From: "Judy Browning" <judylee@lewiston.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:50 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Happy Mother's Day Story
> Just had to share this story my friend Claudia sent me. Wish I knew who
> the author was. Something here for anyone who loves kids or cats or a
good
> chuckle.
> Judy B z 6 Idaho
>
>
> So, we had this great 10 year old cat named Jack who just recently
> died.
> Jack was a great cat and the kids would carry him around and sit on him
> and nothing ever bothered him. He used to hang out and nap all day long
> on this mat in our bathroom. Well we have 3 kids and at the time of
> this
> story they were 4 years old, 3 years old and 1 year old. The middle one
> is Eli. Eli really loves chapstick. LOVES it. He kept asking to use my
> chapstick and then losing it. So finally one day I showed him where in
> the bathroom I keep my chapstick and how he could use it whenever he
> wanted to but he needed to put it right back in the drawer when he was
> done. Last year on Mother's Day, we were having the typical rush around
> and try to get ready for Church with everyone crying and carrying on.
> My
> two boys are fighting over the toy in the cereal box. I am trying to
> nurse my little one at the same time I am putting on my make-up.
> Everything is a mess and everyone has long forgotten that this is a
> wonderful day to honor me and the amazing job that is motherhood. We
> finally have the older one and the baby loaded in the car and I am
> looking for Eli. I have searched everywhere and I finally round the
> corner to go into the bathroom. And there was Eli. He was applying my
> chapstick very carefully to Jack's . . . rear end. Eli looked right
> into
> my eyes and said "chapped." Now if you have a cat, you know that he is
> right--their little butts do look pretty chapped. And, frankly, Jack
> didn't seem to mind. And the only question to really ask at that point
> was whether it was the FIRST time Eli had done that to the cat's behind
> or the hundredth.
> And THAT is my favorite Mother's Day moment ever because it reminds us
> that no matter how hard we try to civilize these glorious little
> creatures, there will always be that day when you realize they've been
> using your chapstick on the cat's butt.
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