I know it's been a while, and my only excuse is laziness. Well, laziness, and a lack of material to blog about. I have been playing on facebook where telling stories and completing sentences isn't really needed. I've been scrap booking as well, and sometimes when the mood hits, I actually do something productive, like clean the house and comb my hair.
Over the last few months, we have had some excitement. Levi is set to graduate on May 1st this year, and Anna is set to start a local preschool this fall. We are getting the garden ready for planting, and as of last weekend I have 4 rows of peas in the ground. We planted a cherry tree last night and are so excited to someday harvest fresh cherries from our own tree.
I am in the process of reading more Indiana Jones books. These are super fun and addicting. There are several authors of these books, including Rob Macgregor, Max McCoy (my favorite), and Martin Caidin. If you're looking for a super fun adventure, I highly recommend reading these books. There are 12+ out there.
We had a bit of excitement here a few weeks ago. Apparently someone (it might have been me, but that's not terribly important) left the door between the garage and the mud room open for an extended period of time (like a whole hour). We had an unpleasant creature enter our house and move into our kitchen. It chose to live under the kitchen sink. I know what you're thinking. A skunk, raccoon, mountain lion or such. Well, you're close. It was a mouse! We set up sticky traps and food traps all over the place. After 2 weeks, the mouse was still there and smart enough to avoid every trap. We discovered that it was living on peroline cookies that were in my pantry, so it must have been on a major sugar high the entire time it was in my house. No wonder if left plain old boring peanut butter and cheese traps alone. After weeks of having this unwanted visitor, I finally decided to abandon the sit and wait tactic and declared war (truth be told, I grew tired of all the involuntary piercing screams that would escape from my mouth every time I made contact with the creature.... which happened too often). One evening I set up a few sneaky traps to catch the mouse when he/she wasn't paying attention and would accidentally run directly into the sticky trap. It was difficult, as I had to keep Atticus from getting caught in those traps, but it worked! I caught the mouse in only 10 hours. Of course, when using the sticky traps, the box doesn't remind you that the mouse is still alive and is squirming and screaming for every kid in the house to hear and come running for a quick mouse rescue. It was difficult to teach Anna that a mouse is bad and shouldn't be touched, even if it's squealing and squirming to get free. The most difficult thing I've had to do this month is "take care" of a trapped mouse. I bawled and shook the whole time. It was awful! It did receive a quick death, traumatic as it was for me to do. I came to realize that Atticus needs to learn to pull his own weight (and he has a whole 17 pounds of weight to pull). We now have the house back to ourselves and life is grand. There was a major clean-up job for me to take care of in the kitchen, but the happy news is that we are once again mouse free. :) I'm embarrassed that Anna still talks about "that mouse in our house" in front of other people. Ah, children are delightful.
