Midweek Foster Kitten Friday - Changed Lives

When we ordered Chinese food last week, my fortune cookie read:

In normal times, a fortune like this one would be exciting to get. It would be so fun contemplating all the possibilities! But we aren't in normal times, and with this summer being full of doctor appointments for me I was hesitant about what it meant. Well, it was the very next day after receiving the fortune that I found out. Remember eight years ago when the rheumatologist told me I'd be in a wheelchair in five years? While I showed him by getting three additional years (ha!), the joke's on me because I just crossed the line in the sand. Those chickens have come home to roost. My goose is cooked. 

But I'm not here to talk about chickens or geese. I'm here to talk about my foster kitties, McKinley and Denali. Just look how far they have come!

At one day old...

At three weeks old...

At six weeks...

At eight weeks...

And now here at almost three months...

 

Tomorrow my beautiful babies will be having surgery and subsequently heading to the adoption floor. Up, up, and away to their brand new lives with a brand new family. (By the way, letting them go doesn't get any easier.)

Yep kitties, your lives are about to change forever. As will mine. For tomorrow I too will be trying to get a feel for my new life. 

Goodbye, best-in-the-world kitties. Best of luck to us all.

Foster Kitten Friday - A Bond Like No Other

I tell McKinley and Denali the same thing every day. 

I love you so much.
You are the sweetest kitties ever.
You are the prettiest babies ever.
You are the best kitties ever.

My husband reminds me I say the exact same thing to every single foster kitten who has come into this house. And he would be right. I sure do.

But there IS something about these two that really stands out. All those other pairs of kittens who I thought were bonded have nothing on these babes. Whether they are playing together, grooming each other, or sleeping on top of each other, these two belong together. 

Based on this week's photos the evidence is clear, don't you think?

What was that noise?

Purr goes Denali's engine while McKinley cares
more about the NASCAR engines.

Denali's on-the-back sleeping technique goes well with McKinley's curled-up technique.

And they definitely have perfected the sleeping-on-top-of-each-other pose day after day after day. After day.

Even the yawing picture looks to be a close match.

When they join me in the sewing room, each one has to show me just how much they are alike by posing in the same place. 

There may be the rare occasion when Denali is snuggling up and McKinley is opening up her salon,

but otherwise these two are joined at the hip. And quite frequently to my lap. Yep, sweetest kitties ever.

Prettiest babies ever. Best kitties ever. And definitely best bond ever.