She is home

She is home.
The moment I have been waiting for so long. Fiona came here on my birthday....and what a present it was. She is adjusting well, happy, healthy and has plenty of dapples.. She rolls, she sleeps laying down like a little bunny in the warm sun. She is making friends with the fam and the dogs....chases the tractor and whinnies when I come with hay. It is truly unreal to me - like a dream. Chef built a garden shed last year to be used for, yes the garden, who knew.... it has become my tack room. I have made a beautiful arena to ride in and train her, planted aspen and roses around the fence.

No matter rain or shine we work- I have been lunging her in torrential rain storms that we have been having lately until we are both sopping wet. Grooming her in the warm sun- till she shines so beautifully, practicing my "old man walk" (if you watched the Buck movie you know what I am talking about) we are bonding.

I have been riding my trainers horses to get my stamina back ready to begin riding Fiona this month, (she makes it all look so easy) and has been working with me in the rain and the wind...I feel like I have been training for the Olympics...I so appreciate her dedication to me and getting Fiona ready.

2 days before my birthday the last day Fiona was at the stables- she surprised me and said

"Today is the day".

I rode her for the first time.

Imagine having the most beautiful present in the world, lovely packaged in brightly colored paper and beautiful  ribbon...but never opening it, just loving it for what it was. Well, I did get to open my present- by riding her, I cried the whole time...my trainer just laughed.

I feel as if I am 12 again.

Blowing out my candles on my birthday cake this year I wished for all of my families dreams to come true.

Mine had.

This is not just about having a horse- this is getting back something that I thought I had lost-
Me. 

How can you wish for anything more when your dreams have come true?