Too Funny Not to Share

I received this in an email from a friend of mine...cracks me up!

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 the mat in our bathroom. We have 3 kids and at the time
of this story they were 4 years old, 3 years old and 1 year old.

The middle one is Eli. Eli really loved chap stick. LOVED it. He
kept asking to use my chap stick and then losing it.

Finally one day I showed him where in the bathroom that I kept my
chap stick and explained he could use it whenever he wanted to but he
needed to put it right back in the drawer after he finished because I
used it sometimes several times a day.
That year, on Mother's Day, we were having the typical rush around to
try to get ready for church with everyone crying and carrying on. My
two boys are fighting over the toy in the cereal 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.

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 go into
the bathroom.

There was Eli. He was applying my chap stick 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
bottoms do look pretty chapped. And, frankly, Jack didn't seem to
mind. And the only question to ask at that point was whether it was
the 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 no matter how hard we try to civilize these glorious little
creatures, there will always be that day when you realize... they've
been using your chapstick on the cat's butt.