I've had that I've done that with. I think it didn't occur to me with the others. You, I so was not ready for you to go sweetheart.I wish to God I would have known you were so sick. You doctor assures me the end result would have been the same no matter what, kidney disease is not cureable. I've been searching for answers, was it something I fed you that caused the kidney disease? Something I didn't feed you? How could you have gotten that - you were only 9 years old. That's young OMG that's young :( That is just way too dam young Sophee. Anyway I put the cube the ashes came in into a pretty cedar lined box I got when I was in high school. The cube that contains your ashes just fits in there. I also have the hair I had them cut from your beautiful neck and your collar in there. I bought a special picture frame and when it comes I will have the picture of you in the yard put in the frame and place it on top of the box. I'll be back on your birthday baby. I hope you are playing with everyone and you aren't shy. I pray there is no wind to make you nervous and no storms to upset you. Love you my Sophee Jean xoxoxoxoxo 06/01/08-Hi sweetheart. Wow-it just doesn't get easier. I miss you just as much today as I did almost a month ago when I had to let you go. Gads Sophee, why you-why did you have to go so soon? I think I'd do almost anything to have you back again baby girl.I got the frame for your picture.I have it here beside me.I doubt I'll ever let you go.Your brother still goes out and looks for you. I'm afraid he want to join you.I keep telling him he can't yet.I need to get to bed but I wanted to visit you.Love you sweet baby. 07/05/08-Hey baby girl.I wanted to come visit with you yesterday but just couldn't bring myself to do so.4th of July and New Year's Eve will always remind me of you Sophee Jean.How could they not with your being so afraid of the fire works. I never went anywhere on those two holidays because I wanted you to know I was here for you even though you huddled yourself in the bathtub :( It always bothered me to see you in there because there was nothing you would let me do for you. You got so wrapped up in fear. I went to Mommy Robin's yesterday and had a good time. We were remembering you baby girl. You are missed and will live on in our hearts forever. It's been two months today and OMG I miss you. My heart weeps for you.I know you are in a better place, wait for me baby girl.I'll come for you-I promise.I love you Sophee Jean-sad mommy. 07/29/08-My loving Sophee. There are times when I feel so lost without you,even though I still have your littermate and life partner Sammee and your new playmate Dayzee. Today is one of those days. I've been crying because I miss you so very much much of tonight. You are,by far,the hardest baby to get over.I will always have dogs,I can't live without a baby who needs me so I know I will face the pain time and time again,until the day I get to rejoyce and join you all at the bridge. I pray to God that He is taking good care of you.I know your kidneys are healed and you are not in any pain now baby.It's me who is in pain now.And it's getting better most days.Just not today.Oh God Sophee I miss you so very very much.Love you baby..mommy 10/13/08-Hi sweetheart.Oh baby,the pain is still so bad at times.There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about you and miss you with all my heart and soul baby girl.When the wind blows I think of you and hope there is no wind to scare you,when it rains I think of and pray there is no rain to scare you.And when the sun is shining and warm I can almost see you laying in the yard sunning yourself.At night I feel the emptiness of the space beside me where you would lay under the covers with me.It was very windy here yesterday and your brother I think was worried about you.I try to tell him you are safe and okay.I don't want him to come join you so soon sweetheart.Mommy Robin came up finally last weekend.You know she couldn't bear coming up without you being here,so she didn't come up.I think she put off mourning for you and last weekend she finally faced the fact that you are gone.You put your paw prints on our hearts,never to be forgotten.Be safe baby girl until mommy can come for you I love you and miss you so very much Sophee-girl.Kisses through my tears..mommy 12/21/08-Hi baby girl.How are you?I still miss you so much baby.The pain is not quite as bad but on the days that it is,it's very bad if that makes sense.I look at your picture and long to have you back with me.I will try to make it back Christmas night sweetheart to wish you a happy Christmas.((((hugs)))xoxoxox 01/03/09-Oh Sophee Jean-I am so very sorry I couldn't come in on Christmas.I miss you and your silly Sophee-girl antics so very much.Lucius spent Christmas and New Years with me.He brought his two baby girls-16 year old Sassy and 4 year old Daisy.They are so cute and get along will with Dayzee and Sammee.Sammee has to play the big old boy to the girls.It's kind of funny for Sam you know.Lucius was remembering how afraid you were of firecrackers when they went off at midnight.I know you are not scared anymore,and the wind is comforting and not terrifying to you now baby.When I feel a gentle breeze upon my face,I pray it is you.I pray you had a wonderful Christmas with our Lord Jesus and that you are playing and loving it while you wait for me.I'll come for you baby,if it's at all possible,I will come for you again.Happy New Year Sophee-peace be with you.KNOW with everything you are,that everything I am misses you sweet baby girl.