Our Christmas Holiday

By Mewsette

We have had big family gatherings on holidays in the past, even during my life, cause my mom has lots of human kids and grandkids. But Mom isn't doing any traveling these days, and they all live far away. They call on the phone instead. So the way we celebrate holidays is different now. I like quieter holidays at home myself, and I'm glad Mom doesn't leave us.

The "winter holidays" means Christmas at my house! I always did love Christmas, especially after we moved out of Texas and had snow. I have seen some lovely white Christmases in our mountains and last year it was very snowy here, too.

The thing I love the most about our Christmas is the special Christmas tree we have every year, all decorated with kitty ornaments. It's been that way as long as I can remember. My mom will put the tree together - or she calls it a tree, anyway. Any sensible cat can tell it doesn't smell right and isn't real. But she hangs all our Christmas kitties and kitty angels on it, and every year she makes some new ones. It is really beautiful when it is done, and it has a lighted kitty angel in a white lace dress on top.

Last year, for the first time, we had so many kitty angels that Mom made the tree all angels. Some of them are even made from pictures of me, my mother BamBam and my sisfur Phelicity in our angel wings. There are special round ornaments that were made to look like us too, with the right color eyes for each of us. Mine is gold with a pink nose and green eyes! There are lots of lights on the tree, so it sparkles so pretty!

Underneath the tree, there will be presents for us girls, and they always smell like catnip! They will be wrapped in tissue paper, cause Phelicity has been unwrapping hers herself since she was a kitten. That's cause she's a little strange - she thinks tissue paper is a snack. We love to lie under the tree among our presents. Mom plays pretty Christmas music softly, and we like that, too. And we always get a special treat to eat on Christmas Day.

So our Christmas season isn't as busy and hectic any more, as many are, but it is purrfect for cats.