the dog that changed my life

She was my angel sent here from Heaven,
To make certain I was doing my best.
Encouraging me to help another.
Letting me know it was not time to rest.

Oh I could go on with my day to day
And ignore what she had to say
She showed me the things I had to see

And reminded me of who I needed to be.
She was my angle sent her from heaven
And she changed my life.

I would have never known that a phone call in December of 2002 would change my life forever. It was a friend named Debbie and she was calling to see if I could help her place a 5-year-old Cairn Terrier named Bailey. I was shocked a little dog needed help? Someone was giving up a Cairn? I spoke to my husband to see what he thought he said, “let’s meet her and see what we think.”

Well for me this little red girl it was love at first sight but I said nothing and let Enrique make the decision. Charna and Leeca liked her so she was staying.

Adopting a "used dog" was something new to me as I felt a dog would always miss the first owner and never bond to number two. She got me thinking about how I could make a diferrence. About this time I discovered e-Bay and was searching for Cairn stuff when I came across Col Potter Cairn Reacue Network auction with a link to the web site. I filled out my application and poof I was involved I fund raising for Cairn Rescue.

Well changed Bailey’s name to Cookie and I was on the road to learning about patience, love, acceptance, compassion, and communication.

She was taken from me February 13, 2006 by a sudden illness but all that she gave me is still in my heart. I still can’t believe that she is gone but I thank her for how she changed my life.

Alone again.

I made this quilt to work through issues of my being a widow. It documents my journey to find who I am again now that I am alone.

She speaks to me and is me.

The story I tell is in the border. It begins with the upper left hand corner with the moon and the stars a normal night in the life of Mary. It moves down and over at the same time it moves to the right and then down the story surrounds her.

I am awaken to turmoil (people on my front porch telling me my husband has been killed) that sends me spinning, (this the curved lines,) this continues until I come to the triangles which is sharp painful that poke me and hurt me, I then move to the squares which is "blocking it all out" I am moving through my berevement a maze, hitting dead ends, feeling lost, I move on and find the road is smooth I am learning my 'new normal' I drift along finding my way ... until bang I hit one year and pain is renewed and starts all over again

Yet like Pandora my journey ends in "hope" the circle of green.

About me!

The kid in the pool is Jeffery.

This is Sadie.

This is Vonnie and Brook.

Hello my name is Mary and this is my fist blog entry.

A little about me I live in the Chicago metro area. My day job is a Social Worker for a Dialysis Company. I live with my dogs, the girls are Cairn Terriers: (oh sure you know Toto from the Wizard of Oz) Sadie, Brook and Vonnie. The only boy and King of the heard is Jeffery he is a Terrier mix.