March has always been a month of very special days for our family and for some of our friends. Birthdays and anniversaries are celebrated from the beginning of the month to the end. I've always thought it interesting how some months are especially filled with more times of celebration than others. March is no exception.
This past week the beautiful Brittany girl pictured above turned 10 years old. Miss Molly Rose is affectionately known as Moll-moll to many who love her. She was born a few weeks before our first grandson was born. For the first few years of both of their lives they grew up together. Actually, Molly grew up with all of our grandchildren with many, many naps taken with them here in the afternoon at one time or another.
So in dog years Molly Rose is now 70 years old. You'd never know it by the way she lives her life, full of fun and vigor. Molly and her daughter Rosie are inseparable, and Rose turns 8 in April. The two of them are really a riot to watch together once they get going. Unexpected playfulness, barking, and crazy puppy spurts erupt at any given time.
It's hard to watch a dear friend grow old almost overnight. But, like her mother before her, she has grayed quite prematurely. Her hearing is a little off, and I see a little cloudiness in those eyes that once shined so brightly. Even so, her favorite place to sleep is still underneath the covers behind John's knees. And she loves to play with and eat, of all things, radishes.
In looking at over the many many photos we have here of Molly through the years I decided to share just a few in the above collage. I think they testify of the special love we feel for Molly and vice versa. As you may remember she and I spent a week together with our friend Julie and her dogs up at her lakeside campsite way up in the County. Molly was treated as the princess she has always been and the two of us really enjoyed each others company, as well as that of our hosts!
So today I just wanted to celebrate Molly here, to say how much we love her and how better our life is because of her very existence. She came into our heart and home at a time of great transition for us. And life has never, nor will it ever be, the same. I also thank God for the many friendships formed as a result of Molly Rose in our life, from her breeder to those who now share their lives with a Molly puppy. Miss Molly Rose, my Moll-moll - you are a true prima dona, bring laughter to us all, and you are such a sweet, good good girl - happy birthday to you!
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