Routines

So Emmy is getting ready to come over today. Things around here seem to have stabilized over the past couple weeks to a good routine where no one is overly scared or hiding all the time.

Here's how a typical day goes...

Biscuit is usually sleeping at my feet on the bed, Millie is on the loveseat by the window upstairs and Pepe is wandering around (it's hard to know what she's up to at all times because she's usually out of sight, but not in a frightened way anymore).

My alarm goes off and Biscuit moves closer to my head where I pet her for a few minutes. I get up and Pepe is always at the bedroom door rubbing her face against the frame and meows in her tiny, non-grown up kitten meow, and then runs away (I think she's trying to get me to follow her to the food bowls).

I get ready for work and Millie is still on the couch, Biscuit is looking out the window or walking around the kitchen/living room and Pepe is sometimes wandering the kitchen or out of sight. Sometimes Millie or Biscuit are waiting on the bottom of the scratching post, staring at the food bowls. Sometimes Pepe walks up to the (currently empty) bowls and sniffs them (nope, still no food). We usually feed them after we're done getting ready for work, before we eat breakfast.

When the food is placed in the bowl, there is a line up (or 'queue' as you might say in the UK ;)), and it's a crapshoot (I'm sure you don't use or hear this word overseas) who will 'win'. Sometimes Pepe gets in there first, and Biscuit and Millie are lined up near the scratching post or sometimes we don't even see Pepe eat at all (must eat after we leave for work).

So we leave and when we come home from work, Biscuit greets us 99% of the time. Millie is on the couch and Pepe sometimes comes around too. The dinner  time is not so dramatic or structured as breakfast. M and I settle in for the evening and Millie and Biscuit are usually close by just hanging out and sometimes (once or twice a week) running around together, and Pepe comes in and out of the pictures throughout the evening to say 'hi' and get a pet or a walk around the house in my arms. They are such sweeties.


So....Emmy I'm sure will disrupt (not in a bad way, just different I'm sure!) this routine, let's see what happens!!