Ms-Whitney {DOT} Com

On January 7th, we said our final goodbye to our much loved pet and family member, TC. She lived an amazing 21 years and had a very happy life. I miss her so much already, but it was time. I know that’s very cliche to say but it was true.

She was first brought to our family by my sister. I was 2 at the time, and she was 7. She had told her friends mom that our mom said she could bring home a kitten. The truth was my sister never even mentioned a thing to my mother because she knew my mom would say no! Once the kitten was in our home, there was no way my mother was going to make her leave. She was from then on, family.

Like other pets my sister had, she couldn’t come up with a name. My mother gave her a few days to come up with a name, but my sister couldn’t decide. My mother decided to name her TC2 which stands for That Cat, and 2 because my mother had a cat in the past also named TC. We called her T for short.

She wanted to be an indoor cat, although my mother had other ideas. So she spent many of her days, sleeping under bushes outside our house, or finding a way to get back outside. She was very sneaky and could con her way back into the house without a blink. She was a lazy, fat cat, in her youth. I called her my little chicken because when she was laying down, she would tuck in her legs and her tail and look like a little chicken sitting on her nest.

Her greatest job was watching over my nephew. One day my sister laid my nephew Owen on my bed to take a nap. When he woke up we heard giggling and laughing and ran in to see what he was up to only to find T snuggling up with him, purring. They where best friends from the start.


She went quick, pain free, and purring. We will be getting her ashes back in a few weeks. Come spring time we will have a ceremony, and bury her in the back yard. My nephew has decided he wants to plant a catnip plant in memory of her. He was her best friend.

I used a pre-made layout simply because I just haven’t found the time to design a layout that I like. So this will do for now, and hopefully can inspire me to blog more. I like writing a lot, but with how busy work has been and everything else in life, it just hasn’t been a priority.

Work has been going good. I love celebrating holidays with the kids because they get so excited over the littlest things. Everything is pretty new to them, or at least in their memories they are. My Christmas break starts on Thursday and BOY do i need a break. Teaching 3 year old’s how to get along really takes a lot out of you.

We haven’t been much in the spirit of the holidays this year. However for the first time EVER I finished all of my shopping yesterday! I am getting excited to spend time with good friends and family for dinner this Friday, it will be the first official meal cooked in our new kitchen… HOPEFULLY that is. We are waiting to get the rest of our appliances installed and there was a problem with our oven fitting in the cupboard they made. Any hoot. I am off to take a shower and head to bed. Good night!

I will write more. I will right more. I WILL… soon.

Have you ever stopped and thought to yourself, “Is this the way I want my life?” It can be a very heart breaking situation if you find you are not on the path that you want to be.

I am just rambling for now. My goal right now is to start writing every day if I can. I know I say that every month but we will see how long I can last this time. I have some great posts in the planning, I just need time to sit down and write them out. Right now my job as a small child wrangler has pretty much taken over my life the past few months. Not that I don’t love my job because I really do, it just really takes a lot out of me. When you work with children, you give and give. It is emotionally, spiritually, and physically draining (and then some). Everyone expects you to be a strong superhero, wonder woman. They will tell you it’s not true, but lets face it, it is. The parents expect you to be on the top of your game every day to be able to teach their children, and love them when they are unable to. Teachers are people too! Any Hoot! More ramblings too.

So I finally got around to customizing this layout that I found quite a while back. It still needs a bit of work but i wanted to make sure that it was pink because October is Breast Cancer awareness month. So yea, more later.

It was nap time when one of the little girls (LG) saw that I was looking upset. I’m sure she was also trying to keep herself awake too because little three year old’s are way more smart then you might imagine. This is how our conversation went.

LG: Ms. Whitney, I have Monkey Sunglasses at home.
ME: I know, I bought them for you.
LG: [With a huge smile] I know huh!?
ME: [little laugh]
LG: I also have some pretty clippies too!
ME: I know! I bought those for you too!

It definitely put a smile on my face and was a highlight of my week. I am working on getting this blog back up and running. Although I am not 100% what will be on the site, I need an outlet both creatively and professionally.