Been a minute since I've posted anything. Things have been fine in our house and even our holiday was nice.

On Thanksgiving my SO and I decided to get engaged. We aren't doing a big wedding. Just a little courthouse wedding in a few weeks with our parents and a few of my siblings. Telling SD10 and BM was pretty easy. BM was thrilled. SD said it was "the best day ever" when we told her and has seemed excited about it. I was nervous about telling them but I'm glad it went well.

The last couple weeks have been kind of rough for me, personally. My cat died last week and it was pretty traumatic for me. I had noticed he was sick the week prior and he was losing weight pretty quickly. Then he stopped eating and I knew it was bad. I took him to the vet and he had some ulcerations on his gums and we scheduled him for some labs the following week. He passed before I could get him in for the lab work, but my best guess is kidney failure. He was 9 years old. He was very healthy before that and it honestly happened so quickly I was barely ready for all of it.

Oh boy. What a week and change it's been in our house. So, two weekends ago SD10 had Covid and BM refused to take time off work to keep SD at her house to quarantine. My SO had to take her to his parents' house (they are away on a trip) to quarantine and try not to expose himself and by extension me. It ended up working out and SD is recovered now and neither of us ended up with Covid. Thank goodness. SD had a lot of time at BM's last week so we didn't see her much but SO and I had a couple discussions about SD and her behavior lately.

My SD10 had her tonsils out last week and has been recovering, mostly, at BM's house. It's been kind of nice without her for the last week, but she came back yesterday so here we are.