Lucky
We'd been thinking about adopting a cat for quite a while now. Scratch that - let's be more honest - my five year old has been begging us to get a cat for several months. Nah - real honesty - I've been wanting a cat for years. The combined forces of my daughter and I finally reached through to my husband (not opposed to cats, but much more practical than cat-obsessed) and March 17th took my daughter and I to the shelter in the town about a half-hour south of us. See this face? This is the new member of my family. This is Evie and she's a year or two old rescue. Evie is the name she was given at the shelter and I decided that we would just keep it (rather than have my creative child name her Blurblee or Plorkplah or Snarmslag or some other multi-syllabic nonsensical gibberish). We were originally introduced to another cat, but she came over and sat on him so that we would pet her instead. She would follow us around meowing at us to get ...