A Special Delivery Arrives On Sunday

I've been hinting for a couple of weeks now that something's happening in June. Well, now June has arrived, and we're less than a week from the big day. The day we get a special delivery. Yes. It's happening on Sunday.

First, a bit of backstory:

When I was a teenager, I heard a name I loved at once, which I kept to use for the son I one day hoped to have.

I named my potential daughter then too, though my favourite girl's name changed so often I just went ahead and used whichever name I liked best at the time for my female furbabies, even if I'd been considering it for a potential daughter's name. I just have too many favourite girls' names. Megan, Jayde, Lucy, Luna, Cara, Skye, Mollie, Maizie, and Lilie - all of those are names I've loved for my potential daughter (among other names) and have ended up calling various furbabies. Though Lucy and Luna weren't actually named by us.

Of course, I liked the names I gave our male furbabies too. Jacob and Joshua would have made great people baby names, for example. But most of my boys - along with some of my girls - have had names I liked, but would be reluctant to give to a human baby. Like Kero. Partially - though not entirely - because the boy's name I loved most was one I was unwilling to use, just in case I actually did one day have the opportunity to use it for a human child, since I never once changed my mind about wanting that to be the name for my potential son. Not in all the years since I first heard the name.

But, since I needed to have a hysterectomy to improve my quality of life - in fact, to save it - so I now know that opportunity can never come, I'm going to be giving the name to a furbaby after all.

Yeah, you probably saw that one coming the moment I started mentioning the furkids, didn't you?

If you're wondering: no. This is not a spur of the moment decision. We've been talking about it for a while, and I've been thinking about it even longer. We only held off until now because of me spending so much time in hospital, and being so unwell. Not to mention the issues we were having with nasty neighbour. It wasn't fair to bring a new furbaby in to the family under those circumstances. Now nasty neighbour is gone, I'm doing so much better, and our appointments are only outpatient appointments, it's not so bad, and we feel it's time.

The new addition to the family will be arriving this weekend. He arrives on Sunday (June 9th 2019) - the day he turns eight weeks old.

I've been following his progress closely since he was born in mid April (April 14th) and next week will tell you all about him - including what kind of furbaby he is - in a post that will include plenty of photos, as well as a short video.

Feel free to try and guess what he might be in the meantime. I won't tell you if you guess right... Not until next week anyhow. But it would be interesting to see if I've given you enough hints that you manage to figure it out.

His name, by the way, is Logan.