Kiki 🐾❤️

You came to me one cool spring night , a few days old, eyes barely open , resting beneath a bush all alone in my backyard. In many ways you made me a mom with round the clock bottle feeding, teaching you to groom yourself, how to play. Your curious nature and tenacious spirit always filling me with awe and joy. You knew me in my childhood home and saw me through some of my life’s biggest milestones and challenges , graduating college, getting my first apartment, letting go of my first love, traveling the world, moving to the Catskills, graduating with my OT degree, getting engaged and getting married where we had a signature cocktail called “The Kiki”. You loved to travel and join us on adventures to Chincoteague and the Catskills. You were an indoor cat with an outdoor cat soul and we would spend many a day outside together watching nature and basking in the son. When we brought home Nova you begrudgingly accepted him as a sibling and you were your dad’s first pet. Today you leave me on a cold snowy Sunday in January. I will miss seeing your little face in the window when I pull in the driveway, you running up the stairs to follow us up to bed, catching you sunbathing on your condo, cuddling each morning with your dad before demanding breakfast and hearing your little paws tapping on the back door begging to go outside. I’m even going to miss finding your tufts of long beautiful hair all over the house. The world feels a little uncertain right now and certainly less bright without you in it. I hope that wherever you are you are living an adventurous pain free life and know that your family will always love you. I’m glad you could pass on in my arms surrounded by me, your dad and your brother, until we meet again 🌈