last thoughts of 2012

my special girl.  i never wanted to be a mama until i met you.  you taught me what true devotion looks like.  you reminded me about the value and strength in being patient.  you taught me how to keep my cool, er, be graceful, in the midst of unexpected chaos.

you taught me how to love every day.  how every day can be the "best day of my life!".  you taught me to never give up.  to just play and cuddle, whenever in doubt.  and truly, truly--home is wherever i am with you.  

you are my strength, my love.  i make it through the work day, just to come home and see your smiling face.  every. single. day.

                   i love ya, kid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  happy new year & cheers to a new beginning in 2013.

Welcome Home

I saw this on Pinterest and I  think it near killed me.   Pit bulls remember.  They wait.  And they love you no matter what.

It doesn't get old

This is one of my favorite pictures of B.  She is about 2 months old here.  Its a picture that never gets old to me and makes my heart melt every time.

Its been a rough year and an even rougher December.  In my melodrama, its easy for me to throw pity parties left and right but in the end... the thought of my baby girl keeps me in line.  She's the apple of my eye, the toy in my cereal box, the star on my Christmas tree.

I'm ready to leave 2012 behind and start on a clean slate... with my pit bull on my side, right where she belongs.

""It's not so much that I couldn't live without him," she wrote of Floyd in April. "It's just that I wouldn't want to."   --Miley Cyrus talking about her dog.