Building tents out of blankets is something that all young children enjoy. When I was growing up my brother and I would spend hours draping blankets across the furniture and coming up with elaborate tent designs. We would then play in them and often times sleep in them later that night. It was always a lot of fun…until it came time to tear them down and clean them up!

As an adult I’ve enjoyed building a lot of blanket tents for our daughter who is now 35+ years old and our two grandchildren age 6 and 12 years of age. Those tent making skills that I learned as a child came in handy when I started having children and grandchildren. They call me the EXPERT designer! LOL

Blanket Tents aren’t just for kids. They’re for cats too! Our 1 1/2 year old kitty, Romeo loves for us to make him little tents and caves all over the house. We rotate the rooms and where we make them. To keep things neat and tidy, we use small throw blankets instead of full-size blankets. He loves to go into them and curl up for a nap. He will sleep for hours in a newly made blanket tent!

The photo shows our handsome guy trying to catch a nap in one that I made on his Daddy’s lounge chair. It’s his favorite chair too!

Our cat Romeo loves to lay and sit in front of windows and open doors. He will stare outside for hours at a time looking for birds! Yup, he’s a bonafide birdwatcher and birdwatching is his favorite hobby!

Romeo doesn’t care if its day or night, hot or cold outside…he just wants to sit there and look at the birds! When several of them arrive he will start talking to them “cackling” is what it’s called. His ears and tail start going crazy while he’s cackling at his friends. I have no idea what he’s saying to them but it’s often an intense conversation.

He has plenty of toys all around the house and yes, he does play with them from time to time. If you asked him what his favorite thing to do was (besides eat and sleep) he would tell you birdwatching! Meow, Meow, Meow.

We had a mild day last week so I opened up the front door and he was in his glory. Fresh air, a little bit of a breeze and about 15 birds sitting in our front yard looking for dinner. He sat there in that exact spot for 75 minutes until the birds moved on. You would of thought Christmas had arrived early.