For the last 15 years we have shared our home with our beautiful Golden Retriever, Goldi.   We lost our sweet girl a few days ago, but this is about her gift to us before she left us.

After moving to Colorado and settling in with our two young sons, we were ready to expand the family to include a puppy.  With a little research, we decided that a Golden would be a good fit, so we started the journey to find our new puppy.  After finding a wonderful family with new puppies, we had the very difficult decision of choosing the one we would bring home.

I love this time of year with all the decorations, the shopping, the Christmas cookies and the time spent with family and friends. When my children were little I remember settling in with our pillows and blankets on the couch, with a plate full of Christmas cookies and milk in preparation for a night filled with Christmas movies.

Many of the Christmas movies on TV air early in December, so we much preferred our VHS movies that we could watch closer to Christmas without commercials. We always started off with Home Alone and Home Alone 2–two of my son’s favorites.