Manning

Meet Manning!

For a long time our family was without pets. What with all the diapers and snotty noses who had time for fur and litter boxes! With everyone getting older and no new ones planned it looked like the perfect time to get a pet. In April 2009 this orange tabby caught our eye and our heart! He is hilarious and we joke he is more like a dog than a cat. He loves to carry things in his mouth and will even fetch, if he is in the mood (he is a cat after all). He has all his claws but is good about using a scratching post. He is very sweet and lets Delaney drag him around the house and hold him like a baby. He loves to go outside to watch the birds, he "talks" to them with this really funny stuttered meow. The birds click and call when he is outside, it is no wonder they are wary of him as he has successfully hunted two of their kin!

I have tried several times in my life to keep a journal. I do pretty good for the first few days and then I just stop. My most successful attempt lasted a few weeks...my kids were the focus. I wrote about funny things they said. I came across it a couple of months ago and had so much fun reading it. At the end of my entries I was disappointed with myself that I hadn't kept it up. That all those "kids say the darndest things" moments had been lost. So I find myself wondering will I be able to keep a blog? I hope so, what a wonderful way to keep an account of the daily happenings that make our futures memories so I'm going to give it a shot...welcome to The "Gray" Day!