I don’t need to let you know this as a result of I don’t need it to be true, however we stated goodbye to my beloved Cookie final week. Her smile and spunk lit up my days for over 13 years and I miss her terribly. 13 years! I’m the luckiest, and what I’d give for extra.
Cookie was my sidekick, my frontman, my finest pal, my real-life teddy bear, my soul pup. So long as Cookie was there, I used to be by no means alone. I can nearly really feel her snuggled up by my aspect now. Cookie obtained me by the darkest of days and brightened the most effective. She stored me firm by numerous lengthy days and lengthy nights as we constructed this web site from scratch. She style examined almost each recipe, too, whether or not I wished her to or not.
In her earlier years, Cookie had a terrifying tendency to shoot out the entrance door like a rocket, which impressed immense gratitude for each day that we obtained collectively. Then she obtained a terminal most cancers prognosis, lymphoma, and defied the percentages by residing one other two-and-a-half years. I at all times dreamed of taking good care of her in her previous age, and that’s what I obtained to do. Over the previous 12 months, she misplaced her listening to and her well being declined, which felt harder and complex than I ever anticipated. She died of previous age, and whereas I’ll at all times surprise if I made the fitting selections each step of the way in which, I’m discovering some peace and luxury in understanding that we spent all of her finest days collectively. A canine couldn’t have been extra cherished.
Cookie got here into my life on the excellent second, once I was recent out of school and studying to reside by myself. She walked with me all the way in which to marriage and motherhood. She left me precisely the place I need to be in my higher thirties, with my loving husband and our child woman. My coronary heart is so full and so damaged on the identical time.
Cookie was extraordinary and so was our bond. I spent a lot of our time collectively wishing for what I’ve now, but I’m feeling so sentimental about our particular time collectively as Cookie and Kate. Might this be your mild reminder to understand what you will have when you will have it.
Thanks for cooking together with us and for locating pleasure in her antics. I’ll be again quickly to share extra images and a few of my favourite Cookie recollections with you. She was actually the best.
