It's All In The Details...........

So I'm in the middle of a crazy work day with customers telling me I don't have enough of this and the other customers telling me I have too much of that, when an urgent phone call comes in from my daughter saying.......MOMMYMOMMYYOUHAVETOCALLRIGHTNOWBEFORESOMEONEELSEGETSTHECAT!!! In our world that should read as, "Mommy, Mommy, you have to call right now before someone else gets the cat." It turns out that my daughter's friend, Sabrina, had just adopted a 3 month old kitten. Sabrina was having a birthday party in a few weeks and the first person to rsvp got to "sponsor" the kitten. So my daughter was begging me to drop everything and to please call and rsvp to this party before anyone else did. Now, I love a little 3 month old kitten as much as the next person, and when I heard the word "sponsor" to me that meant taking care from afar, mentoring, perhaps actually spending bits and pieces of time together, so that all sounded good to me so without asking any additional questions I stopped what I was doing and made the call.

Sabrina's mother answered by saying, "Ha, I knew it would be you that called first, I'm so glad, but I can't talk right now I'm just walking into my office I'll call you later and give you all the details." Details??? I remember thinking, what kinds of details are needed to spend a little bit of time with a kitty, oh well, whatever. So I went about my day and then later that evening Sabrina's mom calls me and says , "okay, let me give you all the dates.....we will be leaving on the 6th and returning on the 16th." Wondering why the heck she was telling me this, I replied, "oh that's nice, where will you be going?" She told me where they were headed off to and then added the tiny detail of, "oh, so we'll drop the cat off to you the morning of the 6th." WHAT?!?! When my daughter told me we were sponsoring a cat I had no idea that meant babysitting the little codger for 10 days. I, myself would be moving the week prior to that, as well as the fact that I already have two cats of my own and who knew if they would all get along. But, I chalked the whole thing up as my fault and made a huge mental note that when a 12 yr old is asking for something that involves calling someone else's mother it may be wise to get a LOT more details first.

So, today we are on our last day with little Allegra, and as funny as it would be to tell you all the mishaps of this little kitty I'll just leave you with these few photos. This is really the cutest thing I've ever seen, and this morning as I was contemplating how much I was going to miss this little being and maybe it was time to get a new little kitty ourselves again, Allegra was nice enough to pee directly on my brand new pillow, thus reminding me that two cats is already more than enough for this household.