thank you EssTee for your post. I didn't reply when I first read it because I couldn't see through the tears to reply properly, or think straight for that matter. :(
Kerbear, thank you. :) I am ok. It has been 5 days now and I miss her like crazy. I have had unexpected house guests for the last 3 days so that has kept me somewhat distracted and busy which has helped. Now that they have gone and I'm sitting here alone with the kids already asleep I'm really feeling her absence. :( Our other dog has been howling. He has never howled but every meal time, he eats and then starts howling. They had their routine - eat, lick each other's bowls/faces, sniff bums (you know, dog stuff!) and now he's on his own. It's heart breaking hearing him.
We have to wait another week or so before we get her ashes back, and I think it might hit me again. :(
