Looks like a good school schedule!! Did you find a math book? How many hours will you be doing school? So far our first week was 2 hours and 20 minutes each day. I think it will take a tad longer when Awana starts (In 4 days) and they will be working on verses. I am sorry about your cat! We will pray he comes back! I almost got a kitten yesterday. they had them in front of Vons. They were so cute. I would have gotten one, but they did not have any orange ones. Maybe next time =)

Good luck with school today!! It will be fun!

Um, I so do not envy you having to do PE. I feel sorry for the child that learns to throw from me. Here's to hoping that you're better at it.

Also, I am sorry to hear about Henry. I hope he makes his way home soon.

We probably should be doing something for PE other than Awana games. I am not good at PE. Oh well.

I am so, so sorry about Henry, Rachel. I'll pray for his safe return. Was he fixed? Normally male cats stay put (no need to wander) if they are. Plus it cuts down on the very unecessary overpopulation of cats. We almost lost Leia the other day, she shot outside without us even noticing and Jason found her cowaring by the door. I don't know what I'd do if I lost her. I know what people think about people who place that much importance on animals, I really don't care what they think. My animals are my children and I would just lose a part of myself if I lost them. Of course, if we lived in a more rural area, I might not be so stubborn about keeping them inside. It is a large city with fast cars and bad kids. She'd either die or get stolen and I just can't have either. I do hope Henry returns, he seemed like a doll.

Henry was neutered. He had lost his collar, and we hadn't replaced it yet (those safety collars are great for safety but we have to replace them about three or four times a year), so it is hard not to hold out hope that someone saw him, thought he was a stray, and adopted him. We asked around the neighborhood, though, and nobody had seen him.

It was probably either the highway (which we've never seen him go near, but maybe he was chasing something or being chased?) or an animal that got him. We don't have a lot of predators that hang around here, but who knows. Just like when Molly vanished last fall, we've been compulsively checking places like the basement and the garage again and again, just in case he got trapped. We've always had a more pragmatic view of pets in both our families -- neither of us were brought up even taking pets to the vet when we were kids. We do take our cats, and we do get attached to them, but we've never wanted to keep them indoors all the time. The funny thing is that in all my growing-up years, with animals who were exclusively outdoors, living in the midst of mountain lions and bobcats and the occasional bear, we never had the kind of bad luck we've had with cats this year. :( Maybe the dogs kept the animals at bay a bit.

Cats are notorious for loosing their collars and yeah, it stinks that if someone sees a cat without a collar they will just steal it. No poster for a found animal or anything, people are so selfish. Mike and Christy never took animals to the vet either, living with them was very tramatic in that sense. My little kitten Kaya was acting weird and I went away to visit Christy's mom and they broke her neck while I was gone. Lke putting down a horse with a broken leg. Have you seen Sea Biscuit? If you haven't, you should it is an amazing story. "You don't throw away a whole life just because it's a little banged up."