Yes, I'm back...forgot some thoughts

I just checked the last post (not the one I wrote minutes ago) and it was literally 2 months and a day ago that I wrote the last post...how pitiful!

And when I was reviewing the most recent post, I read the title of our blog and became saddened. You see, 'the Cube' is no longer with us. Sugar Cube, more formally known, was our beloved 8 year old cat that had to be euthanized early Friday morning, Dec.03, 2009, due to renal failure. Her illness began that Monday and came to an end by Friday morning. She passed away in our arms at the vet ER clinic....I wouldn't change a thing about being there as she died because our presence gave her comfort, but it was VERY HARD to watch her in pain and know in just minutes she will be gone. It was VERY HARD to watch her sweet head lower and her purring come to a stop as the euthanasia cocktail took over her body. I'll never be able to pet that soft fur and love on our beautiful furbaby.....that was one of the thoughts running through my head at the time.

It is a bit boring in the house now that she is gone. Both of us miss her as her antics and place in the schedule of the day are gone. When Jesse is at work, I'm definitely feeling quite by myself as she was my buddy, staying by my side through the day, and tolerating my talking to her to keep me sane :).

I miss her warm little body that curls up next to us during the night or if we take naps on the weekend. Her 'turkey-call', this funny little gurgling noise she'd make when greeting us in the hall as we entered the house, or when she was running to the food bowl expecting us to follow, is a noise we'll definitely miss as it was so fun to hear and made us laugh.

She was a beautiful cat and gave us her flirty eyes when we either we petted her when she wanted or she wanted something from us (food, to be let in or out)...I guess the pattern here is that when she wanted something she knew how to flirt!

But, even though Sugar Cube is no longer with us, I am keeping her memory alive by not taking her out of our blog title.

Ah, Sugie, our fur-baby, you will be sorely missed and greatly appreciated for being a part of our life! Thank you Lord for your precious creatures you have created and allowed to be blessings in our lives.

her flirty eyes

her favorite way to lay around
watching the snowfall in Tennessee '08

Time Flies

Ok, I'm bad about blogging, I'll be the first to admit. I'm bad about reading others blogs, too, including when they ask me if I've read their latest one.

I think the last blog was toward the end of October, not sure, didn't even check before I started writing this post. Again, I'm a bad blogger.

Much has taken place since I last posted, or at least it seems like it has. So, I'm going to try to catch up over the next month (December) and get a few more posts on here and not seem so pitiful in my endeavor to blog.

I can't believe we are 24 days out from a New Year....the year 2010....that is so weird to write!

And today, Dec. 7, is a day to always remember....that attack on Pearl Harbour ....we must not forget events of the past such as these or we are doomed to repeat them in the future.

Well, I must get off here and go paint a Christmas ornament for our ornament swap squadron coffee tomorrow night. It will look much like one of these but will have a certain DM AFB squadron patch on it :).