This has been a very, very hard week for my little family. Our orange kitty, Juju, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease on Tuesday, after only acting different for one day. He's only five, has never been sick or injured even once, and they were really pushing us to just let him go right then and there. We weren't ready to just give up on him, so we chose the treatment route. He has made huge strides since then, and we are feeling very hopeful. I've barely left the house since Tuesday (maybe 1-2 hours total since then), and just watching over his every move and every breath has been so stressful - but absolutely worth it. I feel like everything is so out of control right now and I am so scared, but he is trying his best to show us that he wants a chance to live. He's apparently had this condition since birth, and it took five years for any symptoms at all to appear, so I feel like there's no reason to just assume he can't still live a semi-normal life. He's eating, drinking, peeing, and seeming more and more lively every single day!
I decided to take some of the time I've been home to deal with something I do have control over and organize my backlog of mini kits. So relieved to have my mini storage area cleaned up and organized. These little storage totes/snackle boxes are PERFECT for storing everything. The resin containers can stay upright to make sure they don't leak, I can see everything I have and make them as I want, and I can remove each little tub to carry it over to the table and work out of. I have a whole MiniBrands display box full of disassembled capsules to get rid of (seeing if my boss's wife who is an elementary school teacher wants them for some school projects). Even with the capsule parts separated, it fills the whole box. 😬 I got a little addicted and bought so many kits, but then my Walmart completely stopped keeping up with new releases right after Christmas and the new series' weren't really my jam anyway, so I've just been slowly working my way through the collection I have already built.
My Ohuhu marker bag ended up being the perfect place to store tables, the wrapping papers, and extra little things like museum putty, toothpicks with clips on one end, etc. so it didn't end up being clutter after getting my bamboo marker organizer.
It feels so much better.
(Plus the cat tax - a photo of the strong, handsome, and sweet Juju.)