Dear Casey, Letters to the Dog I Lost (6)

Dear Casey,

It's been a month, we finally got the rug cleaned today after months of saying it needed done and while we were tearing apart the living room dad found your collar. He shook it and chidget went running looking for you, it's the first time in weeks she's shown signs of missing you. She's now curled up on my pajama pants on my floor snoring. I think she came in here looking for your bed, but I gave that to Trisha and Mona adores it. She sleeps in it the same way you did.

Thursday is thanksgiving and we're going to have 12 people in this house it's going to be weird. Our first holiday with you gone, in 2 weeks I leave for Pittsburgh and it's weird to think you won't be sleeping in here while I'm gone and I don't know why that feels so weird now when until today it's seemed fairly normal.

On Halloween Nikki's friend Missy brought her kids over, Sammy asked where you were and I just said we didn't have you anymore. How do I look at a 9 year old boy and 5 year old girl and explain death? I don't know, I feel like i'm rambling for no reason now
November 22nd, 2014 at 05:14pm