Lion Cat

Halloween is a great time in my family. We hand out candy (5 large bags of candy), talk to all the trick or treaters, eat a "pumpizza", and an opportunity to dress up Zoey. Every year we search high and low to find her the perfect costume. This year we found a lion head. This costume I feel is the best yet! She is a calico print, and because of her coloring the lion head blends in perfectly with her fur coat. It is totally adorable. She totally hates the costume, but puts up with it enough for me to take pictures!


Here is the "Lion-Zoey" we all know and love...

As you an see the hate is a little too big. She manages to wiggle her cute little head out of the hat literally 10 seconds after we put it on. But isn't she so cute 😻

Cat Jammies

So..... there is no surprise that I like cats. There is also no surprise that I am forcing this love on to my child. My friends have also helped make this happen. But here is how the whole story starts...

Once James and I found out we were pregnant, we decided not to find out what we were having. This made it challenging for our friends to buy clothes for our soon to be child, and it meant we got more gift cards to later buy clothes of the appropriate gender. Anywhoo, my bestest friend, Mrs. Smith, got me a glorious supply of gifts that would help me as my new role as mommy. And one of those gifts was this great cat pajama set. It is pictured below. Some may say that it is a little too girlie for a little boy, but I love it because it shows our love for cats, and now I have successfully forced my cat obsession on to the whole family!

Luke in his adorable kitty pajamas!

Masters Program

This year, in addition to being pregnant, and a volleyball coach, and a teacher, I decided to also start my masters degree. This may have not been one of my brightest moments, but I decided to do it, and I will hopefully graduate with my friends May of 2019. I am seeking a Masters degree in Elementary Education. It has been a fun experience, and I am learning that there are many things I can work on as a teacher, and there are several things that I do well.

Now I am sure you are wondering where the cat part comes in.... well here it is. Zoey loves to hang out with my while I do my homework on Saturday mornings. We usually curl up on the couch, under the heaty blanket and attempt to finish my homework. Here is a picture to prove it....

It has gotten a little more challenging to work on my homework and cuddle with Zoey since Luke's arrival. But I am doing my best as a cat mom!

Meowy Chirstmas

So it is no surprise that I love cats. And this year, in addition to my cat-child, I was able to celebrate Christmas with my baby this year! I always love kitty-puns and I have now passed the tradition on to my family. As you can see in the picture below Luke is proudly supporting his "Meowy Christmas, Purr, Purr, Purr" onesie. I saw it on Amazon and I went for it! 

 It is also no surprise that my husband loves my cat just as much as I do. I have also managed to get him to love that cat puns and the cheesy shirts. He actually has several for almost every holiday! You will probably get to see those in the future posts! In this picture we are all wearing our cheesy cat sweaters, and more importantly Zoey is wearing a "human" Christmas sweater.

I know we added another person to our family, but we still want to make sure Zoey loves us and she knows that we love her all the same! So in great Orson fashion I wish you all a late "Meowy Christmas".

Cat Stroller

Yep. That's right. It's a thing. You can buy a stroller for your cat. And you can wheel this cat around the neighborhood in a stroller. I personally love the idea. And I had one all picked out to buy, and then shortly after found out I was pregnant and was going to need to use that money for baby things. So the stroller didn't happen. I know that Zoey would love the stroller and I have made it my mission to find a way to get Zoey to go on a walk with me. We have tried a leash (yes I am that person), and it did not work so well. Then the other day, I pulled out Luke's stroller and ZOEY JUMPED RIGHT IN! My cat stroller problems are solved!! We can all now go on walks as a family, and Zoey will be with us too! So if you see a lady with a cat in a stroller, don't worry it's just me, the crazy cat lady :)

Here is a picture to prove it!

Cat-urday Laziness

I love teaching, I love my job, I love being busy and having a million things to do at once.

But I also LOVE laying around in my jammies until noon with my family. I love sipping my coffee and enjoying it all day long. I love drinking it from and actual mug, not just a travel mug like I have to the rest of the week.  I love my baby all snuggled on my chest as I work on my Masters homework, and my cat sitting right above my head on the couch, keeping my ears warm.

I love these moments. I love when we can all be at home, in the same room and simply enjoy each others presence. These are the moments I live for. Here are some pictures to fully document, my wonderful Saturday....

 Baby Luke taking a nap in his swing 😍

 Zoey on her perch, protecting her little brother 😻

 Me loving on Zoey, I don't think she likes my love 😓

James just lounging trying to get the computer to work 😁

The Full Moon

This morning as I was driving to drop off Luke, and eventually make my way to work, I saw the Moon. To most people this would have been a glorious, beautiful sight, to a teacher, it is pure evil. I am a firm believer that the full moon has huge effects on behavior of students, adults, animals and pretty much any living thing. This week has been a long one, and I would love to blame it all on the moon.

