I don’t need to inform you this as a result of I don’t need it to be true, however we mentioned 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 greatest good friend, 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 facet now. Cookie acquired me via the darkest of days and brightened one of the best. She stored me firm via 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 needed 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 daily that we acquired collectively. Then she obtained a terminal most cancers analysis, lymphoma, and defied the chances 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 acquired to do. Over the previous yr, she misplaced her listening to and her well being declined, which felt harder and sophisticated than I ever anticipated. She died of previous age, and whereas I’ll at all times marvel if I made the appropriate selections each step of the best way, I’m discovering some peace and luxury in figuring out that we spent all of her greatest 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 faculty and studying to stay alone. She walked with me all the best way 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 similar 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 light reminder to understand what you could have when you could 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.
