This is too cute! Happy Mother's Day!
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>Subject: Chap Stick
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>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.
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>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 chap stick 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.
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>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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>HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
