Jukebox —

We agonized over this. But we’ve had a helluva time finding someone to rent to us just for financial reasons, and when we found someone who would, and it was in a place we like, with space we like, the cat really comes second. We love Bas, believe me, but he has to come second to Leah, my, and the kids’ needs.

Maybe you’re joking in your comment, but I’m answering you as seriously as I can, because this transition *definitely* has an emotional toll for me. Any little thing Bas does this week evokes lots of emotion and feelings of loss. :-\

There’s also the factor that Dev, the oldest, is allergic — as in, he’s around the cat 15 minutes and he needs to have antihistamines — so long-term a cat may not be what we need, at least for now.

He’s flying out to Virginia – and the hope is that down the road, we’ll get him back. He’s merely on vacation for a while. That at least is our hope.

The date with the vet went well, he’s now current on vaccinations, and we have a health certificate. So now he can fly anytime in the next 10 days. Well, 9 now. We’ll fly him out this weekend.