Valentine Kitty

Can't forget sweet Butterscotch the lazy cat on Valentine's!

Invasion of the Cat Burglar

So picture this. DD11 is sitting on the "throne". She's alone in the house...I'm at work, the "boys" are asleep. Suddenly, she hears a noise in the bathtub. Unable to arise and discover the source of the noise, she sits quietly, contemplating the causes. A mouse? A burglar? A CAT burglar? Suddenly, a head appears. A furry orange & white head. Thankfully, it was nothing more serious than the dreaded cat burglar.

So now we have discovered why our septic system gurgles and blurbles. The cat has been bathing while we are away, and filling our septic tank. I thought he'd smelled sweet and clean lately ;-)

The Well Educated....

Are you well educated? Could you be? Any homeschooler has probably at least HEARD of The Well Educated Mind so that's a good place to start, right? How else could you be well educated? Let me count the ways!

We find out that NH Imports the Well Educated.
Your well can be well educated too...now isn't that a deep subject, LOL?
And just what DOES it mean to be well educated, anyway? (Great article, btw!)

So anyway, I'm pretty sure you didn't predict the direction this was going to go...but my cat is well educated, too. Here's the proof!

Every time I sit down to read to my kids--that's the Sonlight Core 1 schedule on my lap, btw--Butterscotch appears. I know it's because he wants to learn. Otherwise, why would he insist on being as close as possible to the great books we're reading?

No HOME would be complete....

....without a cat curled up sleeping somewhere! This one prefers a fleece blankie. Have blankie, will snooze ;-)

Krazy Kat

OK, some of you know we adopted a cat in April. Yes, me, the sworn cat-hater. OK, really I didn't HATE cats, as long as they were someone else's cat and they weren't trying to eat the wildlife around my birdfeeders. I just didn't want to be owned by a cat myself! But, after much prodding, whining, and cajoling from my beloved offspring, I gave in to their desire to be pet owners. Having been down the dog ownership road before(kennel fees when we went on vacation, dog hair everywhere, dog lying on the floor waiting to trip me in the middle of the night when I got up to tend to babies, falling OVER dog on floor with baby in arms, being awakened to let dog out to use Mother Nature one too many times!) I really had no desire to repeat that experience any time soon. Sooooooo I gave in and we are owned by our cat, Butterscotch. And I love him to bits. Some days he's almost like a dog, even ;-) Except he never begs to go outside. Well, almost never. At least not at Dark-thirty o'clock ;-)

Anyway, the whole reason for this long-windedness is to say that he's silly. I know cats are supposed to like bags to be in. Butterscotch mostly prefers boxes. And the tops of chairs, preferably if you're sitting in said chair so he can thump your head with his tail a time or two ;-) Last night ds5 and I were snuggled in my bed reading stories and I kept hearing the rustle of a plastic bag. I couldn't figure out where it was coming from, until I finally discovered Butterscotch in the corner in a plastic garbage bag where I've been collecting outgrown clothing to be donated! When he discovered we'd spotted him, he just stopped and sat there so cute with his little face peaking out. The kids were in stitches over his antics. Guess next time we can't find him, there'll be yet another place to look ;-)

OK, I succumb

My children have been begging for a pet. Apparently the fish that they begged for aren't good enough. I think they are. They come when they're called. They don't make messes in the house. They love me very much, as evidenced by their wriggling frantically every time I walk past the fishtank, LOL. But that doesn't matter to children, I guess.

So we are about to embark on the adventure of pet ownership again. We are going to adopt a kitty. Or two, if the children have their way! I do like that PetSmart helps cats and dogs find new homes, so that's where we'll be doing it thru. So now we have to go there at least once a week to see if there's a cat (or cats) that we like yet. They have a pet adoption weekend the first weekend in May, and I've talked to the cat lady already, and she says she'll have lots of cats there then, including kittens. The good thing is, all of the cats are already neutered and up-to-date on their shots and stuff, and the price is definitely MUCH less than if we were to procure free kittens from my dad's friend and then have to take them to the vet to get that stuff done (YIKES!!!)

Will post feline pictures and updates when the grand adoption happens. I'm already, a little bit, getting anxious. I think it's going to be fun .