Ho! Ho! Mew!

Yes, I will be posting another carol verse tomorrow.  Too much to do today.  Got the fifth and last tree into the house, unbound and decorated.  Wonder of wonders, husband helped me out with it.  He sat in the chair and posed "Trivial Pursuit" questions to me while I put the lights and garland on, but he stepped right up and helped hang the ornaments, once I had sorted through them and weeded out the ones that had seen better days (We have a lot of ornaments that I have acquired from every craft show under the sun over the years. They often come out of the box after their fifth or sixth season in the crawl space looking...less than fresh.  I have learned that hot glue does NOT last forever.  Some day I'll sit down and re-glue all the ones that have come from together.  But not today...)

I received the following in an email from my sister today.  Anyone with animals, particularly feline animals, in the house at Christmas will step up and shout amen! after reading this.  I found it absolutely hilarious, and extremely apropos, considering we recently acquired our seventh and eighth cats.  The adult cats are bad enough...but the babies!  Their sole mission in life these days is to eat Christmas. 

Anyway, here is

"The Twelve Cats of Christmas"

On the first day of Christmas;
when I brought home my tree,
My 12 cats were laughing at me.

On the second day of Christmas;
I saw beneath my tree,
Two mangled garlands,
and my twelve cats laughing at me

On the third day of Christmas;
I saw beneath my tree,
Three missing Wise Men,
Two mangled garlands,
and my Twelve cats laughing at me.

On the fourth day of Christmas;
I saw beneath my tree,
Four males a-spraying,
Three missing Wise Men,
Two mangled garlands,
and my twelve cats laughing at me.

On the fifth day of Christmas;
I saw beneath my tree,
Five shredded gifts,
Four males a-spraying,
Three missing Wise Men,
Two mangled garlands,
and my twelve cats laughing at me.

On the sixth day of Christmas;
I saw beneath my tree,
Six fallen angels,
Five shredded gifts,
Four males a-spraying,
Three missing Wise Men,
Two mangled garlands,
and my twelve cats laughing at me.

On the seventh day of Christmas;
I saw beneath my tree,
Seven half-dead rodents,
Six fallen angels,
Five shredded gifts,
Four males a-spraying,
Three missing Wise Men,
Two mangled garlands,
and my twelve cats laughing at me.

On the eighth day of Christmas;
I saw beneath my tree,
Eight shattered ornaments,
Seven half-dead rodents,
Six fallen angels,
Five shredded gifts,
Four males a-spraying,
Three missing Wise Men,
Two mangled garlands,
and my twelve cats laughing at me.

On the ninth day of Christmas;
I saw beneath my tree,
Nine chewed-through light strings,
Eight shattered ornaments,
Seven half-dead rodents,
Six fallen angels,
Five shredded gifts,
Four males a-spraying,
Three missing Wise Men,
Two mangled garlands,
and my twelve cats laughing at me.

On the tenth day of Christmas;
I saw beneath my tree,
Ten tinsel hairballs,
Nine chewed-through light strings,
Eight shattered ornaments,
Seven half-dead rodents,
Six fallen angels,
Five shredded gifts,
Four males a-spraying,
Three missing Wise Men,
Two mangled garlands,
and my twelve cats laughing at me.

On the eleventh day of Christmas;
I saw beneath my tree,
Eleven broken branches,
Ten tinsel hairballs,
Nine chewed-through light strings,
Eight shattered ornaments,
Seven half-dead rodents,
Six fallen angels,
Five shredded gifts,
Four males a-spraying,
Three missing Wise Men,
Two mangled garlands,
and my twelve cats laughing at me.


On the twelfth day of Christmas;
I looked at my poor tree.

Twelve cats a-climbing,
Eleven broken branches,
Ten tinsel hairballs,
Nine chewed-through light strings,
Eight shattered ornaments,
Seven half-dead rodents,
Six fallen angels,
Five shredded gifts,
Four males a-spraying,
Three missing Wise Men,
Two mangled garlands,

And my twelve cats still laughing at me...