Anything But Gray

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The day after the post about the kitty, her owner found her and she's gone back home to her owner's. 🙂

Ceci and I were on the porch chatting before she left for work and Lilly (AKA Sassy) was chillin' in the driveway and a woman with a stroller full of kids, starts talking to her…"Sassy…you've got to go home! Where have you been?" And the kids all start calling Sassy! Sassy! 

I walked down to her and we started chatting and I told her about how the kitty showed up and just wouldn't leave! Turns out, they thought a bear had got her! They live down the street and a bear had been in the neighborhood and right around then is when their kitty disappeared…so needless to say they were thrilled to see her! 

Knowing Jaime was going to be heartbroken, me and the mom started talking and I was going to ask her if I could bring Jaime down to say hi once in awhile but before I could,  she mentioned she had a daughter that went to the same school as the kids go. They are in the same class!!! And get this….she has a son Ben's age….who's in Ben's class! LOL  I was really happy about that because I knew Jaime would feel better about the kitty being gone if she knew she could go see her and visit her if she wanted.  Which wound up being the case…she was heartbroken at first, but when they all came to get the kitty and Jaime started hanging out with her friend and Ben started playing with his  friend, it was all fine. Jaime walked down to their house, holding the kitty and her son stayed here and played with Ben for a bit. Then Ben and Ashton (what an awesome name, huh??) walked back to Ashton's house.  Jaime and Ben both stayed down there for a bit and they were both in good spirits when they came home.

All in all, she took it well.  Both Zak and I were a teeny bit bummed. This was a cool friggin' cat! lol But we promised Jaime when we go back we'd get her a kitty cat. 🙂

Hopefully that will hold her over !!!!

Last week a kitty showed up at the house. The kids (Jaime especially) loved her and played with her pretty much all day.  This kitty kept hanging around and I didn't want to feed her because I didn't want to make her stay…if she had a home, I wanted her to go home!  When she first showed up here, she was hiding under one of the cars in the driveway and a little kid that was walking down the street said to Jaime and Ben,"That's my cat, can you get him out from under the car?" So Jaime and Ben tried and she wouldn't come out and the kid left. He didn't say where he lived or anything!

Eventually she did come out and that's when the kids started playing with her.

After she was here over a day and a half,  I decided I was going to feed her…poor thing.  The kid that had been walking down the street, never came back…no one else was looking for a cat and we checked Craig's list and still no lost cat. She's been here about a week, outside…but Ceci let us use Pacino's little kennel for him and she found a kitty bad that we have up on the porch for her, so she's been fine just being outside. 

She is such a cute kitty! I'm gonna have to get a picture.  Not only does she look cute, she acts cute! When you hold her sometimes she'll wrap her paws around your neck and hug. Seriously, honest to God, HUG. So. Friggin'. Cute!!!!

We bought her some food that she loves and she's also already caught a mouse and two little birds. One was a really pretty yellow finch….that bummed me out, that bird was pretty! LOL And she brings the animals she's catching, here….so you know this is now "home" to her! Jaime named her Lily and we all like it, too. 🙂

So yeah….we're so keeping this kitty if no one claims her!!!!! LOL

It didn't even occur to me to blog about Amy Winehouse….until I saw this picture of her with her mom….

It's tragic, it's sad and it's a damn shame….such an utter waste.

But when I saw this picture what I realized was taht through all the fame, the acclaim, the tabloid headlines….it gets forgotten that at the end of the day, this incredibly talented and tortured woman was someone's daughter…and they have just lost their baby….

This picture made me teary.  So many chances to save her and no one could and now her parents will go to bed every night, with their hearts' broken…: (

Sad….

So much has been going on, it's just been CRAAAAZY!!!!

Things are all happening so fast and I'll explain more over the next couple of weeks….but for now, I wanted to post this.  Ann and the kids have moved up here…YAY!!!….and last night Billiejo and her family (except Mikey…boo-hoo! would've been nice to see him too..) stopped by, so we rounded up all of the kids for a picture.

Most of you know this but I'm going to explain a little for the people who don't.  Me, my brother and sister grew up very close to our 3 cousins, Billiejo, Freddy and Sean. We grew up like brothers and sisters, more than cousins.  Our adult lives have kept us pretty far apart, in physical miles. Emotionally we have always remained tight and now, finally, our physical miles have become closer, too. 

We always grew up just assuming we would all live close and our children would grow up together, the way we did.  Well..it didn't quite work out that way and we have very few pictures of our children, together.  So last night, them stopping by was so awesome because it gave us the chance to get this picture….

This is the most of our children that we have had together, at one time. 

Now THIS….this makes my heart so very happy.

🙂