as expected.............

.......vacations never start off easy!

This past Wednesday we had our cat, Chip fixed and de-clawed. We brought him home on Friday and all was well. Was.

This morning he was spooked by one of our kids and jumped off of the couch. 9:30 That would be fine normally, except for the fact that his paw began to bleed. He ran over to me and jumped on my lap. He then jumped down and ran upstairs. As he was running away, he left a nice trail of blood behind. At this point I shouted "stop the cat, he's bleeding!!!" Now my wife was on his tail (so to speak) He stopped at his crate so C could check him out. Now for the bloody trail to clean up.

11:00 Chip was going to stay home for the week, with a friend of mine checking up on and feeding him. Change of plans. I had to rush 25 minutes away to Arens house. Chip is now staying their for a few days of observation.

11:45 My mother in law is coming to Myrtle Beach with us again. She lands at 12:30. The airport is 55 minutes away. Aren and his wife just had a baby girl 15 days ago. I haven't met her yet. Can't leave before I do. Chips crate has some blood spatter on the inside. Gotta clean that before I go.

Call C. "Sorry, just leaving for home now, I guess you have to pick up your mom with the kids"

12:00 I get home and start organizing all things packed. Re-arrange some bags and get things ready to go in the van. No van. C has it to pick up her mom. She was supposed to take the put-put so I could load up the van.

1:45 Grammas here!!!! The kids are pumped, I'm ready, Grammas setting things aside for the beach, and C is double checking stuff. I think we can leave by 3:00.......... maybe.