As Xanadu’s surgery date approaches, I am getting nervous. The kind of butterflies you get when you don’t know what to expect from something. I am by nature a very optimistic person, like to think the best of everything, but I am also realistic and read too much. There is a part of me that worries that Xan won’t make it through the surgery on Wednesday. So I have been thinking up ways to memorialize Xanadu.
It started with creating a stepping stone with his pawprint. My thought was to do a small stone with his pawprint, and once he crosses the bridge, insert the small stone into a larger one that I can stamp his DOB and DOD.
Tonight, I painted the bottom of his healthy front paw and stamped it on a canvas to hang on the wall.
Tomorrow is his last night as a 4-legged dog… what should I do next?