A Thankful Thursday Finale

How pawesome that New Year's Eve falls on Thankful Thursday. This is the purrfect time to be grateful for everything we've been blessed with this year.

First and foremost, though I lost my sweet girl Rosie in May of this year, I am grateful beyond words for every moment I had with her in 2015, and every year before that. Rosie will always be my baby girl, and I will love her always and forever, no matter what year it is.

Thank you, Ann from Zoolatry, for creating this beautiful memorial image for my Rosie after I lost her in May. It means more to me than I could ever describe.

On this final Thankful Thursday and final day of 2015, I am also grateful for my parents, my sister, and all of my family, of course including all of the furbabies currently in my life. I am grateful every day for my sweet pup Astrid, for my special boy Evan, for my sweet little Thimble, and for my newest 2015 addition - my happy and active Eddy. I am thankful for our furry housemate Toby, my sister's cat and Thimble's brother. And I am grateful for the visits I have with my parents' sweet cats - Thimble's other brothers Trapper and Talon, and their new little sisters Gemma and Freya.

And, of course, I am thankful for all of my you, my blogging friends and furiends! Although it was born in 2014, it wasn't until earlier this year that I really started focusing on and molding this blog, often with the help and support of you kind folk out there. I will be forever grateful for how you all helped me get this blog to where it is now. What's more, it was all of you who helped me through the loss of my sweet Rosie with your kind, caring words, for which I will always be thankful. And it was all of you who purred and prayed when all of my other furbabies went through their own medical issues throughout the year. And of course you were all also there with us through the many happy and fun times of our year! Thank you, all of my friends and furiends, for being there for my furbabies and I all this past year of 2015!

Last but not least, I know my furbabies want a turn to give their thanks for this year of 2015. My furbabies always let me know in their sweet ways that they are grateful for their life with me, as I am for mine with them. They are grateful for their home and their food and the many snuggles we share. They are grateful for each other, and for their pawpaw and gammy and auntie. And they are of course thankful for all of you, our blogging friends and furiends!

And, my furbabies wanted to give a special shout-out to their warm snoozie spots, and the blankies their gammies made them. Sometimes it's the simple pleasures in life that really keep us going.

And so, on this Seventh Day of Christmas, I would like to wholeheartedly wish you all a Happy New Year's Eve! I hope that you all ring in the New Year with health and happiness, and with blessings beyond words!