Back in the day. Before the boy-child grew up and left home, and we still had our fur-baby. Image: Su Leslie, 2009.
DP Photo Challenge: Nostalgia, take 1
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age is just a (biggish) number
Back in the day. Before the boy-child grew up and left home, and we still had our fur-baby. Image: Su Leslie, 2009.
Zimmerbitch 
What a sweet young boy. How old was he then, Su, about 8 years old?
Leslie
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Thanks Leslie. I think he was about 10.
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Such a sweet photo! I love a boy who loves his cat!
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🙂 He’s actually allergic to cats — something we didn’t realise until after we got two kittens. He’s put up with itchy eyes and a runny nose for 16 years so that he could cuddle the fur babies.
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Sounds like my brother. He is also allergic, but by the time his symptoms appeared at about age 10, we had three cats (and a dog). The doc said to get rid of them. My mother said, “And what’s the next option?” Needless to say, we kept them all.
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Brilliant!
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Hey su – I enjoyed the part 2 to this- and as you can tell _ i am getting caught upon blog visits tonight….
anyhow, did I read correctly – you were able to have cats with allergies. that is pretty cool – well you know what I mean.
my son wants a cat so much and my hubs is slightly allergic – and now I am thinking we could maybe try. my son has one more year with us before college and I also have wanted a cat – so hmmmmm – now I am thinking 🙂
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I think if we had known how hard it would be for the boy-child, we probably wouldn’t have got the cats. But he was really little and enjoyed having them in his life, so… it’s a tough one.
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yes – and another example of how we make decisions in real time and then things unfold – we played Lacrosse two years too many and I would have done a couple things different – but can;t say things would have turned out better had I done those – so we know – wise to have clarity as we look back but also have comfort in knowing we make those real-time decisions and they were what is… 🙂
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That’s true. Hindsight is 20/20!
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7 years ago?
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Give or take
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