Equine Assisted Transitions...

Yesterday was the second weekend that Tess, Faith and I volunteered for Equine Assisted Transitions. This is a wonderful program for the children, families and soldiers in our community ran at the barn we board our horses at. They have a web page at www.equineassistedtransitions.com that you can get more information. The girls absolutely love volunteering for this. I have mostly been amazed at Faith's excitement in it. She was up before sunrise yesterday and did not want to leave. Her passion for helping others with any sort of problem is fascinating to me. No matter how much she is hurting or not feeling good she can always muster up the strength or courage to help another child or animal. It is a tough commitment for me to promise our time for, but it is so wonderful to see my children give countless hours towards something good. Tess at 12 years of age is trusted enough to prepare all the horses and even lead people around. Faith is always wanted around because of her smile that never seems to go away. If only they see what her parents have seen. But it is so fun to watch them do something together that makes them both happy. We just have to wait for our littlest cowgirl Abbi to be old enough. So Faith is doing well. We are getting closer to the summer when we will meet our new family member. I am going next week to draw a loan for the remaining amount for the service dog. We will still be able to do some fund raising over the next 10 months before I deploy and get some of the money back. Regardless of how it works itself out we are going to get this dog for Faith. I know it will help out and I never want to look back and think that there may have been something else I could have done to help her out that I did not do. Kris