How Buddy combats Seasonal Affective Disorder!

I think my cat is depressed and feeling down from lack of sunshine. It is gray and dreary where we live.

Several times a day you can find Buddy sitting up in the lamp. He is one smart kitty!

It's been a busy summer!!! And new additions to our family.........

It's been too long since I've blogged. De'Etta linked to my blog a couple weeks ago, and well, I better blog if people are going to be coming, eh?

Since I've last blogged I've been so busy! Summer has flown by and now it's time to think about start school and getting back into somewhat of a normal routine........

In July I drove to the other side of PA and hopped a ride with my girlfriend and we went on to VA to visit another girlfriend. I met both these ladies on the Sonlight forums. They came campign with us in June! We were going to a pool party meet-up in VA, where I met many, many great ladies and their cute kiddos! We had a great time staying with Dana. We stayed up too late, got up too early, and had such a great time.

We've spent a lot of time at the lake. The cabin has not yet sold, though it is still on the market. We spent a few nights on different weeks then stayed the entire first week of August like we always do. Doug had to work until Thursday, and it was not so much fun vacationing without him. Jordan had to work some and so he came back and forth. My family is growing up and moving on and it is weird. It is Jordan's last year of school and it seems we just started hs'ing. We'll be starting our 13th year on Sept. 3rd!!! WHERE did the time go?

My friend Jen moved from one part of PA to another, and so I drove my big teen boys out to help her husband unload the truck. Isn't it great when your imaginary friends help you move??

I organized a SL meet-up at a local lake in Aug., and that was great fun. Jen and her kids came from PA to stay with us and go to the meet-up. I just love that I have real friends that live in my computer :)

And I've gone to visit Jen for a few days, which was again so much fun.

Doug and I are still adjusting to his crazy work schedule. It's been 1 1/2 years, and you'd think I'd be used to it. I guess I am, but I am going through a period of it being really hard and really hating it. God is stretching me right now, and I am resisting. I'd like my old life back, thank you very much LOL.

Five weeks ago we had 5 new additions to our family. Lilly had another litter of kittens. That brings our cat total to TEN!!! We do not want ten kitties and are trying to find them homes, although not very successfully. I'm not sure what we're going to do with them.

But they are pretty darn cute! They are now out of the box and walking all over, learning to eat and use the litter box and are pretty much toddlers.

Lilly's first litter is now 5 months old. We need homes for them, too.

So we have Buddy our 5 year old kittie, Lilly the mama kitty, Newman (g), Shadow (b) and Leroy (b) the five month old kitties and George (b), Jerry (b), Kramer (b), Phil (b), and Yaya (g) the 5 week old kitties. If you notice a Seinfeld theme going on, you are correct :::snort:::

Here are the kitties at about 3 weeks learning to walk.
A basket full of kitties. They love to lay in the sunrays.
Newman, the 5 month old kittie, decided she is NOT too old to nurse!!! Only in my house would we have tandem nursing kitties LOL.
So that is life here. How is life where you are??

Cuteness Alert!!!!

The babies are 2 weeks old today. What is NOT to love about little balls of fluffy cuteness?

Leroy is a whopping 13 oz., Shadow weighs in a 12 oz, and the little girlm Newman, is the smallest at 11 oz. Their eyes are opening and they are just so DARN CUTE! They try to stand up, but wobble and fall over. They are so fun to snuggle. I hold Newman while reading aloud. She snuggles up under my chin and sleeps :)

Newman sleeping

LeRoy and his deep blue eyes!
Newman snuggling with Isaac
Shadow! His eyes almost match his fur. He's so darn cute!

IT'S BABY DAY!!!!!

I put food beside the nesting box. Lilly would not go into the kitchen to eat LOL. But she will jump out for a couple minutes and growl the entire time she is eating LOL. So I quickly snapped this picture of the babies. They are just SO adorable!

We have been anxiously awaiting Lilly's day of delivery for a couple weeks now. I wasn't quite sure when she became "with kitten", because I do not even remember her being in heat.

She LOVES to be at my feet while I'm on the computer. So we put a nesting box under the computer a couple weeks ago so she could get used to it. She pretty much ignored it LOL.

Last night she started going in and out of it a lot. So I figured we were getting close. Her tummy was rolling like a choppy sea, and that was fun to watch. I figured she'd have her babies while we were in bed.

But she waited for us. I woke up to icky stuff all over the bathroom sink (she sleeps in there at night?!?!?!) and on the kitchen floor, so really knew it was close. Nobody wanted to do school, but we couldn't just sit and stare at her LOL. So we read aloud on the couch and then they were on the living room floor doing school, or at least putting in the appearance of school LOL.

We have 3 sweet little babes. They look just like her. Two are dark gray and one is light gray. It is hard to see them, but they are in the pictures :)

Just minutes after the first one was born. She was cleaning it up.

Resting with the 3 of them. See how they kinda just blend in??
This would have been a PERFECT shot, but at the last

second she put her paw over the babe's head!

A clearer shot.
Tucker is quite interested in the little mewing sounds. And he wants to sniff them up. But he hasn't gotten too close, or Lilly isn't afraid of him LOL. Buddy, the other cat, seems miffed!

So that is our sweet news of the day :)

Tucker loves the lake, too!