It's a typical Sunday morning and I'm up at dawn. I jerked awake quickly, to the sound of the dog whining and crashing around in his crate. I quickly went to check on him, to discover him asleep, having a nightmare/doggymare of some sort. He was twitching and making puppy noises, so I woke him up. He seemed disoriented, but happy to see me, so I took him out for a morning potty walk around the yard. When we came back in, he looked in his food bowl, saw it was still empty, and voluntarily put himself back to bed.

I knew I was up, because I'm one of those people that can't fall back to sleep, no matter how tired I am. I tip-toed around the house, turned on the computer, combed my hair, checked my email, signed on to Facebook, then I heard a splash. The smallest striped kitten had fallen in the water bowl again. She is the first clumsy cat I've ever met. I wiped her wet paws and was heading back to the computer when I heard hubby rustling around. I decided to cuddle up with him a few minutes, trying to encourage him to get out of bed. He started laughing and said “I had the craziest dream...we were all in the car, driving somewhere on vacation. We came to a town that reminded me of one of those ghost towns you see in old Westerns, except it had a strip mall and all these people were going into one of the old abandoned buildings. We followed them and it ended up that it was a McDonald's. You and Lindsay were on your cell phones, trying to look at E-bay but you were arguing about something, because the reception was so bad. It was making you mad and you began making a scene because there was some special bra you were trying to win and the auction was ending soon. People were looking at me and I just shook my head, because I didn't know what was going on.”

He laughed again, then was silent. My husband is a man of long silences. It drives me nuts. I nudged him and asked what happened next and he was quiet for about 45 seconds, then said, "I woke up."

Ed always has crazy dreams. Sometimes he won't tell me what they're about. But this one is one of the crazier ones he's had recently. For the record, I do like to buy from Ebay, but I would NEVER order lingerie off that site. And I wouldn't make a scene in a restaurant about it, no matter how mad I was. I'm not prone to scenes--that's not my style. Finally, we haven't all been on a family vacation in about seven years. I can't imagine we'd go to an old west ghost town for a vacation. I think that's wishful thinking on his part.