12/28/2025
Happy Holidays everyone! We have been busy creating and maintaining a great place for your pets to get serviced. Our salon is coming together with decorations from loved ones, our books are filling up with requests from new friends, and our planner is BURSTING with events in the 2026 year! Im going to get a little personal💕
Ive been splitting my energy into a few different directions all year. Not accidentally, but with intention. I remember being 16, graduating high school early hoping it would make my mom proud enough to get clean and get me out of foster care. Not even having a license & riding the bus to community college classes. Im no stranger to hard work; or feeling alone. I dont enjoy the alone part, but I know the feeling. Part of my energy has been going to event planning; or social organizing. Helping give people a community. Not necessarily just dog groomers; but people looking for belonging.
This year Ive spent a lot of energy on some great things. We've hosted an event to encourage Pet CPR for residential and commercial use through IDPPGA, && also a few live music events related to animal adoption! We've traveled across the country again, twice! Ive pitched the academy to a few instructors and have them interested enough to keep asking questions. We have partnered with the two entities that we set out to and have permission to take their courses with us to the next level. Our mentors are some of the best and we would be nowhere without their support. Ive worked some awesome music events & accompanied my better half to almost 200 of his own shows this year alone.
Ive also spent it on some not so great things. Ive argued when I should have kept quiet, and I kept quiet when I should have spoken up. Ive trusted too much, or not enough. I think everybody can relate to this, on some level. Holidays can be hard for lots of folks, myself included. But it helps to look back and remember now that Im not waiting for anybody to be proud of me. I see the beautiful blended family surrounding && supporting this mission and I am overcome with joy. This isnt just me anymore, I am not alone.
&& neither are you ❤️
