I wanted to thank all of you for your support and kindness that you have shown me. Not only of late, but all through the year. For the cat food deliveries when we were down to only being able to feed Special Kitty. Still trying to figure out what is so Special about that brand as my cats barely touched it.

Thank you for the cards after his passing, the flowers, the cat food, the small gifts that showed me how much you love and care for all. Thank you for the emails, the private letters and please bare with me, I will try and put my books in order and send you all your tax donation letters in the next week or so.

My whole world has just crumbled and yet life will go on. We still have cats that demand that I get up every day and not give in to the crippling of the emotion that now holds me. Molly has been my constant not allowing me any time to myself to give in to the despair I feel most of the time now.

I took her the vet because during the night of his passing, she somehow got caught inside the security door and the front door and I didn’t discover her until later. She was walking a bit wonky and vomiting, but Ben took films and said nothing was broken she was just bruised and tender. I had to laugh at her because she spent most of the time at the vet on my shoulders! It was as if she thought that if she stayed up on mom’s shoulders, nothing could hurt her.

Thank you all of you for your outpouring of love. I wish all of you the most beautiful Christmas this year. Please know that if I don’t contact you personally, the gifts you sent me helped to begin the healing and all of you are so special and remarkable people. It is my privilege to call you friends.