Katie Cat

May 2016 

Ok, so the thing is early in the year I went on a field trip to the local SPCA with A.J. and her PreK class.  And they had cats.  

And I did not have a cat anymore.

And I like cats.

Sure they shed and sometimes scratch or even bite and their litter boxes are annoying but they're soft and squishy and fuzzy and cute.

K.C. and Chase had been gone for several years and I'd been bugging Matt for a new cat for sometime.  He always firmly said no.

But then the last week of school he went on a trip to SERBIA of all places for work and left me to fend for myself with all three kids.  

Hahahahahah.

Now before you go thinking I am all sorts of evil, I will tell you all straight away that Matt and I facetimed multiple times a day during his trip and I told him I was going to get a cat.  And he asked maybe that I don't but he also knew he couldn't stop me so he just asked me to get a nice one and maybe not spend a gazillion dollars.

DONE.

So the kids and I headed out and after carefully considering ever. single. feline animal in the place we came home with the very best of the bunch.  

She's kind of a mottled tiger cat stripe of orange and yellows and brown.  She's sweet and playful and also a very wild little animal.  After some debate, the kids and I named her Katie.  Katie Cat. Hahahah.  

The dogs are coming to terms with her existence.

The kids are enamored.  They like to read her stories.  Lucy had to take a nap with her the first day.