Bring Your Loved One's Spirit Home: A Special Holiday Tree for our (Late) Dog Sprite!

Our fav photo of Sprite

Because our 16 1/2 year old dachshund passed away this past summer we wanted to do something special to remember him this holiday season. 
   Sprite was a funny little guy, who liked to keep to himself and didn't play with toys (he came to us from the rescue just before he turned 14 and wound up have several surgeries and 22 rotted teeth removed). Sprite loved Dolly and Franklin (and was learning to deal with Tyler the terror). He loved his grandma and grandpa (Tom's parents) and stayed there on some weekends.

Sprite's memorial tree

 So, this weekend, we bought a small counter-top-Sprite-Sized tree and decorations. My partner surprised me when he topped the tree with a butterfly. Why? Because after Sprite passed we saw yellow and black butterflies following us and our other dogs around. Even friends who read about Sprite's story were followed around or visited by yellow and black butterflies - so that's his sign.

  Every day I look at Sprite's tree this season I know he's around us. Consider doing something like this to honor someone you lost this year. 

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