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Sisterhood

My Very First !

Today I heard the mail come through the door slot and hit the hallway floor.
Nothing exceptional about that, that happens most days. I know when I hear that sound MaMa will soon come and gather it up and do "Mail Call"
Mostly it's mail for MaMa of Papa. Although when I first came here almost a year ago, I did get some mail just for me!

Recently Nuk has been getting mail and toys! - The boy fancies himself popular. So you can imagine my surprise when MaMa held a red envelope out to me and said "Mail for Gabby"

For me?!? - Oh what could it be!!!
She helped me open it and inside was a pretty card, with a bear holding a heart. MaMa read it to me:
"Sweet Valentine Wishes" it said.
Inside the card it said - "My dearest Gabby, Hope your heart is happy all day long!
Mine is filled with thoughts of you ! ~ MAK"

and then?!? MaMa showed me what MAK had put inside my card. A beautiful pink and purple butterfly!
Just for me :)

Oh MAK Dearest - You are the most thoughtful, sweet and attentive Angel and I love you so.

I don't even know if he read my diary about my perfect "Valentine's day" - but an Angel always knows your heart's desire, without you ever needing to say a word.

Squeeee - I am so in Love!

Valentines Tag

1. Do you have a Valentine?... If so... who?
Yes, I do! He is Morty Angel Kitty. Wilson J. Scooter's Angel brofur.

2. If not... do you wish you did? ... Is there anyone particular? -
Did you hear me? I said I did...

3. What’s your favorite Love Song?... Who sings it?
I don't think it's a "Love Song" but MAK and I went on a "date" to see the Lion King and we sang Hakuna Matata together. So I consider that *my* Love Song!

4.What would be a Perfect Valentines Day for you?
The flutter of Angel Wings gently fanning me awake followed by a sweet kiss to my cheek fur from Morty. He would have already prepared a big breakfast and the two of us would eat. Morty would ask me if I want to go flying and hold me close to him and off we'd go, visiting my farther away friends. We'd stop somewhere for a lunch and maybe take another horse & carriage ride through the park. At sunset we'd sit on a quiet green hill and Morty would remember that on our first date he gave me a box of butterflies and he'd have some again for us to set free and watch fly into the sky. Their wings lit up by colors of the setting sun. I wouldn't want him to leave, but he's an Angel and he must. (Angels are VERY busy, you know!) MAK would take me home, give me a sweet kiss, see me safely back inside and then off to the AngelsLand he'd go. I'd be sighing and so dreamy that I wouldn't even want supper. (for a little while)
:)

I wouldn't want to disappoint anyone

Just the other day, I heard Mama telling Papa that "You know what Gabby hardly does anymore? She doesn't seem to wake in the night and walk softly crying until she finds an awake human."
Then Mama & Papa they talked between themselves, wondering if that was something I did because I missed the other cats from my first family or if it was because back then I was still adjusting to my new home and new family or if it was a combination of both factors.

Well, I wouldn't want to disappoint anyone and so just tonight while Papa is sleeping and Mama is helping us to catch up on all our friend's diaries, I jumped down off the foot of the bed where I had been sleeping with Papa and walked through the house softly crying until I found Mama. Then I cried a not so soft cry to ask her to come out of her chair and down on the floor with me. Oh how I love that! She rubs me and I rub my face against her face. I lick her hand and her face and then rub my cheeks all over her because she's mine!
When I've decided that I've had enough, I go have a little snack or a drink of water and go back to bed with Papa.

Oh food, yeah...
I'm a little nervous. I hear that we are ALL going to the vet in Feb. (For our yearly exam and vaccinations.) I'm sure they're going to weigh me and maybe the vet doctors won't like me after that.

Sweets told me that when she was in the hospital she saw posters and pictures of dogs and cats who were taking part in our Vet's "Biggest Loser" contest.
What if someone at the Vet place says I should be a "Biggest Loser"

Oh! and I know my "boogie mat" is for scratching but it's much more fun to rush at it and get under it. That never grows old!

Nuk taught me another fun game. He told me that when you hear the bedroom closet open Papa is going in there for his "belt" and his "tie" - the tie is not for playing but that belt sometimes come snaking out under the closet door and then retreats and comes back out again. Now that, my friends, is some real fun and Nuk and I like to see whose paw can be the fastest to catch that belt.

We've also been doing 2 daily "Olympic" play sessions. We play with the braided rope string on a reel. We chase it as Mama winds and unwinds it through the house.
We play with the Cat Dancer, although if Nuk gets his mouth on it, he slobbers the end ALL up. We play with the evil red dot that NO cat can catch. I play with the Turbo track and sometimes Mama even makes the lighted ball come out of the track for me to chase through the house in the dark.
My jumping skills have improved. I will never be the graceful, effortless leaper that Nuk is or the determined jumper that Sweets is, but it isn't such a struggle for me to get up on Mama & Papa's sleeping bed!
Do you think maybe I'm already a "Littlest Loser?"
MoL
If I do have a little trouble getting up somewhere high, I just kind of "walk" the rest of the way up the side of it, pulling my self up. Mama and Papa call that "Taag walking" because as I hear it... Taag was a "not so hot" jumper herself and used this same strategy to get to the higher places.

I've also earned 2 new nicknames! My "Gabulous" nickname has evolved to just "Fabulous" and I really like the sound of that! When my family is busy elsewhere, but I want them with me I will walk the house to find them. When I do, I rub on them and coo at them and they look down and say "Oh hello Fabulous" - Then my tail shoots up straight in the air and my whiskers are all forward and my eyes shining! Oh yes! I'm Fabulous.

My second nickname is "Gabby Love" - I mostly hear this while I'm rubbing my cheeks on my family. Mama will say "Oh Gabby Love?" and I rub on her telling her "Yes!"