Kitten Energy

Trouble has such amazing energy. I swear his head is turning even as he dozes. He has learned to leap tall couches in a single bound and escape where we had him penned in the family room so we could eat. He has learned that the hubs' blanket is warm - very warm as it is a heating blanket and makes a perfect napping place. He has learned that hubs' putting green in the family room makes a fantastic scratching post for his claws that I trimmed today. He has learned that I get angry at him and his nose gets hit and I say 'NO' in a very firm tone when he starts chewing on cords, especially my mouse cord. He is learning that we do not like our toes licked nor played with nor bitten. That lesson I think will take a bit to learn.

But hubs and son need to learn that when I am working at the computer, it is not the time to suddenly get tired of watching him and decide to dump him on my desk which in turn had Trouble knocking my glass of water onto everything on my desk and saturating it and my keyboard and adding machine.

It actually reminded me of today's sermon -

By jumping to a conclusion that was logical but untrue, one can come dangerously close to unnecessary conflict. The Israelites did the same thing. They were ready to go to war because they wrongly assumed that the altar built by their brothers was a sign of rebellion against God (Josh. 22:9-34). To avoid making wrong judgments, we must be careful to get the facts right.

When you’re forming your opinions,
Do it carefully—go slow;
Hasty judgments oft are followed
By regretting—that I know.
—Anon.

Maybe my thinking of it as I was cleaning up the full glass of water covering my desk was to remind me not to spew forth the words that were definitely building in my mouth. I thought them though.

Kittens - where do they get so much energy? I want and need to bottle it. The picture above is only 1 that actually turned out because when he is awake, he is never still.