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Last night Don and I went to dinner at a small town, family-owned Italian restaurant called Figlios in Bracken. Yummy! I would highly recommend this place to anyone who craves Italian food. The staff is very friendly, the place cozy, and the food delicious. We then went to a house in Alamo Heights to see some kittens. A friend and dear coworker of mine had asked me, not knowing about Honda, if I wanted a kitten, as her next door neighbor was foster caring for some cats. Found out that there were 2 orange kittens, which, in Don's book, is a must-have requirement. Don wanted to check out the kittens before the rest of the family fell in love with him/them, as he didn't want to be the bad guy if he didn't really like that kittens. He feels very strongly about not wanting kittens who hide from you--he wants kittens/cats who are not skittish, ones who will approach you and sit on your lap and take command of your world. Well, these kittens appeared to be able to do that in spades! The mama cat, who's only about 9 months old herself, was very friendly. She had 4 kittens (actually 5 but the runt didn't make it)--3 boys and one girl. The girl was a white with brown-tipped ears, almost Siamese-like, the other boy was a white one with an eye infection, and the 2 orange boys. One of them, whom Don has already named 'Hobbes' (after Calvin and Hobbes) is a darker orange on the top and white on his belly, and his hair is a little bit longer. The other is a lighter shade of orange, but more like the tabby striped orange cats. Pretty blue eyes. Cute, both of them. So....given the fact that Don's already named one of them in his head (Troy wants to name one of them 'Oliver', after the movie "Oliver and Company", which, if you didn't already deduced, made me bawl when I saw the movie), it appears as if we'll have kittens in the house again. Don agreed in the car that they'd be mostly indoor cats! The kittens will be taken to get fixed next week and then we'll get to bring them home. We've not discussed and agreed on it formally, but...it's a sure bet that that's what is going to happen.

In all of this, God is so good--He placed my coworker Ann in touch with me, knowing that we were severely lacking in orange kitten-ness. Praise His name that He cares so much about these seemingly minute details of our lives.

Thank you, Father God, for all that you are, and for all that you give us.

Blessings and His peace.