whoa the week is finally over....

and i can't believe that i survived it! no really it wasn't all that bad. jacob did have some issues at school but had 3 great days too! so that is what i am looking at! i am meeting with the child study group on monday. jo, director at hatcher, said to be prepared to be scared and ganged up on because all of the people that will be in the room. let's see there will be: the principal, school counselor, teacher, resource teacher, school pshychologist and.....................me. wow i do feel a little ganged up on! but im ready for them. hell i may just bring my own social worker - oh goodness i forgot about her too! i have been doing my research and have found some good things to discuss with them.

so this week we had to put the family cat down. wow she has been with us for a long time! she was 19yo and has been through it all! i got her when we moved into our first townhouse after my parents split up. oh my goodness, i remember adopting her and when we brought her home i wanted to give her a bath. well she had been in that cage with all those other kittens and she smelled. well lets just say that was THE ONLY time she got a bath. but the best part was after the bath. i wrapped her up in a towel and we went to bed. i remember looking at her with her head on my pillow, still wrapped in the towel, and her lil paws sticking out! it was awesome! she was perfect! so throughout the next 19yrs she went through it all with us. babies, dogs, visiting dogs, family members. gosh i can't believe she kept up with all those changes!!!

so anyway, mom called me monday night to tell me erma's favorite hiding spots - ok when i say hiding spots let me preface that she is blind, so any spot that she can find is considered a "hiding" spot. so i get to mom's at 3:30 and want to spend a lil time with erma lee fisk before i take her to the vet. so i check the corners, under the chair, under the hutch, and even upstairs ~ NO ERMA! so i make the phone call to mom. i can't find the cat mom, i said. she couldn't believe it. i told her i had looked everywhere but couldn't find her. mom still was in disbelief. ok seriously by this time i was running out of time and quickly! it was 4:15pm and we had to be at the vet at 5pm. mom asked if i had looked on the side of the fridge - yes, in jacobs toy box - yes. by now it is almost 5pm and i have to cancel the appt. i called the vet and told them that i had an appt to put my cat down but guess what, i can't find her. ok im not even lying when i say, they thought i was kidding! ok seriously this is hard enough without the jokes miss thang!!! she said to call in the morning IF i find her and they will SQUEEZE us in! oh and after she was a complete jerk she finished it up with if you do find her why don't you confine so you won't lose her again. WELL THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS EXPERIENCE SO PLEASANT BIAAATCH!!!

ok so mom gets home and guess what - she finds her BEHIND the fridge! how in the heck did she get back there? anyway i told mom to call the vet right now so she can get an appt. everyone kept telling me she is hiding because she is looking for a place to die. well i couldn't let her die behind the fridge and i couldn't let her die in pain. mom made the appt for 10:30am the next day. she took her and actually held her in the operating room when the did the procedure. mom said that dr. e said she went in like 2 seconds. that tells her she was ready to go. mom held her until it was over with and now she is in a better place.

i love you erma lee f. you were such a great kitty! your purrr was so loud and you were so cuddly! rest in peace....give nugget a kiss for jacob!