Step 1. Start your day as normal. Have some coffee. Eat some breakfast. Head off to work. No plans to acquire a new animal to add to your SIX already.

Step 2. Have your friend who KNOWS you can’t not help animals text you that there is a cat stuck in a tree outside your work.

Step 3. Go to this friend to assess the situation. I’m sure this cat has a good home, I’ll return him.

Step 4. Promptly walk out to the girl from the coffee shop next door crying because she picked a kitten up on the way into work because it was running in the road and her parents told her if she brought a kitten home she was dead meat.

Step 5. Realize you are already in too deep and you should have stayed in the break room where there were no kittens.

Step 6. Go retrieve the kitten from UNDER the tree (misinformation from your friend, she really needs to work on her communication skills).

Step 7. Think to yourself s**t my husband is going to kill me.

Step 8. Think to yourself WTF am I going to do with this kitten you’re AT WORK?

Step 9. Bring kitten into your office. Quickly thank the Lord your boss is at lunch. Take a moment to formulate your plan of action. Be promptly interrupted by coworkers who want to pet the kitten. (Coworkers who want to pet the kitten but will not pony up and take her home when you remind them you ALREADY HAVE THREE CATS!!!)

Step 10. Get an empty box. Poke holes in box. Text your grandma (who hates animals) that you are on your way to drop a kitten at her house and will pick it up after work. Sweet grandma says oh ok sweetie!

Step 11. Not sweet grandma has come out when you get there and she says she thought you were going to put the kitten in the box in her garage in the 98 degree South Carolina August heat. No ma’am.

Step 12. Spend 15 minutes arguing with your grandma about where to put the cat.

Step 13. Settle for the laundry room. Tell her not to do laundry today.

Step 14. Head back to work to worry the rest of the day about whether or not the kitten will get out and your grandma will kill it.

Step 15. (I know this is lengthy stay with me here) text husband that you may or may not be bringing home a kitten just to FOSTER. You WILL find this kitten a home! Explain that the kitten would have died without you and you had no choice.

Step 16. Response from husband “🤦‍♂️ NO”

Step 17. Reply to husband “it’s too late, the kitten is at grandma’s. Have to get her when I get off.”

Step 18. Do not hear from husband rest of the day.

Step 19. Bring flea infested kitten home, keep her separated from the others obviously, she’s got fleas and is not staying.

Step 20. Rid kitten of fleas, take her to kitten well visit, halfheartedly try to find kitten new home because secretly you’re attached to this kitten and she loves you and you might fall into serious depression if you give her away.

Step 21. Realize kitten is yours. Decide what’s one more cat?

Step 22. Integrate kitten with other animals.

Step 23. Announce to everyone through social media you have a new adorable kitten!

Meet Molly!