Life is going on.....

A little bit more than a week has passed until we lost Moritz. I am thinking about him every single day and although we are still sad about the loss, the pain is getting better.

In the memory of Moritz we have taken the three little babies inside and call them our own. Yeah, we first wanted to find places for them, but I'm glad we didn't. These three little guys are so connected to each other, it would have killed us to tare them apart and give them away. It was already very painful to loose Moritz, but it would have been additionally painful to also loose these adorable little guys.

The move was very easy - for us and for them. The first days I had them in my bathroom to get them used to their new home, now they are already exploring the house and they mostly play in the living room where it is bright all day and where they have enough room to run - and they do! From the living room to the kitchen, into the dining room, further into the hallway and into our big laundry room/office. They really enjoy that big playground that they have now and don't make any effort any more to get outside. Momma Kitty has seen her babies inside our house (through our glass storm dorm) and it seems like she agrees that we take care of her babies. And the babies are not searching or squeaking for her any more - they have accepted their new Mommy and Daddy - and their new "siblings" Snaps, Laces and Cutie. Especially Cutie is happy to have playbuddies again and sometimes it even looks like he is slipping into the role of being their "Cat Daddy" - he is cleaning them, they sleep some times together - snuggled next to each other.

It is great joy and fun to watch the little ones. They are growing fast right now - especially the runt Mephisto. God, he can eat! He is always the first at the food bowl and he even emptys the plates of the other ones.

Since yesterday all three are starting to spend more time also downstairs in our bedroom suite - especially when David and I are there. It was most likely Cutie who led them downstairs - we had some thunderstorms lately and Cutie is very scared about the thunder. So he hides into our closet downstairs and the little ones follow him, although they obviously aren't scared a little bit about thunderstorms. In fact yesterday, after David came home from work, we had a big one - but the babies were together with us in the living room, playing, while Cutie was hiding downstairs to get away from thunder and lightening.

And Mephisto was even sleeping next to the open window while it was storming outside...
It looks like all three are very happy in their new home - and we are happy that we have them with us. It was the right decision, although we have more babies inside now than we always wanted. But they need us, they know that they are loved here and that's what they need for a happy and unstressful life - in comparison to a life outside...... Moritz would agree and I know that he is happy as well with this solution. All three are so alike him that we very often wonder if he had not been their biological Daddy.....


On my family's front: my daughter has arrived in Dunedin/New Zealand where she will practice at the University hospital there. It's one of the last big steps for her medicine study.
It is obviously winter time over there - hard to imagine while we have a hot and sunny summer here, spending a lot of time outside on the deck, on the porch or in the swimmingpool. Michaela told me that it's freezing over there and the house where she and her studying friend are currently living in has no furnace. Life is very expensive over there - even for European people! So they will take advantage of the fact that they will be provided with food and all kinds of other free stuff at the University. Other than that she says that New Zealand is a beautiful country, the people are very nice and helpful and it's a great experience so far.

My Mom is doing pretty good, she only has a few more radiation therapies left - thankfully, because it's also very hot and humid in Europe right now.

On the home front: David is searching for a new job and it looks like he's about to get a new one. I'm keeping my fingers crossed right now, he's having an interview this morning and I'm waiting for his call to hear the result..........

Life is getting better and we for sure enjoy every single new day.