Ok, it's Christmas Eve, and I'm not allowed to open any gifts yet. Not even ONE!

So what do I do? I head out to Petco or Petsmart and gather loot for the cats. I head straight for the 10% off section because my cats WILL loose toy mice right away. They hoard them under the fridge or stove, or sometimes in Scott's sneakers.

I bought them not just any kind of mouse today. I bought *sparkly* mice. Not just any sparkly mice either. Apparently these mice are made with a hard wad of cat-nip wrapped in sparkly seisal rope. All I can say is that all of them were infatuated with these mice for 10 minutes, then the magic was over.

What a fabulous 10 minutes though! All of them had the crazies, and I'm sure most of the mice are under the fridge or stove.

One of the other things about Christmas is that my mom used to tell me on Christmas eve animals could talk. Scott does not believe it, but it's one Christmas story I do think about every year.

He thinks I'm crazy anyway. Especially if I can hold a complete conversation with 5 different cats at once.