As our frozen pipes thaw and our brains lick their wounds from the last couple of posts, I’d like to share a lighthearted story about a prank Erik played during my channeling session with Jamie yesterday. Five minutes before the session, I set myself up in the study and rigged up the digital voice recorder. Since our cats are very nosy and love following me around everywhere, I closed the study doors. After 20 to 30 minutes, I could see Lukas’s beautiful black cat, Ringo, sitting quietly at the door, gazing at me through one of the glass panes. As a mother of five children, I’m very used to such distractions. In fact, when my kids were small, I could count on their company the minute I stepped into a bubble bath, their tiny fingers wriggling beneath the locked bathroom door. Same with the cats. I can ask Erik questions after question, listen to his replies, and still enjoy watching the cats paw at a door stop. Multitasking. It’s a girl thing. My neighbor swears by it too, saying she can have sex, balance her checkbook and spank the kids all at the same time.

Anyhoooo, I digress. It’s an ADHD thing. (My kids bought me a t-shirt that says, “I don’t know why people say I have ADD, I mean, after all–OH LOOK, A CHICKEN!)  Any time I get distracted in a converation, changing topics on a dime, Rune and the kids say, “Mom saw a chicken again!”

Anyhoooo, here’s the real story. I watched Ringo pawing at one of Annika’s hair ties underneath the door when suddenly he plopped over on his side. Then, mid-sentence, Jamie started laughing hysterically on the other end of the phone.

“What, Jamie? What’s so funny?” I asked.

“Erik said he just pushed the cat over,”  she replied.

All three of us had a good laugh, and Erik informed us that Ringo loves it when he does that. Then, plop, over Ringo goes. Jamie laughs, tells me Erik did it again, and we go about the business of finishing the rest of the channeling session, leaving poor Ringo to find another playmate.

Pretty cool, huh? Hmm, now I’m hungry for chicken.