Kids and their Ponies

I love my Pony, I really, really do but there's something special about the way a little girl can love a pony that's different than the way I do. They don't see the flaws (would literally kill for an apple and has bucking fits in new places) just how awesome they are. And my Pony is awesome. She really does try, and is always brave for me, and she even tolerates all the silly costumes I dress her in.

She loved her Halloween costume... 

At my barn there's a little girl who's older sister has a horse who is just in love with my Pony. She asks to ride her almost every day and I just can't say no. Not when they get along so well. Its always been a dream of mine to find a little kid to lease Pony and take her to shows and love her just as much as I do and this little girl just might be the one. After all, Pony seems to like kids more than me most days.

Couldn't have anything to do with the hats...

Since she loves Pony so much she's riding her in the schooling show the barn is putting on this month and a day or two ago she told me it was the best birthday present ever. I, being a giant sap of a person, almost cried from pride. To think that three years ago my little girl was deemed unfit for a lesson program and sold to me by people who didn't think she was worth much and probably would have auctioned her off to who knows where if I hadn't bought her. Now she's loved by men and by many children and one of the best horses we have in our lesson program.

I can't wait to see her ridden by this little girl in the show, I might actually cry when I do see it, and I can't wait to see where she takes me and every other little girl who loves her just as much as I do next. Everyone who has a horse thinks their horses is the greatest one in the world, and I know that in the grand scheme of things she isn't that special, but to me she's worth anything and everything.