It has been a rough cou­ple of weeks in the Moore fam­ily house­hold. Mainly due to the lack of sleep we have been get­ting. This is due to two major fac­tors (one fac­tor effects Greg, both effect Kelly). One is a new cat (long story) and the other is very painful body parts.

First the cat. We have a cute lit­tle cat that decided to adopt us when Greg and I moved into the house. She is about four years old and enjoys hang­ing out­side dur­ing the day and then snug­gling up with us in the evening. She faith­fully waits for us every lunch time to let her in and then goes back out­side until we come home for din­ner. She is like clock work and has been for the past year.

However, about three weeks ago she went miss­ing for six days. We didn’t know what hap­pened to her and assumed that she was either picked up by the pound, the neigh­bors came and took her back to their new home or worse she didn’t make it across the street in time. We decided on the sev­enth day to check the pound and if she wasn’t there, we would get a new kitty. Well, we got a new kitty. Brought her home and started to warm up to her, when the neigh­bors came over and said, “Hey, look who was locked in our garage for the last seven days”, and there was our stray lit­tle cat. So, we have two cats now. Two cats that don’t get along very well and like to race around the house at about 4:00 in the morn­ing. It is basi­cally kitty race track for about 30 min­utes every morn­ing. Ugh.…no sleep for either of us. That is one factor.

The other fac­tor is the fact that I can­not sleep on a nor­mal bed with­out wak­ing up a crip­ple in the morn­ing. My hips ache so bad that my OB is hav­ing me go to phys­i­cal ther­apy on Monday. I guess hav­ing your hips hurt like some­one is try­ing to pull your legs off is not a nor­mal preg­nancy sign. Now, I can sleep on the couch and my hips don’t hurt, but then my back hurts so bad that I have trou­ble stand­ing up. So it is either sleep in the bed and have no back pain but painful hips or sleep on the couch and have the oppo­site. I have yet to fig­ured out which is the lesser of two evils.

So, that is our sleep­less story. Cats and hips (and backs). Only four months to go! YAY!! Will Kelly sur­vive? For that mat­ter, will we have liv­ing pets by the end of it all. They might have hurt­ing hips by the time I am done with them.