Trevor's Mom Has Gone Home, They're together again - forever Options

[Gretta's Mom]

Dear friends who loved Trevor and his mom (and that seems like half the world - they were miraculous souls)

Trevor's mom joined him in the Perfect World on April 9. They are now reunited, never to be parted again. If it's not too inappropriate, here is a poem I wrote to her. If it is, and the site admin takes this post down, I'll understand and repost.

Little Sister, where are you?
Little Sister, so very tiny – every drop of blood exchanged for life (a total blood replacement at birth)
Little Sister, so very little – of the curly blonde hair and sharp teeth (she bit HARD as a toddler)
Little Sister – screaming in the night no one could wake you up (nightmares from brain effects of the blood transfusion)
Little Sister – I look around for your spirit but I don’t see it, I don’t feel it.
Little Sister – Are you gone forever? Will I never feel your spirit like I felt the spirits of Rufus and Gretta? (my two dogs)
Little Sister – I am here to be with you as we had always planned, but you are gone. Now every city looks the same, the same without you.
Little Sister – You are my heart, you are half of everything I am.
Little Sister – Dreamer dreams lonely dreams and Kelly walks in circles looking for you. I do my best to love them – but they know. (her two dogs)
Little Sister – Maybe I will have to leave your house in order for your spirit to find me.
Little Sister – In the end I could not help you, I could not save you. I am so sorry.
Little Sister – Did you take a part of my heart with you? Does it hurt so much that I can’t feel it?
Little Sister – Did you leave a part of your heart with me? I hope so. Oh how I hope so. Oh how I miss you. Oh how I love you.
Little Sister, little star. How do I know which one you are?

Gretta and rufus's mom

[Brutus]

Gretta's Mom,

I read the forum but don't post often anymore, I have been following both yours and Bobbie's stories. I am very sorry for your loss of Bobbie, my heart goes out to you. I am praying for you and your family. Much peace and blessing. My thoughts are with you.

Love,
Sonya

[LoveMyMickey]

A Butterfly poem for Bobbie.

My Little Butterfly

Today a little butterfly flew by me.
I thought to myself where have you been little butterfly.
You come into this world as a cocoon all by yourself and blossom into
this beautiful butterfly and fly off to see the world.
What you don’t realize little butterfly as you flutter through your days
is how you touch those around you in your soft gentle way.
You don’t even realize the wonder and awe you create around you.
she fluttered her wings toward me as if she was waving good-by as she
headed towards the horizon.
She looked very happy and content as she went on her way, as if to say
to me “Don’t worry I’ll be okay”.
I was sad to see her go for she had touched my heart in such a way that
I knew my life would never be the same.
She had left an imprint of all the beauty life has to offer.
I knew each time I looked at another butterfly or horizon I would
remember our moment in time when it was only her and I.
I knew I would be a better person all because this little butterfly flew by
me one bright sunny day.

Written by Barbara Ann Rogers

Bobbie and I both joined LS in April 2011. I had just lost my Mickey two months before. Bobbie's Trevor was very sick but she always found time to comfort me. We shared tears and some laughs too. She and I loved butterflies and believed they are a sign from our pets after they go to heaven. So when I found this butterfly poem I thought of Bobbie and Trevor.

I have planted two Butterfly Bushes here at home in memory of Bobbie and Trevor. They should grow and bloom this summer with flowers that butterflies love.

My Dear Bobbie, send me a butterfly, okay? I'll never forget you and Trevor. Love Ya"!

LoveMyMickey

[DannysMom]

Gretta's Mom, my condolences on the loss of your sister. Even though the loss hurts, I hope it is a small comfort to you that she is no longer in pain. I'm sure there was a happy reunion between Bobby and Trevor.

Hugs,
DannysMom

[Gretta's Mom]

Thank you so much Sonya for loving Trevor and BObbie and me. I know she has now joined all the dogs she loved on this earth and that she is free of pain and suffering. I am trying my best to honor her memory by loving her living dogs, Dreamer and Kelly, and to visit and tend the graves of the seen dogs and two birds that have gone before her and with whom she is now reunited forever. Thank you for loving us and for these kind words of rememberance.

Grett and Rufus's Mom (Jeanne)

Gretta's Mom,

I read the forum but don't post often anymore, I have been following both yours and Bobbie's stories. I am very sorry for your loss of Bobbie, my heart goes out to you. I am praying for you and your family. Much peace and blessing. My thoughts are with you.

