Dream - talking cats and the feast of bones

strange dream - I kept waking up and going back into it.

I was a refugee, staying at a cottage with a woman I didn't know. A magical cottage. When she was showing me my room, there was a man there who wanted me to step on him, but I knew that was a bad idea. She didn't seem to notice him. He wore a sweater that matched the carpet/ rug in the room and when he lay down on the floor, he would merge with it so that it was only by the subtle differences in the pattern - especially on the edges - that I knew where he was to avoid him. At one point, I had to do laundry. I left everyone else in the lower floor (basement was sort of a entertainment room, my children were down there and our hostess) and took the clothes upstairs to the living rooms. It was dark and the light switches weren't working. I knew there was something dangerous in the dark and didn't want to go further.

Woke up.

Dreamt of my offspring Senna, telling her that I love her but I was missing my son Sean. That I needed to mourn his loss and get to know her better.

Woke up.

Back in the cottage, except now it was bigger and I was more of an observer than a participant. The hostess had several children - three or four - and was guesting four refugee children who were tightly bounded but I'm not sure that they were actually siblings. One ... Livia ... was smaller than the rest and rather awkward; a natural victim. The mean girl among the resident children picked on her; so that the other refugee children had to look out for her. Then Livia disappeared and her fellows went looking for her.

She had followed some instructions from Victoria - to get somewhere innocuous in the house - and ended up in another dimension being chased by giant cats.

Her friends joined forces with the the other resident children (who did not approve of Victoria's ways) to find the way into the alternate dimension. They started searching for Livia. One of them was hiding and overheard a giant cat inform Victoria that they had found the prey she'd sent for the "Feast of Bones" in the small room {elevator?} but that it got away from them.

I really wanted to find out what happened. Livia seemed to be doing well against the cats. Victoria seemed to be well on her way to evil witchery. What would the combined children do to resolve the situation? What would the hostess do when she found out? Was she secretly teaching Victoria the dark arts? {There was the implication in all the dreams that the hostess was magically inclined - but there was nothing really overt.}

Peppermint water

My husband suffers from debilitating heartburn and esophageal spasms. He recently learned that the Mayo Clinic suggests peppermints to help, but the ones we keep in the house are not sufficient - either because the mint flavouring is not pure peppermint or it's not a sufficient dose. So I got down the peppermint flavouring from the cupboard, put less than 1/8 tsp in a full water bottle and gave him that. (closer to half the 1/8 tsp)

He's been drinking it regularly for the past two months and it seems to work. It's not a perfect cure by any means, sometimes he still gets heartburn, but it is helping and that's a relief. He's been able to cut back on the pepcid to two or three times a week instead of every night.