Today is Holden’s would be 19th birthday.  Yesterday our cat went missing.  The story of Puddin is one I want to share as it’s meaningful to our family.  It was a cold blizzardy December about 9 years ago.  Holden was in math tutoring at Mathnasium across the city from where we lived.  He missed his regular day so this was a make up day, a Friday.  We got there to discover that they were closed on Friday. To feel like the trip wasn’t wasted, I asked Holden if he wanted to go to Petland.  So we went, it was pretty empty there, we were looking at the cats in the window boxes and I was looking at this sad scruffy looking tuxedo cat when a worker asked me if I wanted to hold him and I immediately said yes.  Well that cat stayed in my arms not moving for 1/2 hour.  He was so sweet and loving that Holden asked if we could keep him.  I wanted to and he was even on sale for $20 because he wasn’t a kitten.  So we texted Colin and asked if we could buy him, sent him a picture to which he responded “he looks mean and bitchy”. Despite the comment he agreed and the rest is history.  We miss you so much Holden and Puddin.  Today is a hard day 

I’m a nurse and I have been teaching my boys about the body since they were little.  One day we were having ribs for supper and Holden who was about 7 or 8 at the time was eating his ribs and had a thought.  Without stopping eating he asked me “Mom is this people’s ribs we are eating?”  It was so funny, of course I told him no we don’t eat other people but that was just Holden, connecting the dots of howthis world works