Everytime I open this newsgroup I start crying. But I miss ya'll too.
So bear with me.

Abi's doing well. Or well enough. Jody and I were out of town five
weeks ago and came home to a broken arm. She had been riding one of the
children's go-cart things and it tilted. She braced her fall and
fractured above her wrist. A typical kid's injury. She's doing good,
after the fourth day she stopped complaining of it itching and the
healing prognosis is 100% positive. She was able to move her wrist and
fingers with full mobility and it hurt very little before they put the
cast on, so we began without complications. They did apply the cast up
to her shoulder because they didn't want it to move anymore than it
would otherwise. Two weeks ago they changed it out to a short arm,
below her elbow and she likes that much better. June 3rd can't come
soon enough!

Jody's in Canada, has been since Wednesday. I've been sleeping entirely
too much while he's gone. All day when Abi's at school and then as soon
as she's in bed, I'm curled up with a book in bed as well. He'll be
home tomorrow night, it can't come soon enough.

The cats are doing fine. Glitter will only let me touch her at the
darkest hours and only when everybody else is asleep. She'll decide I'm
acceptable to hang out with. Lunatic hates to be held but will endure
it anyway and Jinglebell (the boy) is a fuzzy pain in the butt when he
wants attention. But lovable ;) We've determined he's not Maine Coon
with a butchered tail as I originally thought as a 12 week old kitten.
He's growing up to look more like a Japanese Bobtail. They have similar
disposition to the coon and his markings are closer to that of his
bobtail, which is longer than a manx and has a crook in it. It's a hoot
to watch him wag it. Which he does, like a dog.
Speaking of, Mutt's plugging along. Still the little witch she can be
but she's settled down and mellowed out in the last few months. She
hangs close by, wherever I'm at she's asleep at my feet or beside me.
Eve was the only child she'd tolerate, and even occassionally lick. I
always complained to Jody that he showed favoritism towards Eve over
Abi. We've discussed it, in length that she was different than
everybody else, the kids I mean. But all the same, Mutt is doing well.

Mom and Dad's divorce was final the third week of April. And I still
haven't recovered from Mother's Day. To be honest, I think I stayed in
a shock for the last 7 months. The first of May came around and hit me
with a brick.

We're trying again, to have a baby. Frankly, that's turning into a
bust. I'm going to see the GYN soon if that doesn't change. I miss
those horrible yeast infections *grin*.

There's been too much death in the group to read properly so I'll give
blanket purrs. I did read about Nikki briefly. And Sabra... I'll light
candles for both.

I had to reformat my laptop and I need to set my newsgroup settings on
the desktop I got at Christmas. I haven't done fixed either of them so
I'm google posting for now. But I should be back strong. I want to be
and being a hermit gets old after a while.