A good night's sleep???

[rkidsrcats]

There's a whole user's manual for all the "cat rituals" we have to go through before we can get to sleep.
First, William TELLS me it is time to go to bed. He's the snuggle all night cat, so he wants to make sure he gets his 8-10 hrs.
Tiger requires "blue water dish ritual" before retiring. You have to clena out the blue water dish, fill it with cold (not warm) cold water and he will meow and drink while you are supposed to pet him. (3-5 minutes for this).
Like clockwork, if William comes into the bedroom for the evening, Norbert gets up from the bed and is officially "on duty" as the night manager. He's up all night racing up and down the hallway and playing with Percy, Tiger, Scooter and Pippin until around 2AM.
Meantime, William tucks me in and he is on the bed for the night- no matter how much I move, he just re-adjusts and snuggles in. An assortment of bed visitors may show up - usually Tiger, sometimes Scooter & Percy but never Norbert. I get locked into place pretty solid with 2-4 cats in a king bed.

Hubby gets up early - 4:30AM - and does not require an alarm clock. Pippin, without fail, comes in and does the "wake up" dance on his head until he gets up. The dance also includes a furry butt in the face -that usually does the trick. ( On weekends, I get the dance treatment - guess he knows it's not a work day for dad.)
Rarely do I sleep through the night without needing to re-adjust the furry bed covers, but life with sleep would be life without cats, so I just take a lot of naps when I have a chance.

[elizabethann]

A good nights sleep? What is that? I don't believe I know what you're talking about. Why just this morning, Cosmo kept hitting the cord to my bedroom lamp because he knows it will hit the heat register and make a lot of noise so that I can get up 2 hours before my normal wake-up time, just to feed him!

I'm finally facing the facts.............I'm just a servant.