shredded shorts; kitten

As planned, Kyra rode the bus home with Kurt and Zoe with the intent of her going to swim practice with them at 5:30 p.m. But I was a bit surprised to receive a call from her cell phone (which was at our house) while I was still at work. She called to ask me how to turn the house alarm back on. She said she had to come into the house for an "emergency". I asked what the emergency was and she said, "I climbed over a fence and tore my shorts." CLICK. She hung up on me! Did she think I was going to yell at her?


It was raining when I left the office. I had planned to arrive home shortly before swim practice ended, but Karolin left a message on my cell phone saying it was storming so no swim practice. It had stopped raining by the time that I arrived. The girls were doing homework. I was chatting with Karolin when her phone rang. Amber was at the pool and had a kitten that she was trying to find a home for. Of course the girls bolted from the table and ran across the street to see the kitten. Then Zoe came back and said that Kyra really wanted me to come see the kitten. Karolin and I followed Zoe to the pool. It was a very cute kitten that had crawled under Amber's hood while she was at the library and it crawled out once she returned home. She can't keep it at her house and was calling everyone she could think of to take it. Of course Kyra BEGGED me to let her keep it, but I held a firm NO. Mandy eventually agreed to take it in and Amber took Kyra and Zoe to Mandy's house to deliver the kitten. Thank goodness!