Love,
Sonya

[Gretta's Mom]

oh Love My mickey - one of our true blue Four Musketeers. You were the one who taught Bobbie about Butterflies and then she taught me. they really ARE souls fluttering around in this mortal world. landing where they may and thus testing the souls of men. Thos who recognize them for what they are, and heaven-bound. Those who brush them away have a long way to go yet to find happiness. Butterflies are destined for the perfect World and to take the ones who love them directly there. They also continue to remind us that we too have a home beyond the skies. I'm going to ifnd out what Butterfly bushes are and plant two in her yard.

God bless you LMM and please keep on being a member of our Four Musketeers, OK?

Rufus and Gretta's mom (Jeanne)

A Butterfly poem for Bobbie.

My Little Butterfly

Today a little butterfly flew by me.
I thought to myself where have you been little butterfly.
You come into this world as a cocoon all by yourself and blossom into
this beautiful butterfly and fly off to see the world.
What you don’t realize little butterfly as you flutter through your days
is how you touch those around you in your soft gentle way.
You don’t even realize the wonder and awe you create around you.
she fluttered her wings toward me as if she was waving good-by as she
headed towards the horizon.
She looked very happy and content as she went on her way, as if to say
to me “Don’t worry I’ll be okay”.
I was sad to see her go for she had touched my heart in such a way that
I knew my life would never be the same.
She had left an imprint of all the beauty life has to offer.
I knew each time I looked at another butterfly or horizon I would
remember our moment in time when it was only her and I.
I knew I would be a better person all because this little butterfly flew by
me one bright sunny day.

Written by Barbara Ann Rogers

Bobbie and I both joined LS in April 2011. I had just lost my Mickey two months before. Bobbie's Trevor was very sick but she always found time to comfort me. We shared tears and some laughs too. She and I loved butterflies and believed they are a sign from our pets after they go to heaven. So when I found this butterfly poem I thought of Bobbie and Trevor.

I have planted two Butterfly Bushes here at home in memory of Bobbie and Trevor. They should grow and bloom this summer with flowers that butterflies love.

My Dear Bobbie, send me a butterfly, okay? I'll never forget you and Trevor. Love Ya"!

LoveMyMickey

[moon_beam]

Hi, Jeanne, thank you so much for sharing with us the news of your beloved sister, and a member of our forum family. It is times like these when words are so inadequate, when sometimes just listening is the greatest comfort to a broken heart. It is not unusual to feel numb when our loved one - - whoever the life form - - is no longer physically with us. The good news is that love transcends all boundaries of this physically oriented world. So please let your heart find comfort in knowing that the love you and your beloved Bobbie share is eternal.

I hope today is treating you kindly and that you will have a peaceful evening blessed with your beloved Gretta's, Rufus', and Bobbie's sweet Living Spirits to comfort you. Please know you are in my thoughts and prayers, and please let us know how you're doing.

Peace and blessings,
moon_beam

[my George]

Oh......Jeanne....

Thank you for letting us know.....

((((((((HUGS))))))))

George's mum

[Gretta's Mom]

Thank you for being our friend, Sonya. Your icon brings tears to my eyes. My second dog was a half black lab/half Newfie named Rufus and he was getting to be a gray muzzler. Maybe the passing of our dogs is practice for the passing of our most beloved people. Thank you for your prayers - they are what does the most.

Rufus and Gretta's mom

Gretta's Mom,

I read the forum but don't post often anymore, I have been following both yours and Bobbie's stories. I am very sorry for your loss of Bobbie, my heart goes out to you. I am praying for you and your family. Much peace and blessing. My thoughts are with you.

Love,
Sonya

[Gretta's Mom]

Thank you so much Danny's mom. Yes, Bobbie is out of the pain that defined her whole adult life and she is in the Garden of Perfect Delight. I'm sure Trevor, also out of his suffering, was trying to inch through gate to be the first one to greet her.

Gretta and Rufus's mom

Gretta's Mom, my condolences on the loss of your sister. Even though the loss hurts, I hope it is a small comfort to you that she is no longer in pain. I'm sure there was a happy reunion between Bobby and Trevor.

Hugs,
DannysMom

[Brutus]

Thank you for being our friend, Sonya. Your icon brings tears to my eyes. My second dog was a half black lab/half Newfie named Rufus and he was getting to be a gray muzzler. Maybe the passing of our dogs is practice for the passing of our most beloved people. Thank you for your prayers - they are what does the most.

