Howdy! Howdy!

**Dorothy39** · 10-12-2006, 06:52 AM

Welcome Home!!!!

It's good to see your Posts again!!!!

**sirrahbed** · 10-12-2006, 07:30 AM

Hey Laura!!

I am soooo happy to see that you are home - it always feels so good to read that you are back at home again - each time!

I loved the story of the captain and of your babies greeting you. Of course they know who you are. I just got the biggest smile reading this and seeing/hearing it in my mind's eye

(((((LAURA))))))

**Laura's Babies** · 10-12-2006, 09:48 AM

WOW! Looks like this is the best homecoming ever! So many welcome backs! Thank you all for the warm homecoming! I will get pictures soon as I open my luggage and get the camera out.... so far, the luggage was just dumped on my bedroom floor (unopened) and I haven't even thought about getting stuff out of them yet..

I woke up this morning with Samantha laying on me purring, Amy and Giz we close by laying on the floor, waiting for me to get up. I LOVE the first morning back and waking up with them... There is no way I can describe that feeling, warm, cozy, wonderful, HOME, sheer happiness? Just to mention a few....

**Logan** · 10-12-2006, 09:58 AM

Welcome home, Laura. You are always missed during those 28 days you are gone, by us, and obviously, your babies, too!

Someone mentioned having a cat on the boat. Laura, you probably don't know this story, but years ago, in 1984, I had been at the beach with my family and was headed back to NC to go back to work, and I stopped to buy some seafood at a local seafood market to take home with me. There was this precious little black and white kitten, and of course, I ended up taking her with me. She was eating a jelly doughnut when I saw her and the guys at the market said that she had been dumped there, along with a sibling, a week or so before. They actually took her out on the shrimp boat with them, every day! Therefore, I named her "Shrimp Boat"!!

I always thought that those big tough shrimpers were heroes to take such good care of a tiny little girl like that.

Logan