Mother's Day

This comes from Have Children Will Travel... http://havechildrenwilltravel.blogspot.com/

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
mychapstick 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 onlyquestion 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.


So I read that last week and it made me laugh out loud. I thought it was hysterical! Then my 10 year old treated me to three different kinds of lip balm for mother's day. Is she reading my blog or trying to make up for something that I don't know about?