Wow! This is my 100th post!!! I have so enjoyed this blog and I have met so many friends through it. To think that we have been blessed with the internet so that we can be encouraged by other homeschool moms around the world! Amazing!!! The Lord is so good to us and we have so much to be thankful for.

Now, on to my darling, sweet, black angel! Thank you all for your compliments on my kitty. Her name is Sheba and she is almost 9-1/2 years old. When we moved to England the end of July 1999, we had nothing, literally. We rented a little bungalow and we got a kitten. She was about 12 weeks old and she was so itty bitty. She was all black with just a touch of white under her neck. We named her Queen Sheba because she looked like the black cat on the "Sheba cat food" cans and partially because we were in England and thought a "royal" name was fitting. After we had her about 2 weeks, we finally got furniture. LOL She has been a wonderful cat - never scratched the kids,(she has never been declawed) unless she had given fair warning. She would always start with a tap on the head with no claws, then she would literally poke them with ONE claw, then if they still didn't leave her alone she would swat them and run! Now, I always got on her for that, however I also told my children that they didn't listen to me, their daddy or Sheba's warnings to "leave the cat alone" and if they don't heed that warning then sometimes the consequences are not so nice. My children all learned after the first time that when we said to leave her alone, that she was done playing (I could always tell by her face, still can, when she was done) they needed to stop. She always sleeps at my head at night and kneads my hair! I LOVE THAT! She always has a ready purr & meow for me and she is my kitty cat.

I have another kitty cat that is special too, but maybe I will talk about her next week. LOL

Blessings,