Can you beleive it?

I am not good at keeping track of birthdays.  And things like anniversaries - forget it.  Literally.  I have been known to forget my own birthday and I recently went a whole year telling people I was a year older then I actually am until I stopped to think and did the math over.  Embarrassing, but not so bad, I got to turn 41 twice after all.  There is one birthday though that I am not likely to forget.

Can you believe it?  It has been one year today since this little brown pipsqueak finally made a long overdue appearance for my painfully underage Emma.

It was almost exactly 4 months later that I took Ramsey to Cornell and I was trying to find it in me to say goodbye forever.  I am so immensely grateful that I didn't have to.

I am grateful to the good vets who saved Ramsey's life....

to my beautiful, sweet Emma, the very best mother, who will herself be celebrating her third birthday 4 weeks from now....

to all of the good people who read this blog, who care and who have contributed so much in so many ways.

And I am very, very grateful for the bewildering, daunting and often overwhelming odyssey that having donkeys in my life has been.  I would not have missed a day of this incredible journey, not even the bad days (and Lord, but we have we had a few of those).  I have learned so much, gained so much and the sharing of it has brought even more.  More than I could ever have imagined.

Happy Birthday my beautiful donkey-boy.  Here's hoping for many, many more.

And hey, don't go yet, we have to have a present right?  Leave a birthday wish sometime today, July 1st, and Ramsey will pick a lucky winner who will get to try some of my very special Wild-Blueberry/Rhubarb jam.  Even people who don't like blueberries or rhubarb like this stuff!