LeeAnne - I am weeping as I read this. I feel for you and Bob, but I also just lost one, am am poised to lose the ultimate special one, who is 14.
It might be weird, but my family is important, and is sort of there, somewhere, but the special 'schnookums' has been sitting on my lap for 14 years - guess who will leave the biggest whole in my heart.
Thinking of you and Bob.
Tears,
Mike