Dear Auggie & Your Purrson,

Day by day...that's how you must strive to live your lives. Take it from me --the quick-to-awfulize-but-learning-not-to cat lady and my husband: We eventually learned we had not one, but two FIV-positive sister cats: We lost them 10 weeks apart in their 13th year. But how we took joy in those girls: Every morning we let them out of their "overnight room" and they bounded out was like Christmas! Before Rosie and Wudgie, we had my first true soul cat, O'Malley: He was found to be FeLV positive a year after we adopted him and our older, current cat sickened and died of the disease. But O'Malley lived FIVE MORE YEARS! Ask the Lord to impart His strength so you can take joy in every day you have together; I'll ask Him to allow you to share your lives as long as possible! My brother advised after we lost Wudgie to tell stories about her at the drop of a hat, adding, "We never lose anyone or anything as long as we celebrate the found part." Amen! Besides we'll all see our furrkins again one day! DO read Cynthia Rylant's Cat Heaven and Dog Heaven poems; the books are a joy!