02/02/2025
š¾ Happy New Year, everyone! š¾
I hope your year has kicked off on the right paw and that 2025 is bringing you all the love, joy, and tail wags you deserve.
Life has been a lot lately, but I keep P-A-W-sitively persevering, one paw at a time. Through every storm, every heatwave, every firecracker boom and thunderstormāIāve been here. Working. Showing up. Giving my all. Because Smiles Fur Miles isnāt just a small businessāitās home. Itās Rileyās safe space. Itās Lucyās legacy. Itās the dream I built from the ground up.
But right now? My home is still rebuilding.
This January, I worked harder than everāearly mornings, late nights, tirelessly pushing forward every single day to keep going. I pushed through. I showed up. I gave everything I had. And somehow, in just one monthā¦
Everything I had was gone.
Not from bad decisions. Not from recklessness. Just life hitting hard, all at once.
No couch to cuddle on where we watched the Eras Tour on repeat or where a new pup learned to go pe**ee. No pillows stacked high for Riley to sink into. No comfort, just survival.
But today, for the first time in weeks⦠I have a bed.
Not just any bedāone that was lifted into this home with love. One that reminds me that even when things fall apart, there are still good people, still kindness, still moments that prove I am not alone. A heartfelt thank you to my neighbor and her friendāthis may just be a bed to some, but to me, itās a piece of home returning.
And if youāre reading this, if youāve been here, if youāve supported me in what I love to do, **if you see meā**thatās enough.
Iām not giving up. Not then, not now. And neither should you. Because every mile is a challenge, itās ruff, but in the end?
Itās always worth a smile.