Kitties are cleaning up this year! The elves just sent them puzzle boxes, cat posts, food, toys, a cat hammock and more trac balls. They are in heaven (and for the first time all year I mean that in a good way!) They already figured out how to disengage the toys from the pegs on the bunkbed and the play room and the toys quickly vanished inside the wooden puzzle box. I have angry birds all over the house with the kitties stalking these balls as if they really are birds of prey.
Roscoe went inside after the disappearing flutterby and challenged me to dare to stick my hand in and put it back on the peg!I declined the challenge!
Mike went back to his wound care specialist today and I am pleased to report that his legs aren’t as swollen or as “colorful” as before AND he has lost three pounds! He isn’t keen on his new eating program, but I told him if he doesn’t stick with it- I won’t be sticking around and watching him die.
Is that cruel? Probably, but it needed to be said. I love him to much to see him fail at life now. I think it stunned him, but he could tell I was serious…deadly serious.
Sometimes you have to be cruel. Meanwhile, congrats to the kitties and God Bless Santas….all of them!
Marian in Houston
Cruel yes, but you are correct it needed to be said. when my father passed away it got to be a lot for my mother, I understand that, they were together 36 years. She said she was going to take her own life. I had to be tough, I told her to go ahead and do it, but just know that from that day forward my daughter would be the first on in the house, and that she would have that over her head. To know her granddaughter would find her was more than the grief of losing my father. Tough love can be tough on both sides! but good for you!
So Glad for the kitties and good for Mike 3 lbs! that is awesome!!
I agree with the other commentors. You do have to be tough sometimes. The tendency to let things slide by with the ones we love doesn’t do them any favors. We think we’re being loving, or helpful but actually we’re enabling them to continue to do the wrong things. Good for you for being serious. And good for Mike for paying attention to what you said. However small, I am glad there is some progress!
Yes, I’m afraid it had to be said to Mike. He has to stick to his new diet. I wouldn’t like it, either, but as strange as it is for me to say it, there are some things in life worth staying alive for besides food.