Bedmaking.

There are few things that can bring together a house full of animals like stripping the sheets off a bed and putting on clean ones.

The cats like to get buttoned inside the duvet cover and they all like to race around in circles on the empty bed, but the most exciting thing is crawling under the fitted sheet and getting made into the bed.

Night Terrors

My husband Z has night terrors. This was a great source of excitement early in our marriage.

The first time he woke up screaming about spiders, I turned on the lights and looked for spiders.

By the third time it was normal.

He usually doesn't remember anything the next day.

It's not always spiders, though. Sometimes it's a mysterious medical malady or some new and different creepy crawly. Not long ago he tried to convince me he was dead.

While I failed to convince him that he was indeed still alive, I did talk him into going back to sleep.