My beautiful boy

We lost our beautiful boy yogi two months ago and to be honest it has taken this long for me to be able to write about him. 

He was 13 and he went far too soon as far as we are concerned.

Rather than write about how heartbroken Campbell and I are, I will try to share some of our most special memories of our time with him.

Yogi was a kiwi. He was born in New Zealand and was tiny when we got him. I remember bringing him home and he walked around the house, like he owned it, immediately sat down and started chewing on our shoes! When we got him, he fit perfectly in my hand.

He was loved by everyone who met him. Even when we moved back to Scotland, we had three people offer to keep him rather than fly him home with us and put him through the tough journey. It was never going to happen (we could never have parted from him) but it shows just how much he was loved. 

He was part of team Thomson. Living overseas, our day to day life consisted of Campbell, me and Yogi. We called ourselves team Thomson and together we could do anything!

Yogi lived in 14 homes! As you may know, we moved house alot. This is partly how I ended up being mortgage free at 46. Yogi took it all in his stride. He was always happy as long as we were together, and he quickly made each house his own.

Yogi was a beach boy. He was never happier than at the beach. He used to run so fast along the sand. He was always super excited, but weirdly, he never had any interest in the water. He just loved the beach!

He was also a snow baby. When we brought him home, we worried about how cold it would be for him. I remember our first snowfall (as it was our first in 12 years too). He was so cute when he went out exploring in the garden. We could not get him to come back in out of the snow because he was so fascinated by it.

There is not a day that goes by that I do not think of him. When I leave the house, enter a room, make a meal, watch tv, go for a walk, he is always on my mind and I miss him dearly. 

I like to believe that he still walks with me and that I will see him when it is my time to move on. Till we meet again, my beautiful boy x