Cleaning

I'm sure it's not just me that goes through this. I spent a couple hours vacuuming and mopping the floors in our house. During this time Liesl gets banned to the backyard, and sometimes the cats do too.

The floors look great. And it never fails... when I finish, I ultimately end up looking around, and say to myself, "This is what my house could look like without pets."

In a world without them our house would be sparkling, we would have more money, we wouldn't have to replace sprinkler heads every month (and by we, I guess I mean Josh), our carpet would still be in it's better days, and we wouldn't buy Costco-sized amounts of lint rollers. We would also have a much easier time dropping everything and doing what we want, when we want.

But in a world without them I would have no one to sleep on my chest at night, and sit on my legs as if they were a tree branch (thank you Khelana).

I'd also have no one to whine at me to throw his toy (yes my cat plays fetch), and play with the laundry while I fold it (thank you Ruki).

And there would be no one to bark at the evil vacuum (which is obviously trying to attack me), and no one to look at me with those big brown eyes like I am the greatest thing in the world (Thank you Liesl).

Yeah... I guess I'll keep them, :-)