Saturday was a bitter sweet day for our family. We were reunited with our children after a 5 day separation. Rich and I were in Colorado Springs (gorgeous!) for a mission leaders conference and the kids stayed behind with two amazing families. What a gift it was to get away for that long! So, Saturday was a good day. I missed our kids and was unbelievably excited to see them again. We did lots and lots of snuggling… Grace has turned into quite a snuggler and I love it! Saturday afternoon I had to make the decision to put our family cat, Mrs. Woolworth, to sleep. It was a very sad decision… and it was painful. She was part of our family from the very beginning. We loved her dearly and miss her. Grace cried. She was so sweet and loving about it all. The finality of it all hit her hard and she just wept. Genuine mournful tears. It broke my heart to have my girl feel such pain for the first time. After our friend Sue came and picked her up for us (she works at a veterinarian office) Grace was sitting on the floor flipping through a book with constant tears streaming down her cheeks. A real picture of raw pain. Becca didn’t understand. Today she was asking me when the cat was coming back. Poor girl. It was definitely for the best though. I loved that cat.
Mrs. Woolworth
she was a sweet cat despite the "evil eyes" in this photo.Grace with Woolworth 2006
Woolworth allowing Becca to try to eat her fur. She was good with the kids.
Haha - Becca put her in Noah's jumperoo. She just laid there until I picked her up.
Woolworth being protective of Noah when he was a newborn.
