18/11/2025
When angels raise to heaven....RIP Adriana💔🙏🏻❤️
When I decided to start all this beautiful fairytale called Happy Paws, I was prepared on some ups and downs and only God knows how many I had so far trying to keep my head ‘over the water’ but I was never prepared for the fact that it will from time to time break my heart over and over again. So, to all those who were sending us messages in the last few days and I didn’t respond, don’t be mad as I was busy glueing pieces of my broken heart...and will tell why, this story you must hear....
Because of the work, family life and all those things that keeps us daily busy, I don’t have much time left for friends and whenever I have, we try to pay some visits, call or just go for a walk with doggies around in our countryside. But I had one wonderful friend Adriana I met here in our village, she was crazy about animals as much as I am and I think that was the reason we had an instant ‘click’. When she would come to bring her dog Dibbes or cat Joy for a brush up, we would not stop talking and laughing for hours. She had one of the most beautiful smiles I’ve seen, like it would come straight from her heart. Our dog Nelly is madly in love with Dibbes, husky that sleeps in the window all day long and whoever lives in our neighbourhood knows him and this lovely house as it always brings smile to see his funny face licking the window. Even our driver Alex looked after Dibbes for few days when they decided to go for holidays but didn’t have anyone to look after him, so I never liked that Dibbes loved Alex so much more than me.....well Alex brings fun and walks and I, annoying groomer cut dog nails...and sprinkle dogs with glitter....I think that was the reason.
Adriana and her boyfriend Julian worked as bus drivers and honestly knowing how wonderful they are, I never had problem to let our Head of Entertainment Timo go to visit his friends taking the bus. Years were passing, they moved in together after long house renovation and life seemed so perfect. We even had few messages exchange week ago to set the X-mas spa day for Dibbes and all was set, we were looking forward to see their renovated home and about their future plans...we heard those plans but not with chats and coffee....we heard in in the church as eulogy Julian shared with all who came to say final good bye to the love of his life. I will never ever be able to describe the echo of tears falling down in a big church...this time I could clearly hear it and as much as it was terrifying, it gave me also some calm to know that Adriana is at better place now, but men I will have some many angry questions once I reach the space high above, why oh why! There was no dry eye hearing Julian sp*ech in the church saying that they planned to get marry next year in May in that same church, having 3 kids...three boys as Julian has 2 wonderful brothers we all love in Nieuwveen. Even kids names were picked....The music in the church during the funeral was so beautiful also because all ladies that were singing had tears rolling their cheeks too, but they kept singing, I don’t even know how.
Adriana passed away unexpectedly, she was only 36 years old and we all in our village are heartbroken. Julian is left behind to pick the pieces of his heart, life and love and we all promised to help him do that. I as a groomer promise to look after husky Dibbes and Joy-her bellowed rescue cat, they will be the best-looking pets in our village for sure....and overloaded with our famous home made Happy Paws cookies.
Sometimes I don’t understand God’s ways and for sure I’ll have quite some ‘angry’ questions to ask once my time is up, but for now please-please-please hug those you love, kids, pets, siblings you were always fighting as a kids, parents....even your ‘enemies’...probably they need it the most.
And for our neighbours, pets lovers, our customers and friends in Nieuwveen, if you pass Adriana and Julian house in Kerkstraat please wave to Julian (and his wonderful brothers), smile at Dibbes laying at the window, show them they are not alone and that love from Adriana just found new way to come to them trough all of us. Happy Paws kind of love...
You all know good old saying that starts ‘It takes a village....’, this village loves Julian and we are here for him!
May our beautiful Adriana rest in peace and one thing I am sure, dogs in heaven got one beautiful soul to love and hug them trough eternity!
“If tears could build a stairway,
and memories a lane
We would walk right up to Heaven
and bring you back again.
No farewell words were spoken,
No time to say "Goodbye"
You were gone before we knew it,
and only God knows why.
My heart still aches with sadness,
and secret tears still flow.
What it meant to lose you
No one will ever know.
But now we know you want us
to mourn for you no more
To remember all the happy times
Life still has much in store.
Since you'll never be forgotten,
We pledge to you today
A hallowed place within our hearts
is where you'll always stay.”