Now, the moon effects all living things, and this week Zoey has been no exception. Tuesday night she was running around the house like a mad woman. Literally sprinting from room to room for no reason. I even tripped on her a couple of times! Then last night I caught her IN THE CABINET!!! Like next to the cups! What the heck cat??!! Well...she is already allowed on the counters, cause we have no boundaries.... but she jumped IN THE CABINET! This was a new one, and was super weird even for her. I swiftly kicked her out, but am glad that I now have hilarious stories to share with all of you!

So in conclusion, the next time a full moon is in full bloom, make sure to check your animals and note all the craziness they get in to!

Here we go again.....

The Slice of Life is upon us once again.... And once again, I am going to attempt to write about cats for 31 more days. This means that in total I will be writing about cats for 93 DAYS! Who knew someone could know so much about cats. Honestly, I am not even sure how I did this the first 2 times. Well I am up for the challenge, and if you try your hardest, anything is possible!

And to catch you all up on my life, this year I had a son on November 18th, 2017. So this blog may be more about him and my cat, but don't you worry I have some pretty interesting cat ideas all lined up. I can't wait to read about your life, and I hope you all enjoy the crazy cat lady blog that I am writing as well! 

Happy Slicing!😻

62 days

I did it. I wrote about my favorite animal for 62 days. 62 days. I would like to say this was so much easier to write about cats for 31 days the second time. I recommend making a list. Or you simply need to just take a BUNCH of pictures of cats and write about them for 31 days.

Anyway more importantly, I did it! I did the unthinkable. I can't wait to try to complete this task again. Then I will be at 93 days of cats! Zoey is gonna need to do some more cute and interesting things for me to write about. Anyway, as the last post of this year I am going to leave you with so super adorable pictures of Zoey to hold you off until next time!

Cat Quotes once more...

"A Cat will be your friend, but never your slave".

This is what my crazy cat calendar says about cats today. And you know what it is so true. Zoey will be my friend, she will sit on my face in the morning when she is hungry. She will sleep at the feet of my bed when it is night time. And she will greet me at the garage door when she hears the door go up. But Zoey would NEVER pour me my cereal. She would never help me pick out what shoes to wear. She would never make me coffee. If anything I am more the slave to Zoey than she is to me!

I wake up each morning at 5:00 and feed her. I give her a bath weekly. James cleans out her litter box. Our life literally revolves around this cat. Humans are the true slaves in the Human/Cat relationship.

But again I am fine with all of it! I love my cat-child Zoey and even though she won't actually help me do anything I know she loves me too!

Zoey's perspective on the "Red Dot"

Red Dot (the lazer pointer is moving all around the room)

Zoey: Oh em gee!! There is the red dot! I must catch it! Why is it moving away.

I move the lazer pointer in a circle

Zoey: Ahh I am so dizzy! But I can't stop, I must have the red dot!!!

Now I slow down the movement of the lazer pointer. 

Zoey: Oh I am catching my breath. Oh I can finally get the red dot!!

I continue to move the lazer pointer.

Zoey: I hate this so much. I want to stop. Why red dot? Why do you do this to me??

I turn the lazer pointer off.

Zoey: See I outsmarted it!! It is done!! 

I turn it back on.

Zoey: I will catch you red dot! I  will if it's the last thing I do!!

This continues for the rest of forever :)

Holly

Holly is my sisters first cat. Mom and Dad surprised us each with a cat when we were in Middle School. Holly has helped my sister sleep through the night and has always put up with my sisters crazy antics.

Well now Holly is 12. She is getting older and we have recently discovered that she has kitty arthritis. My mom was the one to discover this. Holly has some bald patches on her knees and around her joints. You see when cats are in pain they lick their wounds. Holly continues to lick her knees and her joints and the Doctor has said it is most likely arthritis.

My parents continue to baby her, Holly has her favorite spot on the couch that is only hers. If she gets up somewhere too high mom and dad are there to help her get down. We probably don't have many years left, but we will make all the days she has left count!

The toilet

The Toilet. Cats don't use toilets. Cats use nasty litter boxes. At least this is what I though until today...

Today Zoey flushed the toilet. She flushed it. She stood up on the toilet seat (the cover was down) and flushed the toilet! She actually did it! I called my mom to tell her this amazing feat and guess what! She said "yeah Kelsey, we potty trained our first cat!" What??!!?? This was all before I was born so apparently once my parents started having kids, they stopped teaching their cats to use the toilet!

Their first cat was named Woosey. They named her this because my dad wanted to call her the "Wonder Woose". That's right. My parents are weirder than me! Anyway, they potty trained her. Like the cat went poo poo in the potty! Apparently when you are training your cat to use the toilet you slowly move the litter box closer and closer to the toilet. Once the cat is comfortable you slowly put litter in the toilet until the cat uses the toilet. And then you give the cat a treat each time it flushes the toilet! So weird! But if you want to learn more about potty training cats, watch the youtube videos! It's crazy!

Cat Apps for the Ipad!

