The Oncoming Storm
I came home yesterday. It was nice to be back with my girls. To cuddle with my cats, and my wife wife. I had a puppy laying on me as I watched my TV, and went to sleep in my bed with my wife.
This morning I followed my usual routine, of morning coffee talking to my wife (in real, live, face to face talks – not messaging) and then went to my study to do some work. I wrote all morning, pouring out more of he fifth novel, and now am doing my usual social media updates. Life is back to how it should be and it is good.
The one thing that was different than usual – yesterday, we went over to my in-laws and saw the brand new (hours old) kittens. The kittens were an unexpected occurrence. My mother-in-law got two new cats from a friend, of a friend, of a… One male, one female, both less than a year old. They were outdoor, ‘barn’ cats, who quickly adapted to indoor life, as indoors turned out to be warm and filled with soft things.
It didn’t take much time to realize that the female was pregnant. Now two new cats, has turned into six new cats. And so… we will be taking home one of these little ‘darlings’ to add to our own brood. We have picked the dark tabby, and I have named it ‘Storm’. It sort of looks like the dark clouds that roll in as a storm approaches, it is a good gender neutral name, and secretly, we all know that ‘Storm’ is short form for ‘Stormaggedon’. If you don’t know that reference – go the forth and educate yourself…thoroughly, episode by episode until you are inundated.
It will be a while yet before Storm comes home, but that only means we have time to prepare ourselves for the ‘oncoming storm’ the little one will be, and to try and save the money necessary for the shots, and making sure we don’t continue the cycle of unexpected motherhood.
Yes – I know… we are crazy. But what’s the point of living in the middle of nowhere, being home all the time, if not to do silly things like have too many animals?
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