Suburban Goddess

My sister-in-law was heading out of town for the weekend, and asked if I would watch her current foster kids; a group of five kittens and their calico mother. Thinking I would have Alex part of the time, I agreed, but as things turn out, she’s spent more time with her father.

There is nothing that can erase a bad day like coming home to a house full of kittens. They are so ridiculously cute that the tension of the day melts away as you watch them swat at one another with tiny, unsure paws. (I think my sister-in-law is trying to convince me to foster animals. I think if that is her plan, it’s working.) It just kills me to think if someone hadn’t taken in these tiny little creatures, that they would die simply because they existed. As each little personality emerges, I marvel at how much I’ve changed as a person… watching the mother tend lovingly to each baby means more now than it did before I became a mother.

In the meantime, I’ve had some truly interesting photo shoots. There’s some merit in that “herding cats” cliché. Maybe I’ll get lucky. Or just wait until they go to sleep.

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