DEAR CLAUS, OH, they are just TTTOOO cute!!! I have watched the first 2 videos, and laughed so loud when GIZMO was tangled in the blinds in the window!!!! OMG, my husband asked WHAT was I laughing at???!!! I hope you four are doing well, and have had a good year. For us, we have not yet gotten new BABIES to brighten up the house -- and destroy furniture -- and to cuddle with while they purr in our ears, but we are hoping to do so in January 2008. My mother has gotten, sadly, quite worse since I last wrote you at the beginning of the year,, when you got GIZMO & MEEKO. She's had two more MINI-STROKES, is now 100% in-bed, with a full-time live-in nurses aide to help...but she REALLY needs more than we can provide for her at home at this point. She also has Parkinson's Disease, so it makes life for her very unpleasant, not being able to control her body, her hands, anything. But, at least at home she has her three cats who sleep/live on top of her in the hospital bed we've had since July ... she couldn't sit up in her own bed anymore, and nurses couldn't get around the big bed to help her, so we got a fully automatic hospital bed for her. I am hoping that, for her sake, her illnesses will take her quietly some night, so she no longer has to be put through this misery...Of course, my husband and I are still living with her, we live upstairs, so she know there is ALWAYS someone in the house at all times...or SOMETIMES she remembers we are here, sometimes she doesn't. The other day she didn't know who I was, which was pretty scary... Well, not the happiest of Holiday Seasons, though we DO have lots and lots of SNOW for the first time in DECEMBER in MANY, MANY years!!! Please let me know how you are, and when you have the chance, would LOVE to see new pix of THE CHILDREN -- they must be getting SO BIG by now!!! :-) WARMEST WISHES, Connie

said connierc 9 months 20 days ago