Well, since you asked :-) Gypsy is fine, mini-break through, she climbed the stairs to the landing on her own. She has been "reluctant" to climb the stairs to the second floor until then. :-)
Speaking of pets...I have a pet-related prayer request. Cleo (cat #3) is going in for her surgury tomorrow. From the kinds of things the vet said during her checkup, I'm afraid she may have the kitty version of breast cancer. How serious that would be, I don't know. I'm hoping it's something this one surgury can cure...if it isn't, I may have to make a tough decision, and I'm really hoping it doesn't come to that.
She's really started to settle down over the last few months. When I got her, any little sound would make her practically jump out of her skin and go crazy and wild-eyed, and something as simple as shifting position when holding her would completely freak her out. Makes me wonder what her past was like, though from all I know of her, she lived in a nice home with just one teenage girl and her mother. Maybe it was too quiet there compared to here, I don't know!
But now...she's even coming out and greeting guests a bit, and has seemed very content and happy. That's positive, no matter how this ends.