Not Far Away

Hi sweetiepeeps - this is Winnie Wiggles. Up here, yes, up here in the fluffy cloud. I just wanted to let you all know I am still large and in charge, I just got a new place to supervise these days, while I'm watching over my mama and the fatties in Flower Mound.

The big guy put me in charge of the all you can eat buffet, since I am super good at breaking up scuffles, and I got voted most fashionable angel puggy 2 years in a row for wearing sparkley red shoes with my white gown. Angel Odie and I have been joined by a few friends since I last talked to you. Everypuggy up here wants me tell their mamas we are fat and happy and even more spoiled than before, if you can even imagine!

My mom packs up my picture and takes it with her every time she and dad go to Fredericksburg, since that was my favorite trip of all. And every night she gives my picture a kiss and tells me about her day. When she is sad, she still holds me, but I don't shed on her clothes anymore.

There will be a day when we'll get to see each other again, and kiss and hug. But for now we are enjoying naps and extra snacks. Thank you to everyone who remembered me on my birthday. It has brought happy tears to the mama's eyes.
In the meantime, I am blowing you all kisses!

Goodbye Granny

Mommy is crying many tears today for one of her dearest friends has lost sweet little Granny to the bridge this morning.
But Granny and I have had quite a day, and I've shown her where the giant treat jar is, the one that is never empty, and the softest clouds are reserved for Granny and me, and I found her a bright blue angel robe to wear with her red sparkley shoes, so we will match for the pug angel parade on Sunday.
We send our love to Granny's large extended family, who has taken in more little lost souls and made sure they are adored. If the world were filled with people like Heather and Michael, there would not be a single kitty or pup pup on the streets.
With love from heaven,
Jiggley Angel and Granny

Tagged by my Sweet Pal Daisy

I gots a special delivery up here at the pearly gates, a little envelope with a taggy attached from my sweet friend Daisy!!

Name for jobs you have:
1) being a Mentor Diva on Earth and now in Heaven
2) Chewing the nose off the Teddy Bear
3)Washing Howie's face (a big job!!)
4) Keeping mommy's lap occupied 24-7.

Name four places where you have lived(or stayed at)
1)With my Aunty Louise
2)To the Pug Spaw Retreat with Mommy in Daddy in Fredwicksboog
3)To East Texas to Aunty Kelly's mommy's house to visit
4)To Gramma's house where I am da mashed potato queen bee!


Name 4 places you would rather be:
1) just one - I would rather be with my mommy, but fortunately there is no time in heaven. In the wink of an eye, we will be together again.

A Song for an Angel

Mommy is almost finished with Winnie's Garden, the large painting she started before I died. I was there by her side and helped her with it, making sure she always had to step over me to put each bit of paint on the canvas. So mommy will keep it always in my memory.

She will add some of my paw prints in front of the pots of flowers, and it will be done. Mommy has felt my spirit with her many times since I went to heaven, most of all at night before bedtime. She believes my spirit is still nearby, because I never left her side when I was here on earth.

If i were a painter

i would paint my memory

if thats the only way for you to be with me

we'd be there together

just like we used to be

underneath the swirling skies for all to see

and i'm dreaming of a place where i could see your face

and i think my brush would take me there

but only if i were a painter and could paint a memory

climb inside the swirling skies to be with you

and i'm dreaming of a place where i could see your face

and i think my brush would take me there

but only if i were a painter

and could paint a memory

i'd climb inside the swirling skies to be with you

i'd climb inside the skies to be with you

Thank you Aunty Elizabeth, for sharing these lyrics with mom.
xxoo
Angel Wiggles

Heavenly Missive

Whippy creme and scrambled eggs are
Way up here in Heaven
In case you too
See only blue and wonder what you're gettin

They're other things like angel wings
With fur that's never sheddin'.
There's no disease or achin knees
and wrinkles smooth and silken

I fall asleep and dream of you
and times when we were given
to sprint and run and tug on toys
and dash to mom for lovin.

Tonight no tears oh Howie dear
because I have been taken
I’ll kiss your cheek and whiskers sweet
And heal the ache within you.

The pain it fades and goes away
And even loss feels lighter
When time moves on then pushes back
All that separates us.

Heaven's Newest Angel

One of my sweetest friends joined me today, Gracie Jane . She was rescued by my Aunty Sharon and Uncle Bill and cherished and loved every moment they had her. Little Gracie was deaf, but that never stopped her from following her mommy everywhere she went. Please send her family love and support to help heal their broken hearts.
love and kisses,
Angel Wiggles

To My Valentine

Today is my heart is full of you, my little valentine. I thought there would be so many years with you, so many times ahead to wake up to your morningsong. I promise I won’t forget. All the times you gazed up at me with such wisdom and how you knew when I was teasing and would hop up and nip the tip of my nose. I always felt you were the wise one in the relationship, a little soul who understood more than she should have.

