3 Mooncat Years

Many moons ago :-) OH bought me Mooncat, she has been with us 2 years today (my best birthday gift ever) making her 3 moonyears old. This is just her pretend birthday as she was a rescue cat and the cattery estimated her at 1 year when we met her, she had been abandoned or lost her way when pregnant and we took her in to our home. She's such a cutie pie, full of cuddles whenever you need them.

Happy Birthday Mooncat

All The Threes

Both OH and I turn 33 within two days of each other, spooky huh! This joint event has not gone unnoticed by Mooncat, she provided us with a gift this morning in her own unique way, a little birdie, so kind of her.

In one way it's good to be home from our snowboarding holiday but in other ways, not so much as it means facing reality. There has still been no contact from my brother after the vile text from my sister-in-law over two weeks ago, ugh, I'm so upset by it all and keep crying. As one friend pointed out today, I'm grieving the loss of him, which I guess kinda makes sense. In my opinion, the whole sorry situation has ruined both our birthdays, when we landed back on Saturday and got home there was no birthday cards from him . . . what did I do to deserve this? 
I'm annoyed at myself that I allowed this to upset me all day on OH's birthday, and weirdly enough two cards did arrive from him today, I'm guessing he may have sent this secretly but anyhow I guess that's a good sign? I don't expect him to call tomorrow on my birthday, I'm sure she will have given him an ultimatum, but for now, I just appreciate that maybe I haven't lost him forever yet.

So, tomorrow I will be 33, woah, feels weird, I thought we would possibly be on baby number two by now!

I'm hoping to have some smiles tomorrow, I've got off to a good start this evening when we received flowers, choccies and champagne from my lovely mother-in-law, how sweet :-)

I've spent the entire evening in my pyjama's with a glass of wine and some girly telly, can't beat a bit of Brothers & Sisters, America's Next Top Model and Glee!

More Mooncat

Nothing is quite straightforward with Mooncat (thank you Arohanui at MyCheapViolin for the cool name!), I dropped her off at the vets on Friday so she could chill out there whilst they attempt to take a urine sample, a procedure called cystocentesis (ouch), but oh no . . . Mooncat had other ideas . . . she decided she wouldn't drink much that day and so after 3 attempts they decided her bladder was too small to take a sample.

So Mooncat is back home, happy as Larry. She'll have her anti-stress medication for a month and we'll see how she goes and maybe try again at a later date.


The brother - SIL saga continues, as I mentioned before I'm trying not to talk about it much on here as it is so upsetting but it's hard not to when it's occupying my mind a lot of the time. Via my brother she has accused me of things I haven't said, I have denied them and calmly given my side, there is no way I want a slanging match over it, I cannot understand why anyone would do this. I spoke to my brother last Thursday and thought we had made some head way, as it's unresolvable all we can do is put it behind us, I left him to speak with her about moving on from it as she doesn't need the stress (she is pregnant) and neither do I with my upcoming cycle, I'm looking for support from my family, not this. The next morning she sent me a very abusive text directly to me, I was speechless, it is S-H-O-C-K-I-N-G.  Not once have I made a derogatory remark about her to my brother in all this and so I do not deserve such abuse. After talking with OH this weekend he doesn't think it's a good idea to paste the whole text here as then it's on the internet forever (plus you would be so outraged you'd fall off your chair and I don't want you to injure yourself), but there is one line that I think you will all appreciate is incredibly hurtful (written in text speak as well!), bear in mind she is fully aware of our infertility issues:

"u. sud concentrate on yr family and not mine as we have moved on to the next stage by making a baby out of our love 4 1another & giving yr mum & dad their 1st grandchild & they cant wait bless them."


I have literally been in shock since I got the text. I have forwarded it on to my brother so he can see for himself, of course there has been no reply. I intend to lay low for now, go away on my snowboarding holiday and forget about it all, it's been going on for two weeks today and I'm tired of it, tired of feeling upset about it.

This weekend we travelled up North to see my parents, this is the first time in about 6 months that we have seen them on our own (without my brother/SIL) and my dad feeling well again. It was really really nice. We had fun, took them out and about and it was relaxing, a welcome relief. I haven't mentioned anything about the SIL saga, I don't want them to be involved if I can avoid it.

On to happier things, I'm on a countdown to snowboarding, we are off on a last minute trip on Saturday to Tignes in France with the lovely Mr & Mrs B, only 5 sleeps to go. 

Must remember my mantra too (thanks @saleschick for reminding me!)

• Take one day at a time
• Be strong
• I can do this