How I almost got replaced!

Meet Hemingway!

About a month ago, Mom decided that she REALLY needed to get a kitten, well actually she thought we needed two because, in Mom's logic, if we only got one then it would be lonely and have no one to play with. Even though we already have three dogs and an old cranky cat who potentially could be the kitten's playmate.  So we got two kittens - Hemingway and Boo ( Boo's - slightly anti-social)

Anyway - Hemingway's favorite thing to do is help Mom write. As you can see in the picture above, he likes to sit on the keyboard and type with her.  Right here he is stepping on the Enter button and watching the screen go down. He really thinks that he owns Mom and her writing area. 

Lets just say that for the first week - Mom thought it was cute when he did it, and I was getting a little worried that little Hemingway was going to take my job and become Mom's personal assistant. But as the weeks have gone by, Hemingway has become a little more aggressive and not only uses the Enter button, but prances joyfully across the entire keyboard.  And, quite frankly, Hemingway is a bad speller.  So, especially because Mom is on deadline, and Hemingway has learned to stepped on the Delete button, he is no longer allowed in the room during working hours.  

So now I have my own little assistant who likes to jump on me and my keyboard.

I think it's safe to say I won't be getting replaced any time soon. :)

I think we may have gone OVERBOARD...

Christmas has officially invaded the Reid house.

Normally Christmas decorating doesn't start until the day after Thanksgiving. We all go to William's Tree Farm and we cut down the PERFECT tree. Well, this year we went a week early, due to my lovely, sister Katie and her adorable daughter coming to visit us. 

So for the past two weeks we have been decorating the house for Christmas and lets just say we have a LOT of decorations. A good rule of thumb to follow is that you should probably not buy more Christmas decorations until you get the old stuff out to see what you have. But REALLY where's the fun in that. 

The other day, I, walked into my parents house find Mom rearranging ALL of the furniture just to fit our HUGE Christmas tree and all of the other million Christmas knickknacks that we have. I think when you have to move everything around in your house to fit decorations you might have a problem.On the plus side when you move furniture you get to clean all the places you have missed for longer than you'd like to admit. But anyway, after a couple hours of lifting and debating if we really liked it there or not, we were finished. I don't know if any of you get exhausted putting up Christmas, but we defiantly were. But we LOVED the results - Christmas surrounded us in every corner. 

After all the craziness, we settled down to do another Christmastime tradition - watch the Hallmark Channel Christmas movies. We could seriously watch them ALL day long. 

Anyway, Mom is now back in her office finishing up Mary O'Reilly 14 and, other than the little Christmas tree in her office, she's stopped her decoration madness and is concentrating on what's REALLY important - WRITING! But, I heard her exclaim, ere she worked on her book - Happy Christmas Decorating to all, don't you love our new look?!?!