My mom would let my brother and I open one gift on Christmas Eve morning. Then we got to open the others under the tree that night. So, I picked out one box and she was adament that I could NOT open that one. It threw her off that of all the ones I picked that was it. LOL It turned out, that had to be the last present I opened. Anyway, as I opened others, I got some cat barettes, other cat things, and a Caterpillar bulldozer toy which I thought must have been meant for Ricky instead. The last present was a box of Tender Vittles Cat Food. Then my dad told my brother to go outside and bring in my present which, as you could guess, was a real cat. He was orange and white and we called him Tiger (I know, generic name, but I was just a kid!) Everyone had fun with that because they were all in on keeping it a secret. I remember everyone laughing a lot that year and all of us playing with the cat.

Becky