KITTENS, KITTENS, KITTENS

Okay so I haven't posted in quite awhile so since I have the boys in bed I figured why not now.

Ian has barracks duty tonight which I so don't understand, they have enough guy's that live in the barracks to cover a months worth of duty, but no they make the married guy's that live in housing or even off base do it too. UGH!!! So I have been alone with the kiddos all day and it has been extremely HOT so we stayed in our p.j's and watched T.V. most of the day. I also did some spelling/vocabulary with Triston. He now knows how to spell 10 words that he didn't know at the beginning of the week. I was trying to do a review with him while I was giving the boy's a bath and he said "Mom, I don't need to do homework in the bathtub!!" I guess he's right since they aren't even doing the words in class yet, I just want him to be a little ahead instead of behind.

On another note we have been swarmed with kittens, (poor hubby) literaly. The first one was when I was out walking one night about 2 1/2 weeks ago with my neighbor, her dog scared a cat away across the main street by our house. We saw a kitten there but figured that we should leave it alone because the momma would probably come back. Well I went home and told Ian about it and about 30 minutes later the two of us went over to where they were. It was still light enough to see so we looked around for a bit and then we heard the tiniest little mew. The kitten was still alone and right by a gas building hiding in some bushes. With a little coaxing we got the kitten to come out from the bushes. She looked like she was 5-6 weeks old and she was really close to the road so we decided to keep her. We brought her home and she has been a wonderful addition to our family. When we first brought her home we thought she was a he (we are still not 100% sure on this one) so her name is Aslan.

So that takes care of kitten number 1...

About a week later on a Wednesday, I got up and was getting the kids ready to take Triston to school. Our two older cats (Koda and Bear) were by the back door looking out the window. I figured there was a stray cat out side because there almost always is, but I looked out there anyway. Up on top of our retaining wall right next to a box was 2 kittens that didn't look much older than Aslan. I figured that I would just keep going on about my day and that the mom would come back to them. Well by noon there had been no sight of mom and it was getting VERY HOT and I was pretty sure they were hungry. My next door neighbors were in there back yard so I enlisted them to help. What I thought was 2 kittens was actually 4. We got them, and brought them inside only to discover that they were COVERED in ticks, like hundreds of little deer ticks. So my neighbors being as nice as they are helped me give them all baths in flea & tick shampoo, in my downstairs bathroom sink. In a room that is 5ft x 5ft we had 4 adults and 4 kittens, oh what a sight.

So now I had 4 kittens that I needed to figure out what to do with. I called shelters and since it's kitten season everywhere was full. When my hubby got home he couldn't breathe, so my neighbor's up the street kept them over night and I had to have them gone the next day. Well I took them in to the humane society and one of the first thing's out of the woman's mouth was that they were going to be euthanized. So I took them back home with me. My neighbor's agreed to keep them for a week so that I could find homes or no kill shelters for them. One of my other neighbor's heard about this and she decided to take 2 of them. I put the other 2 on craigslist and hoped that somebody would be interested. I got three e-mails the next morning but they never followed through. so I put another posting up and got an e-mail back from a lady that was very interested, she came out to see them (4 days later) but decided to adopt one from a shelter. Then I posted another post in a last hope and got a response from a lady that lived up in D.C. but didn't have a car. We made arrangement's to go up there on Saturday and she adopted both of them. I am very glad that they all found good homes, but I could go for quite awhile without seeing another kitten (except Aslan of course).

Well that's all I'm going to write about now because I think this is long enough....