All These Babies
Miss Fluttershy came and held each baby and let her big sister take the pictures. This cute thing is mostly black with a white chin and white feet.
Usually we have two or three striped kitties, but in this batch we only have this one little sweetie.
This one is mostly black with a milk mustache and white toes. So adorable!
We have two black and white babies. This one with a white face…
this one with a hilarious black nose!!
Happy one week birthday sweet kitties.
Somebody’s Mother
My father had a scrapbook that he kept all kinds of cards and letters in from when he was younger. Now and then, he would take it out and read aloud some of the poems that were pasted on the yellow pages.
One particular verse that was a favorite of his, was one called “Somebody’s Mother” and each time he read it, he would get all choked up and his eyes would fill with tears.
He loved his little Scottish mother. She became blind when he was a younger man and did need help quite often. This poem always reminded him of her, and made him cry.
Her name was Agnes Porter Johnston Kirby.
She passed away before I was born, but the stories he used to tell about her made us grateful for her strong heart and brave example of a faithful wife and mother. It helped us love her too.
I’m excited to meet her someday.
The Reading Challenge
We have the cutest little used book store in Provo.
Every year, they have a reading challenge. The idea is that you read a book from each category…
and check them off as you go along.
There are 40 topics to check off and yes, that IS a ton of books to read in one year.
But if you are able to read the forty books and check off each of the boxes in a year’s time–they will give you a $50 gift certificate….
to buy MORE books!! Woooohoooo!!!!
Honestly now, if somebody close by is going to offer free books just for READING books, wellllllll….
I think it’s fair to say…
I’m IN!
Twenty-one down…
nineteen to go.
Awwww…
Look what we have!!! Five tiny, sweet babies!
Right after they were born, they were in such a piled up tangle, that I had trouble seeing exactly how many there were.
Turns out, there are five. We have two blacks with white chins, one stripe and two black and white mixed–including this little black nose cutie.
Of course, Mama Dali and babies are all doing great…
and you know, I’m always happy about it!
Heh, heh.