Category: Family

For months Kerry and myself would talk about what it would be like when our parents met each other. We were pretty sure they would get along. After all, they made two pretty amazing kids (yes, we are biased) and we both get along with the other’s parents really well.

We knew that our mom’s would have plenty to talk about, but were less sure about our dads. Turns out that there was absolutely nothing to worry about. Everyone had a fabulous time together, including my uncle Pete, my dad’s brother and Josh and Ros, Kerry’s brother and sister-in-law.

There were family dinners, leisurely walks down Wilshire, and a great visit to LACMA. We even took them to the place where we thought we were going to get married, but no dice. But we might have found a band to play at the wedding. They were warming up for an event when we were leaving. Kerry and I had some fun dancing before we walked back home.

By the end of the weekend Kerry’s dad was inviting my father to come down to their house in Florida for a scotch tasting. We’re looking forward to more get togethers and hope it won’t take till the wedding for that to happen.

There’s been some movement on the wedding planning front, but first I wanted to share with you our newest addition to the family, Izzy the kitten.

We went to a Los Angeles city shelter and when we got to take her out of the cage she immediately started purring and giving me kisses. How could we not take her home? She had a scab on her nose, so we had to sign a waiver to take her as is and promise to get her fixed later. The vet thought it might be ringworm and told us to keep her isolated. It turned out her nose was fine, but she had a cold. I know, little kitten with a cold sounds adorable, but the poor thing was having sneezing fits and even got a bloody nose.

We ended up having to put her on antibiotics and despite our best efforts, Louie our 5 year old cat got sick too. Everyone is better now and best of all the cats get along really, really well. They wrestle, chase each other around the house, play king of the cat furniture and are even affectionate with one another. Now only if there was a solution to keeping Louie — who is on a diet — from eating all of her food…