What The Cats Have Been Doing All Summer…

We have very interesting cats in this household. Midnight is a, ahem, bit overweight, black, 8-year old cat. She loves to leave me little “surprises” outside of dads door in the morning to clean up. She likes her attention at eleven o’clock at night, and she can’t wait for a few hours to go to the bathroom, she MUST go at four o’clock in the morning. She’s very picky about who holds her. Now, she won’t let anybody but me hold her. Apparently, nobody else does it right. 

 Calvin is the next kitty on the list. He’s a white, active, one-year old kitty cat. He loves his bouncy balls to play with. When he loses his ball though, you better be there to get it for him! He likes to help you get them, too. Like Midnight, Whitney is the only one that can hold him correctly. Whitney has had a preference for Calvin since they went to Grandma Gayle’s to get the troublemakers. If she gives Calvin too much attention, he will follow her around ALL day! 

Hobbes is the last cat. Of course, you can’t have a Calvin without a Hobbes. Hobbes is the talkative one. He will talk to you all day, if he stayed up long enough. Hobbes and Midnight have one thing in common, they are both lazy! They wouldn’t mind if you put their food in front of them while they slept, with the litter box right next to the bed. When Calvin and Hobbes go outside for the night, Calvin chases bugs, while Hobbes climbs the Oak tree, that is taller than the two-story house, all the way up. I joke that Calvin is the tamest, Hobbes is the craziest, and Midnight is average.

These cats are just plain weird!

Welcome To My World

This year I’m starting high school, finally being left home by myself, and learning to start being more mature. This is going to be a big load this year, but I know at the end of the year I will be proud of myself, if I can keep everything up.

      Mom is in her student teaching this year. She is almost done, and can’t wait to be done with driving in to town every day.

      Megan is finishing her associates year at the community college, then she’ll be off to the big college. She’s not very thrilled for all the forty minute drives.

      Shelby is starting college at a local school. It’s very hard to believe she’s old enough to go to college. I still picture her when she was going to Driver’s Ed.

      Whitney is going into fifth grade this year. She isn’t very thrilled that I only have four textbooks and a couple of reading books this year, while she has two box-full’s of textbooks and worksheets.

      The hardest part of staying home, by myself, is going to be one, little blue-eyed wonder: Demon. So far he’s been doing pretty good and not getting into a lot of things. But, he did rip apart a pillow today. I just hope that he’ll be good for me and not try to run away.

      I can hardly wait until Monday when I start school! I know that sounds weird, coming from a 9^th grader, but I love doing my schoolwork. I am especially looking forwards to seeing what teachers I’ll be getting, and (cross your fingers) I don’t get the swine flu this year!!!