Sophie

This picture marks  Sophie’s 2nd Christmas with us.  Chuck and I gifted ourselves  Lola and Sophie for Christmas in 1997.  This photo, taken during Christmas 1998 was in the house Chuck built for us in Ohio.  Sophie will be 14 this September.  As I write she is upstairs asleep.  She sleeps all the time now.   Ahh, but she is still such a comfort to me.  Yesterday she  climbed up next to me for my first holiday nap.  She nestles in, warm and soft and purrs until we both fall deeply asleep.  This has been our ritual for every part of the last 14 years and I love her for it.