Man it’s taken me a while to get this new blog started. But better late than never!
I wanted this blog to be a combo of two of my strong interests–the Catholic Church/Faith, and all-things-Animal! So here you have it…
It has become now crucial that we (husband, myself, cat) get ourselves out of Amarillo. TX, where we currently live, because we confirmed it via test today that I’m pregnant with our first child!! YAAAY! And we want our child to grow up in the Church.
I mean, for real. In the Traditional, Ancient, Faithful Catholic Church. And though there are over 50 parishes in Amarillo, they are none of them traditional–most barely look like church buildings, let alone resemble a Catholic Church. The Novus Ordo Masses are infected with near-Protestantism, and even without the influence, they seem to have taken everything that developed badly after Vatican 2 “to the nines”, as it were, in a downward spiral—heading the Church towards modernism, and Universalism.
Now, as someone who was a pretty dedicated Protestant for about 25yrs, and who knows all the upbeat worship songs sung even in the Catholic parishes here…and as someone who knows all the Protestant hymns, you may wonder how I can be so anti. But the truth is, I left my Protestant backround because it was empty, and I sought the Church–as Christ had established it; centered around sacrifice and worship of the Almighty, around truth and tradition. Not a church wherein there are 500 denominations and everyone thinks everyone is wrong, but it’s ok.
I had first looked deeply into the Eastern Orthodoxy, as I had a best friend who was strongly pursuing it. I would’ve become Orthodox, too. The ancient faith, so close to Christ, so far from scattered, always-changing-Protestantism—appealed to me, to my heart. But I had some issues with the dissention in the Orthodox Church, and their lack of leadership, etc..
Then I met my husband (on a theology forum, actually!), and he began the task of setting me straight, heh. God used him in a huge way–not just to melt my heart, but soul. I got to speak with a wonderful Monsignor, who helped me understand the few vital issues I was having, and I realized where I belonged (this is all the short version).
I was sadly rushed through a sort of crash-course RCIA class, and so am still a new convert, with quesitons. I often struggle with the Church, due to the infectious modernism, and the hypocricy that seems to lace it–especially here in America…But I am learning, and so very blessed to be under God’s roof and His true Church.
So annnnyway. My hubby is a strong Latin Mass supporter, and while I am a hard-core American (i.e., meaning I have a hard time thinking everything shouldn’t be in American English!!), I realize that if nothing else, the Traditional High Mass is where reverance and serentiy and true worship is.
Amarillo, TX has nothing of this kind. Not to say the Priests are not good people, or the parishoners aren’t kind–we have met some great people, and a local Priest is a wonderful Confessor! But we want to raise our new family where the tradition is that of the Church, of Christ–not of ever-changing society for the sake of “everyone’s safe and comfortable!”

So we’re looking to move our up-coming (should be around June ‘09!) family towards Colorado Springs, within the next month, to join a small parish there, with the traditional High Mass—instead of struggling to find a reason to be in the Novus Ordo every week (What ARE those green banners hanging above the alter?!).
On an Animal Note…
Being pregnant keeps me from my newest desire–the little orange kitten (1 of 4 in a litter) that my neighbor’s cat had almost 6 weeks ago. Husband insists we can’t afford a new kitten, even though he loves orange cats, and really wants a cat that will like him, and grow up knowing him… MY BABY, Berzerker Quaxo Milo, enjoys hubby when he must, and tolerates him quite a bit–
But he is MY KITTEN, and knew me nearly 3yrs before he even met husband, so he isn’t quite husband’s cat! Plus, Berzerker has quite an odd personality, and is aptly named. 
Uh..that picture is huge…eh hem. At least it looks so in this editor. Hmm..
Anyway, so the little orange kitten, nearly old enough to leave its mother now, will have to go onto the list of “pets I wanted to get” because with a move looming ahead, and a new baby on the way, it’ll be enough to deal with. Although I think Berzerker could use the company (he gets bored)–I guess it might not be such a good idea right now either, till I can focus on the cat/s and watch them. My un-fixed male is pretty dominant, and would probably eat the little kitten when I wasn’t looking…