It hurt to see you suffer, and friends say someday memories of that time will fade and leave only the good thoughts. But today my heart aches for your loss, my angel, the way you barked hello with such fierce love each time you saw me, and how you were always at my heels until the day you sat on your pillow in the bedroom and no longer had the breath to follow me.

It was sunny and beautiful today. You would have spent the day under the pear tree in the back yard, eating the little nuts that fall on the ground and napping in the sunshine. This evening Howard’s face would have required a good washing, and the little teddy bear’s nose would need chewing. You would have barked and spun with delight when dad came home from work, because he always had something special for his girl when he cooked dinner.

For one more hug, one more time to bury my face in your fur and tell you I love you, I would give so much. I miss you baby girl. Until we meet again, I'll hold you in my dreams.

Dog of the Day - Heaven Can Wait!!!

*tosses spangley outfits haphazardly out of her traveling trunk, looking for just the right one...*
Gosh oh my gosh - I am Dog of the DAY!!!! woo rooo ROOOOOOOOOO! *spins around in circles, making the angels wonder about her sobriety* What a HUGE honor doggy friends, and thank you so much for your loving notes. I have been busy traveling this week - the ladder up to the clouds can sure work a jiggley girl's glutes.
And once I got here, well, you just wouldn't believe. White white white. Don't these angels wear ANY other color? So I suggested FUSCHIA. It's bright. It's flashy. It looks great with red shoes. Where on earth have the fashion police been in my absence?
But, I digress - The little bell on the big golden fence jingled for me this morning, and my angel friend Lena came racing over like the wind with a tiny little envelope. I would have liked to open it on a podium with a spotlight, like I'm used to doing for such honors, but I promised Saints Piggy and Ascii that I would at least read through Chapter One, Lessons in Diva Humility. *wipes little bead of sweat from her wrinkley noggin* So I'll refrain from an acceptance speech, just this once, but will take this opportunity again to say thank you.
*Looks with dismay downward and shakes her head* tsk tsk. There she goes again crying over all the little letters and gifts and notes. Sweetums, my secretary has fallen so behind in answering my mail. She is a sentimental thing, but you know how your mommies are. I will tickle her cheek tonight in her sleep with some kisses to make her feel better. She still thinks about me most in the mornings, when she first wakes up. *whips out pink megaphone and points it toward earth* MOMMEE!! HEY, I"M OKAY!!! THEY'RE FEEDING ME EGGS BENEDICT FOR BREKKIES HERE. HOW COME YOU NEVER MADE ME THAT? HMMM??
What? Scuse me sweetums, Angel Pugsident Irving just judiciously mentioned that it's not in good form to taunt your grieving mommy over lackluster past brekkies or other such imagined infractions, so I had to put away the pink megaphone. At least for now.
Again, thank you *checks Humility Notecard No. 4* again for the big honor of Dog of the Day. Don't forget, Aunty Wiggley is watching over every one of you. Make sure your socks match your outfits and you don't snap back to your bossy big sisters, you hear me? I've got to run now - Angel Autumn and I are going shopping. The outlet malls up here are deee-vine!!!
*blows millions of kisses downward* I love you.

A Poem from Poet Laureate Angel Ascii

Winnifred Wigglepants wiggled

Our hearts away

And then she went somewhere else

To stay

With all the animals we loved

With all the friends we cherished

Too short a time,

Too brief a life

We love you;

When you would wiggle,

It made us giggle.

Diva dog in the sky,

We wonder why

You had to go.

We just don’t know.

We cry, we sigh, we weep,

With only memories to keep.

Winnie has gone to the Bridge

Winnie died this morning very early while she was in the care of the tech at the ICU. I think she was very tired. She was my brave girl and was such a big part of our lives. Please say a prayer that she is comforted now.

She loves breakfast-time so much. I hope that she is enjoying scrambley egg and a bowl of delicious kibble this morning and making the angels laugh with her roo roo roo morning song and breakfast time spinning.

Who will wash Howie's face now? Who will sit on my feet when I am on the 'puter? Who will keep dad company in the kitchen when he is cooking? Our little one with such a big heart is gone, and it all happened so quickly and unexpectedly.

We were so blessed to have her with us for just 2 short years. What an extraordinary little dog she was.

I told her last night it was okay to go - she was sitting up in her oxygen cage at the ICU for 2 days, waiting for me. She always sat and waited for me. The moment she laid down was when she passed.

Please hug your babies for me today and say a prayer for angel Winnie. She was cherished.