Brain Drops

There has been this stray cat hanging around our house for the past few days. My husband and daughter have done what you’re not supposed to do with strays, and gave it some food. Because we recently had to have our cat put to sleep, my daughter has been wanting another cat and has of course (as any 9 year old would do) fallen in love with the stray.

I personally have been somewhat enjoying not having a cat for a little while (since I have had cats throughout my life and do love them)- mostly I have not missed the litter box and cat hair everywhere. But one night when she was upset about the cat being outside meowing incessantly, she asked me “how would you feel if you were just abandoned?” My first response was “I’m not a cat, so that wouldn’t happen.” But in my head I knew that that is exactly what happened to her and so many other little girls in China.

The conversation ended there, but that thought has randomly rattled around in my head ever since. Then I read a post by Kristin over at This Is Kristin and it got me thinking again about this stray cat, the abandoned girls in China, and unconditional love.

Now there are many different directions this post could go, and right now I’m not sure which one to take. But I felt I had to get this out there, to start the conversation, and see where it goes from there.

More to come later…

Wheres the rain?

It has now been raining for 7 days straight (maybe more, I’ve lost count). We have reached our average amount of rainfall for the year, and still have 3 more months to go.

I don’t mind the rain, except for when I have to run errands. Then it makes for no fun.

So this morning Amy came up with an idea for an invention. When you are at the grocery store shopping carts should come equipped with a pop up umbrella. That way when you are walking to the store from the parking lot you can stay dry on your way in to the store. Once you have finished your shopping and are ready to take you groceries out to your car, you push another button and you have umbrellas that pop up over the basket section of your cart, and all of your groceries stay dry too.

Now if she could just invent a way to get them put away by themselves at home too, we’d be all set.

I keep a journal on my bedside table. I use it to write down those random thoughts I have just before going to sleep or that wake me up in the middle of the night. I used to try and remember them the next morning, but found that didn’t work out so well.

This was last nights random thought…

“We” are not always right and “They” are not always wrong.

What are you thoughts?

Life isn’t that hard, we just have a tendency to over complicate things.

Discuss…