I know. It probably surprised you too. Well someone, somewhere made an App for CATS! Seriously, I am not the craziest cat person ever! This app is free, so you can all download it. If you type in "cat app" in the app store this is the only app that pops up! The idea of the app is to catch as many fish as you can in about a minute. The game automatically levels you up so it seems like the cat is doing a great job, but really she could just sit there and do nothing and would win the game!

I would also like to mention that two year olds also like to play this game almost as much as cats! There are several two year olds in my life group. Every time they see James or I they immediately start asking for the fish game! It's pretty precious.

More importantly here is a video of Zoey playing the fish game. She is also sitting in an oatmeal box...because you know cats...

A very kitty christmas

I love cats... at least the cat is out of the bag now hehehehehe.

Anyway I started writing this blog on cats last year. I encouraged all of my students as well as my family to read the blog. And since everyone did, I ended up with sooo many Christmas presents for my cat or about my weird cat obsession.

Here is the list of hilarious cat gifts that brought so much joy to my life...

1. This cat sign

2. A hilarious cat teacup

3. Cat leggings!

4. Christmas cat clothes for Zoey

5. An automatic cat lazer toy

6. A cat calendar

7. SOOO many cat balls/toys for Zoey to play with

8. Someone bought Zoey a really cute stocking holder for her little baby cat stocking :)

9. Zoey also got sooo much catnip and cat treats!

10.  And for the best surprise I bought myself the ugliest Christmas sweater ever!!

When I thought she couldn't surprise me anymore...

She jumped on the kitchen table...it wasn't that annoying, just gross.

Then she jumped on the kitchen counter...still weird, but I can bop her on the nose and push her off.

Then she jumped on the fridge....just plain nasty, but still not that shocking.

And then this happened....

She jumped on top of the upper counter! How did this happen?? I was doing laundry in the laundry room and I heard a weird noise. I ran to the kitchen and I found Zoey up here! How does this even happen?? I guess this is what happens when we don't have many boundaries...oops. 

Currently James is dusting up there so the next time she jumps up dust bunnies won't fall to the ground...

The Laundry Room

The Laundry Room.

It's loud, the dryer moves on it's own, Zoey's litter box is there, generally the washing machine is leaking water....and Zoey has a perch in this room.

You would think that all the above listed things would make Zoey hate this room. However, it is one of her favorite places. We have a window in the room that allows wind to finally blow through the whole house and Zoey loves to watch everything!

And as I listed above...our laundry room is falling apart! One weekend the clothes weren't getting dry, water was EVERYWHERE, the washer is so old that while it is working it moves, and sometimes dumps over her litter box. This room is a hot mess, I feel like at some point in the near future James and I will have to buy a new washer and dryer, but for the time being Zoey apparently loves this room!

Zoey's Room AKA the "pink room"

I have mentioned that James and I bought a house this year! We bought this house back in July, and the house is amazing! The only problem we had with the house was 2 paint colors. One room was HOT pink and the other was lavender purple. Needless to say we painted them! And Zoey has now claimed the "pink room" as hers.

The very first day that we started painting the pink room she claimed her territory. As you can see in the picture below she was saying goodbye to the pink room. The pink was a little too bright for everyones eyes and we were all glad to see it leave.

Saying her final goodbye to the really HOT pink room!

Now that this room is painted "saharan dessert" she LOVES it! If you can't find the cat she is usually cuddled up on her bed in the room sleeping. There is sooo much cat fur all over the comforter now, I will probably never get it out! But at least I know where to find her and she loves her bed :)

Zoey is not in this picture, but she is usually found curled up on the end of the bed by the window!

Spring Cleaning

I know most of you spent your spring break going to cool places, playing all the new video games or just sleeping in. I spent my spring break cleaning! And I LOVED it! I haven't actually like deep cleaned my house since February (probably really January??), I am a teacher! I am a very busy woman! It was wonderful! I moved things around, I put all the laundry in its final resting place, and I have also made a giant pile of things that need to be donated!

I would also like to bring the cat part in now...Zoey is oddly curious about all the cleaning supplies and loves to follow me while I clean. That is until the MONSTER (the vacuum comes out). She is terrified of the vacuum. Even if I just pull it out of the closet she will run. I don't even know where she runs to, she hides and comes out about 3 hours after the vacuum has been put away! Crazy cat!

Anyway, I enjoyed my spring break spent cleaning, and I hope you enjoyed yours as well!

Backyard Cat

July of 2016 James and I bought our very first house! It was a stressful and exciting time! We LOVE this house and it is perfect for us and Zoey. The best part about the house is Zoey gets to have a WHOLE backyard all to herself! She loves it! She runs around, tries to catch birds, and loves eating grass. (Which she usually throws up later...).

When we were in our Apartment Zoey was not allowed to go outside. We didn't have a fence, and most of the apartment complex was street where cars were. She so badly wanted to go outside though! And then we moved into our new house and Zoey finally can be the "outdoor" cat that she has always wanted to be!

Here is a picture of Zoey stalking her prey in our backyard!

It probably sounds crazy, but we pretty much did buy this house so Zoey could have a backyard to play in, and a fence to keep her protected! We sure do love our little cat :)