[AT] Mother's Day Gift

[John & Jan Paur]

Now that is terrible but FUNNY!!!  John

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From: "H. L. Staples" <hlstaples at mcloudteleco.com>
To: "Antique tractor" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:11 PM
Subject: [AT] Mother's Day Gift


> Kinda slow so here you go.
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> H. L. 
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> "Why my lips stayed chapped on Mother's Day" 
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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. 
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> Well we have 3 kids and at the time of this story they were 4 years old, 
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> 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 
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> 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 cere al 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. 
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> 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 
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> chapstick 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. 
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> And the only question to really ask at that point was whether it was the 
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> 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 
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> no matter how hard we try to civilize th ese 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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