Meet the One and Only…

Let me introduce my little Missy McAllister to you in case you have not met her before. She is the one and only in many ways including that she is the last of the 3 kittens we adopted from the Human Society 16 ½ years ago now…the others are in kitty heaven and I visit them in our back yard often and see their pictures on our mantle every day! I miss them.

McAllister has earned many names from McBelly to MacArthur to McAllllvvviiiinnnn….to a host of others…she lets her needs be known in a very vocal way and not softly either!

I am delighted to have grown closer to Miss Mac this year. She attached herself at the Human Society to my husband as a wee little kitten instantly, claimed him and has been ‘his’ since.

However, since I am parked on the couch and available at a beacon call and she knows how to get her way…well we’ve grown closer and I am delighted. She is a very sweet kitty.

One of our morning rituals is for me to sit on the floor kiss her up and brush her in the very early morning hours…I am a morning person. I think we both purr during this time together!

This is only one of the many wonderful things that have come out of my shingles bout. I don’t have to look very far to see a ton of them…from renewing my closeness with my husband, to reconnecting with old friends, to making new friends, to having more energy and time to spend with my family all be it mostly on line.

I have been reminded of the importance of the people in my life.

And, I badly needed the reminder too! I had lost my way once again I can see now. I am finding me again too!

There are many good things that come out of bad times!

It is important to take stock of those good things because on the hard days and there still are those for me, I don’t have to look far before I see that there is a purpose for all I am going through, many of them!

As I say each day and believe: Everything Is, As It Should Be!

This is a meditation: inhale saying ‘everything is’ and exhale saying ‘as it should be’ over and over and over again. Helps me to accept that which is as it is even when I would rather it not be…if I don’t I suffer wanting something I have no control over because it is as it is in this moment!

Would I really rather NOT be parked on the couch at this moment writing this, of course…but tis what it tis and when I look not very far at the sweet Mighty Mac sleeping so sweetly across from me and the sun making its way up through the trees outside the windows…I’d be missing this moment if I weren’t recovering with yet a second outbreak of shingles!

What are you grateful for in this very moment?
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Please rub my belly!

Hi I am a sweetheart aren’t I!?

I’m dreaming of eating all the cheese, yogurt, avocados, green beans and peas that I want…..