It just happened that by coincidence that there was kitten food on sale at CVS, so my mother bought as much as possible with the coupons that she had. We now have a mother cat and three kittens that come up on our backyard deck and sit expectantly by the door every morning and wait for food. (The downside, though, is that these are stray cats, and thus they go hunting. I recently found some spoiled meat on my deck. Ew.)
This gets better, though. The kittens have become so comfortable with us that when we go to get food from the kitchen (which is at the other end of the house), the kittens will come in the house and just walk around. That is, until they see the familiar aluminum tray with their breakfast in it, when they run back out onto the deck and then almost literally jump over your arm to get to the food, while the mother just sits there with this look in her eyes that says, "That's right, you just put it down. Now back off."
Here are some pictures:
