Carolyn Holm

Dear Mom,
This last week was the WORST WEEK EVER!!!!!! We were SO upset.
Love, Mia

Dear Mia,
YOU were upset! Think about Poppy! Both of her beds getting filled with puddles of pee. Each time I cleaned it up, it happened again. I was at my wits end.
Carolyn

Dear Mom,
We couldn’t figure out why you didn’t get it right away.
Love, Mia

Dear Mia,
You could have written me a note to tell me what was going on. I thought you had all lost your marbles.
Carolyn

Dear Mom,
We were too upset for notes. We felt like our lives had turned upside-down. So we used performance art to communicate. It’s a feline tradition.
Love, Mia

Dear Mia,
Poor Poppy. I bundled her off to the vet because I thought she was acting out due to a UTI or diabetes or something. But she was all clear. The vet said peeing in the dog’s bed sounded more like something a cat would do. I assured him you two NEVER did anything like that. Ha.
Carolyn

Dear Mom,
Well of course we don’t! Normally. But we were freaking out.
Love, Mia

Dear Mia,
Then I went to clean out the litter boxes and they were pristine. Totally untouched. I realized that I had two cats gone wacko out of control.
Carolyn

Dear Mom,
We were not wacko. We were communicating an urgent message with our performance art. But you failed to watch.
Love, Mia

Dear Mia,
I wish you had been more explicit. Thank god I finally found that the cat door had locked closed so you couldn’t get to your litter boxes in the furnace room.
Carolyn

Dear Mom,
We were distraught!!!!!. We had to go somewhere, and the first thing we thought of was to pick on Poppy. Actually that was my idea. Puffin would have gone all over the place. It was a good idea, right? Very dramatic. I knew you couldn’t miss it. Also it was kind of funny, doing that to Poppy.
Love, Mia 

Dear Mia,
Funny! Think of how that poor dog felt! I had to trash both her beds. That wasn’t very nice of you. She is such an innocent!
Carolyn

Dear Mom,
Well, everything is fine now that you fixed our cat door. Looking back on it, it is still kind of funny.
Love, Mia

Dear Mia,
You cats are out of control.
Carolyn

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