Thanks!! Don't want to make this long, but gotta tell you this ... good news and
wonderful news! As most of you know, we have moved back to our home in Alabama for a little while. I only had a few short days to try and get acquainted with Bear and he was really shy with me. He would only let me hold him for a minute or two and didn't really warm up. He was doing great with Trish & her pack and he was such a little sweetie, I was surprised that adoption requests weren't pouring in! The night before we left Colorado, we were having dinner with Trish and her family. Just before we were leaving, Bear came over and sat right down at my feet ... I naturally reached down and picked him up for a last hug. He snuggled right up and laid his little head right on my heart and began to cry the most pitiful little cry I have ever heard!!
I absolutely felt like he ripped my heart out. I couldn't help but cry and I told Trish, noone would ever want him and although I felt I couldn't take him that night,
we wanted him! She said that she and Frank would bring him down to us in June. I was soooo happy and it was terribly hard to have to leave him. Some of you know how awful it was on the trip home in our motorhome. Patrick got sick and was in Heart Hospital in Albequerque, NM. When he was discharged, my son flew up there and drove us home. I just kept thinking, thank God I waited about bringing Bear home! I didn't understand my "gut feeling" about waiting for Bear until after we got home. Trish called me and said that calls were pouring in about Bear!! Really long story short .... there was the
perfect forever home for Bear and as heartbreaking as it was for me ... I let him go. It was soooo much better for him. He is adjusting, as we knew he would, and he is being treated like a little King!!! I had already made so many plans for my little "Bama Bear", but I know that I can't question the "higher" plan that was also being made and I thank God that it turned out the way it did ... and that I didn't "get in the way"!! Don't you just love "happy endings"!?!