Rufus and Gretta's mom

I do believe that is true....Brutus was the closest thing I had lost until my parents passed not too long ago. Pain is pain, although different in some ways, it's all painful. I don't know if you are a country music fan, but this song below always makes me smile (through the tears).

http://youtu.be/vTnWFT3DvVA

For me, time did not heal my broken heart from my many recent loses, be it four legs or two, but it makes it more bearable.

I will be praying time treats you kindly ((hugs))

Love,
Sonya

[Gretta's Mom]

Sonya

Your song has made me cry, too. For all the beings, two-legged and four- who have gone on before me. But I KNOW I will see them again.

Rufus and Gretta's mom

[Gretta's Mom]

Dear Friends

On August 1, Bobbie was joined in heaven by her precious father. She was his favorite daughter, so I imagine they are each delighted that their earthly sojourn is over and they will be eternally in each other's company.

Dad was the most gentle, caring, unassuming, praying, kind man who ever walked the earth. I am proud to bear his name - now as a reminder of his earthly love for me and as a banner under which to change my life to imitate his.

I love you Bobbie. I love you Daddy. Our homestead is in heaven now. We stragglers have a few more pages in our books of earthly life, and if we live them as well and you two did, we will be joining you in our family's heavenly home.

Gretta and Rufus's mom

[Brutus]

I am very sorry Jeanne. My thoughts are with you.

[Gretta's Mom]

Thank you ever so much, Sonya. Someday, when we all get to the Perfect World, I want to meet your beautiful Brutus and spend a whole day petting him, OK?

Jeanne (Gretta and Rufus's mom)

[Gretta's Mom]

Hi Trevor's mom

I know you are having the happiest days in the Perfect World with daddy and Trevor and all your beloved cocker spaniels and birds and all the animals you loved so much through Lightning Strike. I've been walking Kelly and Dreamer for about a mile a day, and wonder of wonders, Kelly has 90% mastered the art of walking with a soft leash. Dreamer seems not to have learned the concept of an "instruction" and I know he would get it quickly if I were to walk him alone, but then he's so sweet and cute that he'll probably get through his life never having to learn to "mind."

Thank you for letting me take care of these two beautiful dogs. They have been such a comfort to me as, speaking from the earthly perspective, you are gone and now daddy is gone, too. I feel like an orphan. Please put in a good word for me with the Good Shepherd and tell Him I'm doing my best to honor both of your memories. One of the two hardest things I have ever done is the thing I did to honor daddy's memory. You know and he knows what it is. Please tell him that that was a gift I tried to gave him - right or wrong.

I love you Trevor's mom. Someday we will all be reunited in the perfect World. I can't wait.

Gretta and Rufus's mom

[Gretta's Mom]

Good morning Trevor's mom,

I know it is not possible to "spoil" heaven for anyone since it is the Perfect World. As expected, someone we know and do not love is continuing her cruelty and greed. If anything it's accelerated. You can see everything from the perfect World and know the consequences which will eventually accrue for such despicable actions. Could I ask you a favor, Baby Sister? Could you put in a little good word for me with the Good Shepherd and ask Him to soothe my mind a little bit, since I'm becoming kind of a wreck over your departure for the Perfect World and then Daddy's and then you-know-who's land speed record to run around and snarf up all the money she possibly can from his estate. I'm sure the Good Shepherd will remind you that the prince of this world is His sworn enemy and that this enemy cannot possibly win against the All-Powerful creator - but he sure can cause plenty of heartache and tears. I'm going to visit Linda B, your old friend, to try to get some help. She was a doll to accept me as a patient. I'm almost all moved in to my lower Charles Village aerie - 38 stairs to go up just two floors - tooo small to get a couch or a loveseat up there so I'm using you guys' old futon as a couch (sans frame. Gather your and my dogs and other animal friends and look down on the place and then roll on the ground with laughter. The investment manager who takes care of the owners property is a mean man - Stan told me these kinds of people were called Baltimorons! what a perfect name. Have a perfect time with daddy and all your animal friends today in the Perfect World.

I love you Little Sister.

Rufus and Gretta's mom

[Gretta's Mom]

Good morning Trevor's mom

I know you are having a wonderful day in the Perfect World, because every day in the Perfect World is a wonderful day - full or everything I wanted for you: happiness, lightness, joy, beauty, good food, cool water, sunshine and shade - and dogs, dogs, dogs - and all those other wonderful animals that you met here on LS. Don't you just LOVE Baby Marius? And Georgie-Porgie, the Old English Sheepdog? And having daddy with you must be, well, heaven. Please tell him I love him and miss him SOOOOO much. Somehow I see him in my mind's eye sitting in comfortable red flannel PJ's , drinking a cup of coffee (you don't have to worry about things being "bad for you" in heaven, talking up a storm and sometimes wandering over to the Irish section and calling together the old softball team for some reminiscing about the old days.

