😻 LET'S SART AT THE VERY BEGINNING 😻

In June of 2015, My oldest son and his friend adopted 2 kittens.  

They named the two brothers Rain and Prince. 

As fate would have it, shortly after they got them - they had to go out of town,  and needed someone to take care of the babies.  We volunteered.

RAIN  June 2015

PRINCE  June 2015

How do you not fall in love with this sweetness?

I was sunk.  No sooner had they come back from out of town - took the babies away, then my second son tells me the story of his friend finding an abandoned litter of kittens. Could he please have one.
 Next thing I knew I had 4 week old Nala - and I was the main caretaker over the summer (I am a school teacher). 

NALA  4 weeks old

Of course the story doesn't end there. 

4 months later, October 2015 - my husbands boss got home from a vacation to find a tiny little 10 week old black cat crying in the woods behind his house.  He knew I had recently been converted and asked if we wanted a second cat to keep Nala company. I could not refuse this little darling.  Lola was welcomed with open arms. 

And so for the next two years we were a happy 2 cat family.

 (Prince and Rain lived in the city with my oldest son). 

Then in September of 2017 our second son moved into his first apartment. 

He took Nala with him. 

In our humans, my husband and I assumed Lola was lonely all day long with us at work - so as summer once again approached we searched for a female black cat to join our Lola. 

Joyful Rescues based in Cuba NY had just the sweetheart for us. Her name was Arianne. I saw her picture on the internet and applied to adopt her. She and 3 brothers were rescued with their momma from Virginia. 2 of the brothers had already been adopted. Momma was still too sick. We went to meet and pick up Arianne - only to find they had sent her brother Ansel with her. 

Arianne is in the back, Louie is in the front. There was no way we could take one and leave the other. The agency approved us to take both and so  we did. 

When we got home - we decided we were going to call them "The Littles" because they were so little. and keeping with the "L" renamed them Lily and Louie. 

The above pic was after some rough and tumble play. Louie on the Left - and Lily on the front. He must have scratched her - but it wasn't long lasting and she was fine.

Our journey had begun.  Lola and The Littles (aka Lily and Louie) had a permanent place in our home and in our hearts.