THE TRIP TO CELEBRATE #2 - Meeting Kitty

Once I knew we were going to be spending 3 days in Albuquerque I contacted Kitty, At Home With Kitty. We were both so excited as we made our plans to meet for a GOOD Mexican meal at Padilla's. As it turned out, it was the only authentic Mexican meal I got to enjoy on this entire trip. Believe me, that was not how I had planned it to be.

Kitty, is my 4th Blog Friend to meet in real life. What a sweetheart and pure joy. She is everything I knew her to be........especially a #1 mom!

Because her daughter, Katie, was out of school that day I had the unexpected joy of meeting her, which made my 5th Blog Friend. Katie has her own blog, The Young Artist, and quite the young artist she is. She was as delightful as her mother, and such a wonderful young teenager and daughter. We also had the pleasure of Jamey, Kitty's 19 month old son. He was a real cutie, but a little shy with me at the restaurant.

My forever friend, Joan, accompanied me and was delighted to meet Kitty, Katie & Jamey. This gave her a little taste of why I love blogging so much. The 4 of us talked non-stop and it was such a fun time.

We wanted to meet Kitty's other children so at 4 Mickey & I drove over to Kitty's place as the other 3 children came in from school.

The Miss Kitty gang: Katie, Jamey, Kitty, Marc, Frances & John

The kids came right in and started on their homework, without having to be told!! All of them are delightful, polite and very self confident. John played his violin for us and is excited about going to be in a school program soon. The violin had belonged to his mom. Kitty. You held out on us not telling us you played the violin!! Katie showed us her art work and played the guitar for us. We "purchased" one of Katie's sketches and made her sign it for us. Frances is adorable and precious. She took the picture of the rest of us below. Even Jamey warmed up to us now that he was in the comfort of his own domain!!!

A picture is worth a thousand words and I think you can tell by our faces just the special time this was for us.

Keep Kitty and these precious 5 children in your prayers.

Hope to see you ALL again some time.

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Kitty presented us with these special gifts: a lovely Anniversary card signed by the entire family, a wonderful orange & cranberry candle and the cross with I Corinthians 13 description of "Love". Note the two tiny gold rings in the center and the 50 at the bottom.

A grand meeting with a wonderful person, a wonderful family and "2 for 1" Blog Friends. One of the special things about Kitty is she is one of the "Pray-ers" on The Hearts In One Accord 24/7 Prayer Blog and I know she, and these 4 young kids, were praying for our trip & Mickey's surgery.
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Tomorrow - meeting ANOTHER (#6) Blog Friend!!!!!!