I love both of you so much and I miss both of you so much. You know how when you're alone, how you cry in secret cuz you don't want to upset people. That's me.

Please keep Trevor-Forever forever by your side (like I have to ask you to do that!) and I will try to do my best down here so I can be sure to join you guys up there in the Perfect World. As the old song goes, "When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing it will be."

With all my heart and all my love,

Rufus and Gretta's mom

[Gretta's Mom]

Hi dearest sister of all times,

You're in heaven now so you know how much I miss you each and every day. I don't drive on Glydon Avenue now, I go on Bond avenue instead so I can pass by your physical resting place and say hi to you and daddy.

Your chair is empty now but the tray table is still upended on it to keep Kelly off. And you blue prayer shawl is still on the back. It's only YOU who aren't there. I look at the picture with you holding an infant and you have that smile on your face that is one of pure contentment.

Since the dogs are not on the exact same schedule every day because I come and go, they are reverting to pooping and peeing in the house. I feel sorry for them - they have been through so much loss and now I, to whom they have gotten so attached, and who I'm sure they thought would live here forever, am in the irregular come-and-go mode. But I do the best I can because I love them like I love you.

If you could, please send me a thought about what heaven is like and how you and daddy and all the dogs are living. There will be a great big beautiful rottweiler coming to heaven today. His name is Kal-El. He belonged to Shane Meyer, someone I met on Lightning Strike. I started corresponding with him when he lost his previous dog, also a giant rottweiler. He had Kal-El about as long as I had Rufus and he loved him as much as a love Rufus. Unfortunately, Kal-El got cancer of something about six months ago. Shane put him on chemo and he was doing fine until about a week ago, when it was discovered that the cancer had spread to his bones. He stopped eating, lay down almost all the time and Shane decided that he would break his own heart once more so that great Big beautiful Kal-El could be out of pain and could be in the Perfect World. Could you round up our posse and go and meet Kal-El at heaven's door and give him a great big welcome? Tell him his dad loves and misses him so much he could lay down and die himself but he won't. Maybe all of you could join in a giant send-down of love rays to Kal-El's dad so he knows Kal-El is safe and sound and that they WILL one day be reunited. Maybe you guys could think of a signal Kal-El could send to his dad - like Mom sent me feathers and Trevor sent you butterflies and I think daddy is sending me pennies. Some time when Kal-El feels better (oops, he's in the PERFECT WORLD) ask him about the little turtles his dad raises. Our dad will LOVE Kal-El because he is so big and kind and gentle. And please ask the Good Shpeherd to send a blessing down on Shane in honor of all the love and care he gave to Kal-EL and to soothe his broken heart just a tiny bit. Stan told me that many years ago in comic books, Stan told me that many years ago in comic books, Superman's real name was Kal-El.

Little sister, your heart is a big as the universe when it comes to dogs. Please give Kal-El a great big hug from his dad and stroke his beautiful head and tell him he had the best dad in the world.

I love you, Little Sister

Hi Gretta!
Hi Rufus!

[Gretta's Mom]

Hello Little Sister,

A lot had happened since I last wrote to you on Lightning Strike. You know all about it
since you are in heaven and I'm sure you can see and hear everything that goes on down here. Your husband has been a real disappointment.
I know you love him a lot so I'm cutting him so slack and trying to do things for my OWN reasons, not only his.
I love your dogs so much that I am NOT going to give them up. If I did, they would have a sad life, being left all alone in the house.
It looks like he might have a full time job and if so they would have to be alone in the house all day. AGAIN.
Poor little guys!
Rest your mind, tough. I will NEVER let that happen to them - EVER!
Like is hard but if you keep your eye on what is honorable, decisions are a lot easier.
Please help me when my mind wants to revert to its old ways - revenge, anger, feeling injustice.
This world truly IS governed by the guy who calls himself its prince.
Thank you for the years we had together. They were a miracle. I love you so much and I miss you so much sometimes it feels like I will die of sadness.
But God has a job for me here on earth and obviously it's not done yet.
Thank you Baby Sister, thank you for YOU.

Gretta and Rufus's mom