I've been sick for a couple days and stayed home from work today. The kittens have always been such good nurses and today was no exception. I am reflecting on how much I love them and how grateful I am to have them in my life.
Joni especially has been so sweet and full of purrsonality today. She wants to snuggle so bad that she has been my shadow all day, even when I have wanted some space. She loves to sit across my chest with her head on my shoulder - I would try to pick her up and put her down on the bed, but she would dig in with her nails and press her head against my neck - how on earth could I resist those snuggles?! My mom has been by a few times as well to bring provisions, and when she would knock Joni would run to answer the door - it has full-length windows with blinds over them, and Joni would push her head through the blinds and stand-up on her hind legs, meowing to greet my mom. My little butler!
I think back to when she was a kitten and was living with my friend, and how my friend always talked about how annoying and aggressive she was - how she kept them up at night, was too rough with their elderly dog, etc. I think how she was going to send Joni to a shelter and I think about her odds for being adopted, and I am just so grateful that I have her all to myself, that all her snuggles are for me, all her kisses with her sweet, cold wet nose are for me, all the joy of her sweet face and green eyes - it's mine, all mine! For giving up Joni, my friend's life is so much the worse, and mine the better.
I can't forget my boys of course - both have curled up with me in bed all day, and they have all been very well-behaved - I only had to yell a few times!
Thanks to TCS for being the one place I can come to be among friends and those who understand my crazy connection with my cats!
Joni especially has been so sweet and full of purrsonality today. She wants to snuggle so bad that she has been my shadow all day, even when I have wanted some space. She loves to sit across my chest with her head on my shoulder - I would try to pick her up and put her down on the bed, but she would dig in with her nails and press her head against my neck - how on earth could I resist those snuggles?! My mom has been by a few times as well to bring provisions, and when she would knock Joni would run to answer the door - it has full-length windows with blinds over them, and Joni would push her head through the blinds and stand-up on her hind legs, meowing to greet my mom. My little butler!
I think back to when she was a kitten and was living with my friend, and how my friend always talked about how annoying and aggressive she was - how she kept them up at night, was too rough with their elderly dog, etc. I think how she was going to send Joni to a shelter and I think about her odds for being adopted, and I am just so grateful that I have her all to myself, that all her snuggles are for me, all her kisses with her sweet, cold wet nose are for me, all the joy of her sweet face and green eyes - it's mine, all mine! For giving up Joni, my friend's life is so much the worse, and mine the better.
I can't forget my boys of course - both have curled up with me in bed all day, and they have all been very well-behaved - I only had to yell a few times!
Thanks to TCS for being the one place I can come to be among friends and those who understand my crazy connection with my cats!
