Gratitude – Part One

‘Tis the season to think about what you’re grateful for!

Of course, Thanksgiving isn’t the only time you should be grateful for what you have in life. However, I realized that I haven’t really written about gratitude in 2 years. So much has changed since the last Thankfulness and Gratitude post. Well, mainly the fur family, significant other, and job. Today, my focus is on how grateful I am that those things have changed.

My fur family saw a major change last year when I welcomed Butterscotch to the family. He is my first and only cat. He is my biggest foster fail. He is the perfect addition to our little family. Butterscotch popped into my life during a time of hardship. It was the beginning of the pandemic 2020, and I had just called it quits with my then-boyfriend. I honestly felt like my world had been turned upside and that shit was the lowest it will ever get. What I didn’t know, was that this was about to turn into one of the best years of my life. It all started with Butterscotch.

He was a dirty little thing, and so needy. I was lucky that my boss, at the time, loves cats and she allowed me to have him in his carrier at my feet while I taught online. He had a kitty cold and needed a lot of TLC before he could go to a forever family. I was intent on finding him one. The pandemic made it hard, but I had friends back home that were so interested in adding him to their family. I got on a waitlist for flights heading to Chicago, and got estimates for him to fly.

Despite the promising forever home, I just couldn’t let him go. I was overly protective of him and nothing felt quite right if he wasn’t at home with us. So, after a few foster homes… and friends of mine running away screaming (he’s a bit of a troublemaker), he ended up in my home again in September of 2020. This time, it was for good.

I had to break it to the potential adopters that I wouldn’t be sending him over. I felt horrible, but I would have felt worse if I had taken him away from Misha and Dobby. They were attached. We moved houses quite a few times in this last year, but he has adjusted well each time. I’m so grateful I stumbled on him last year. I can’t imagine what my little family would be like without him.

Like I said at the beginning of this post, adding him to my life was the start of one of the best years I have had in a long time.