Relax…


August 22, 2008

RIP Shaft. We love you

10:07 pm

Our kitty died tonight, in my arms.  It was all so fast and surreal, nothing I have ever experienced before.  One minute Nathan and I were talking about how we needed to take him back to the vet next week, and that I was going to force feed him, and the next minute he had a seizure or something in my lap, peed and was gone after a few gasps.  We burried him in Nathan’s parents back yard and had a goodbye ceremony led by Johanna.

Nathan and I got Shaft two weeks after we got married.  He was the best cat I have ever had.  Playful, gentle, cuddly, patient with the kids.  He was still young, not even 8 years old.  We never had a definitive answer about what was making him so sick the past few months, but we are grateful that God made the decision to take him so that we didn’t have to question later whether it was the right time.

Goodbye Shaft, we will miss you terribly.

August 13, 2008

Soccer Girl

9:56 pm

Today was Joey’s first soccer practice.  She did pretty good.  Most of the other girls have played at least one year and she has never played, so I think she kept up pretty well.  Accept for the part where she sat down in the middle of the team scrimmage and started picking clovers while the ball whizzed past her head unnoticed.  Well, I guess we have some work to do and some laziness to deal with.  Good times.