I got a good giggle out of you saying the cat likes to bite...must be something with that particular kind of cat which looks much like my cat Tookie also known as snippy cat and she will snip you as my grand kids who fail to heed the warning have found out. Here's a picture of her on top of some mattresses. A place she seems rather fond of given that when she was just a kitten we got the biggest laugh after she did a run up a mattress sitting against the wall so fast and hard she literally ended up upside down on the ceiling...to which of course she fell, she was all right but we sure did laugh hard.

She's getting up their in age but she's still quite the acrobat.

Christmas is one of the hardest things to go alone when you are use to having someone around. I remember that experience quite well after the death of my best friend. He'd always pop in on Christmas night. For a few years I use to go visit this place on a hill on Christmas where he sketched his initials into some wet cement when he was a teenager. When I was younger I lived on that hill and we often walked up there and sat. It's a long story between him and I. I wrote about it here for a contest once. I'll admit it took a long time for that void to go away, I knew if I kept going there I couldn't get over my grieving and my feeling of loss. I'd have to honestly say that of all the things I've been through in life that was one of the hardest. Be blessed you still you your husband to go to to help fill your void a bit until such time that something different develops in your futures whatever that may bring. I think I remember mentioning my kids dad also drank quite a bit, if I could give you one thing for Christmas just to carry in the back of your mind would be this and that is to remember that when they want to be good they can but often times it leads to the rationalization that that good doesn't turn into an eternity that we long for, not that I am saying it won't for you because I have seen where men have beat the demon of addiction but I've also seen many times the demon win out. I wish the best for you and your family this holiday season, you are a extremely intelligent, bright girl, and now I even see you are a beautiful one at that, I just know that whatever happens you will find the right path for you and I hope that path is filled with happiness and that your new year is filled with the best possible outcome.