I'm sending this in an email to Dave (my husband) tomorrow. 

Dear Dave,

As I write this I have a very small black kitten sitting in my lap.  She's been here for an hour now, and she sits like this quite regularly...if my lap is available, she's sitting in it. She seeks me out to come sit with me.  Today she patted at my ankles until I picked her up. 

Spot-a-rooni was the last born and the smallest of Pixie's babies.  When she came out she didn't breathe and I had to clear her airways and blow into her little nose in order to get her to take her first breath.  I think this may have had an effect on her - she's always been the slowest of all the kittens.  If you remember, I told you at one point that I thought she might be deaf or blind, because while the other kittens were off playing and climbing, she was just sitting there, gazing vacantly into space. She's doing 'normal' feline things now, but she's still the quietest and calmest of all the kittens, much preferring my company to that of her siblings.  She likes to watch TV with me, and when I'm working on the computer she watches the screen and my fingers as they move across the keyboard.

I know that I said I wouldn't get attached to any of them....and I know that I said we weren't going to take any pets with us when we move....but she really is a love and I've found myself quite enamoured with her.  I've known her since before she was born, I've watched her grow.  She's adorable, black with a tiny white spot on her chest and green eyes.  She's a good girl too, she hasn't pooped any where but her litter box and she doesn't claw up the furniture and tear around the house like a mad thing, knocking things down and causing mayhem in general (she leaves that to her brothers and sisters).

So, please, will you consider letting me keep her?  She's not any trouble at all.....and I'll be responsible for feeding her and cleaning the cat box, I won't ask you to do any of it.  I'll keep her out of your stuff and away from your dress uniforms, and I won't let her sleep on the bed at night.  I just don't know how well she'll do with anyone else. Like I said, she's a little slow, and it breaks my heart to think of anyone being mean to her because she's not quite all there....

...please, Dave?  She really is the sweetest little thing, I think you'll like her too.....

You loving wife,

Karen.

D'yall think this will work?