(((Huggzzz)))xoxoxo 03/23/09-Hi Sophee Jean.I hope you are doing well and that you and Callie are behaving:)I am going to put a few pictures of Callie here.I can not afford to keep both sites anymore.I will always keep yours and when your brother joins you,it will be for him also.Sam is doing well.He still goes and looks for you but doesn't spend hours in the back looking for you.He has taken your place in the sun now.He loves it.I think it reminds him of when the 2 of you used to lay in the sun in the yard. I love you so Sophee.I'll never stop missing you and I think of you at least several times a day. Love you baby girl.xoxoxoMommy 04/02/09-Hi girls.You are together now. Callie sweetheart,because I combined you here with Sophee,I have copied the first entry from your special page:I will miss my baby girl so much.She was always such a brat.She terrorized any dog I ever had. With just'the look'she could get them to leave a room.She was always a very vocal kitty also. When she was younger(she was 16 when she went to Rainbow Bridge)she loved it when I would change the bed.Of course it took me lots longer to change when she was around because she had to get up there and chase the sheets as I put them on the bed.She never liked to be cuddled.She didn't mind being held but it was on her terms always.She liked to be the little princess.She did love being petted though.Loved to have her little head scratched. One of her favorite places was the windowsill in the morning when the sun came through.She loved to lay in the sunshine and if she got out of the house,she would roll and roll and roll on the warm concrete or the warm rocks. The last 5-6 months she would get up on my bed during the night,walk up my body and out that little white paw would tap tap tap me on the chin.Should I dare not to acknowledge her,she would do it again, this time with a little bit of claw showing!All she wanted was for me to wake up and pet her for awhile. These past few months when she had been sick,she got so affectionate.She would lay on me while I was watching television,something she would never do when she was healthy. Callie my baby,I hope you know how hard yesterday was for me. loved you so very much. ou're the only cat I've ever had and I don't think I will have another one for no one could be you.I cannot seem to stop crying and I keep expecting you to come walking out of the other room with that slow stroll across the kitchen floor.Such an attitude you had :)I hated seeing you sick, hated more that nothing could be done to help you.Each day I watched you grow weaker and struggle more to breathe. My struggle was when is the 'right' time.I learned yesterday there never would have been a 'right' time. I am so sorry my kitty.You fought it all the way,you were always a scrappy little thing and I believe you would have fought no matter when.Words cannot describe how much I will miss you. Sophee, when Sam joins you,he will be here also.This way you can all be together as you were here. And if it's okay with you both,any other babies I have will be here with you This way I can keep you here for a very long time, all together.I know you are all together waiting for me anyway so this must made more sense.Know that I love you both and I still miss you so very much.It does get easier,but I still miss you both so much. Love you sweeties...xoxoxoxox mommy. 04/29/09-Hi my sweethearts.Callie baby-nine days,2 years ago I lost you to cancer(4/20/09)-it seems so much longer.I miss your purring, your bratty ways,all of you.I know you are well and happy where you are and I hope you are staying with Sophee.I miss you baby doll.I just renewed this site for another year.I can't let either of you go. Sophee-soon(6 more days)it will be a year since I had to let you go.There still isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of you.I will come on the 5th and light a candle for you sweetie. Mommy misses you both.Hugs and love Mom 06/20/09-Hi sweethearts.I was going through some guest books tonight and had to come by and say hello.I miss you both very much but I think you know that.I almost got another dog,another rescue sweetheart but I decided not yet.Making a trip to Colorado end of Sept.and am taking Sam and Dayzee with me.Three dogs would be too much so I'll hold off until then.Sophee, Sammee is lounging in the back in the sun like you used to do.Do you talk to him while he is out there?I know he still misses you but he isn't grieving like he used to. Oh baby girl, why oh why did God take you to be with him so soon? I always thought Sam would go first.*sigh* We play 'light' now and then.It's not the same without your cute little face playing with goofy Sam.Dayzee looks at him like he's nuts LOL but you always went along with the game.Are you taking care of Callie?I've not gotten another kittie.I have Aly here every other Friday and she's allergic to cats so they are out for now anyway.Besides, could there ever be another Callie?I don't think so.Take care of each other my sweethearts. Remember how much I love and miss you both.xoxoxoxo Mommy 09/13/09-Hi mommy's babies.I needed to come by and say hello to you both. I hope you are staying out of trouble and you are being good! Due to lack of funds, the Colorado trip did not materialize. We are staying home. We're having to take a cut in pay this year and I just do not have it. Someday. Sophee, Sam is doing well. I know he misses you but he's getting better. He is not eating like he used to but he still sleeps really well :) I promise when his time comes, I will try to make it as painless and as easy on him as I can - and I know you both will be there to greet him. I must get to bed now my sweethearts. Mom's love to you both. xoxoxoxoxox soon sweeties - soon. 12/13/09-Hi sweeties. Mommy still misses you both very, very much although it is a bit easier. Sophee, Sammee is doing well. He tries so hard to play with Dayzee but he's so big and he is so used to the way you both would play that he's a bit rough with her and she just lays down! She doesn't know what to do. I still just have Dayzee and Sammee. No new animals yet although I do keep my eyes open. I'll know when the right one is meant to be with us. Sophee, I miss you more than I ever thought possible. Callie, you were the best kitty ever. Love you both xoxoxoxox Mommy 03/13/10-Hi Sophee and Callie. I know it has been awhile since I have been here. I've been so busy but not a day goes by that I don't think about you both. I think Sammee may be joining you within the next few months :( They feel he has cancer-He's in no pain that we know of. He is losing weight though. I know you will be so happy to have your litter-mate and your best friend Sophee when that time comes. I will keep him with me for as long as he is pain free. I add cooked hamburger to his dinner and he at least eats that. Today is my birthday-I wish you were both here to celebrate it with me. Love you both so much-xoxoxox Mommy

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