In So Many Words

Thank you to all of those who commented on my New Year’s post. I appreciate you all so much!

I actually ended my year with a fun-filled trip to the vet, complete with cats escaping from the carrier before I could get them out to the car and lugging said carrier with 27 lbs of cat inside into the building for their exams.

We were there quite a while, and after much exploration, Wallace and Willow found an empty cabinet that they seemed to like! (Sorry about all the shadows; I am not much of a camera person and this was on my itouch anyway.)

Michael started the year with a new reward menu at school. We have increased the time it takes to earn a checkmark from six minutes to ten, but we also cut the point value of all rewards in half and added some new rewards that he seems quite excited about.

One of the new options is to help with the morning announcements, and he spent a good chunk of the week earning this. He was so excited about it, and he did a great job! The first picture is of Michael reading the opening lines before turning it over to one of the seasoned vets, and the second is all three of the kids saying in unison, “Let’s all be Paxtang Proud!”

You all are probably already tired of seeing pictures of our cats, but I wanted to show off the first purchase we made with money from selling stuff on Craigslist! (That’s Willow lying on top of the little cave, and Wallace coming over to see if she wants to play.)

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I had shared back in March that we adopted a cat from a family in our church. Well, a couple of months later, they asked if we would consider also taking his sister. We agreed to take her on a trial basis and worried a bit as she was hissing and fighting with her brother whenever he would try to approach.

But slowly they have been becoming friends again, and have even deigned to share a sleeping spot with each other occasionally!

Wallace (aka Stubby) and Willow (aka Afi):

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