the houdini mouse story...

i promise, once i get unpacked, i'll get back to crafting...for now, this is the "ramblings of life in general" part of my blog!!!

so this mouse. the first night at my new house, my cute mom stayed over. we were talking on the couch and i thought i saw something run across the kitchen. it was dark, about midnight and i didn't know if i saw something or not. so i kept watching and saw it again. i told her that i thought i saw a mouse! of course, she wasn't happy since she was sleeping on the couch next to the kitchen!! so we continue talking and i see it again. this time it stops right by where the dishwasher comes out of the counter. it stops and stares. yep. a mouse all right. and it sits there and stares at me. it was like we are in a stare down! so i tell my mom to get up slow and turn on the kitchen light. she turns on the wrong one, but i can clearly see him now. plain as day giving me the stink eye. probably wondering why we invaded his space. and he just stays and stares. she turns on the right light in the kitchen and he stares for a few seconds then scurries under the dishwasher. well, by now she's freaked!! i had seen a bunch of mouse poop, so i got a bunch of glue traps early in the day. so we set some out all over the kitchen.

well, we are exhausted, so we go to bed. she's all tucked in on the couch and i go up to the bedroom. well, about a half hour later, i see a light turn on and my mom is whispering my name. i get up and meet her on the stairs. she said there is this mouse dancing across the kitchen. i thought she meant that he was running back and forth. oh no! he was stuck to the glue board and was frantically trying to get off. in the process, dragging it across the floor! well i didn't want to wake up kerry, so i was brave and found a plastic bag to put him in. i dropped the bag (on accident) in the garage, and thought he was dead. i kind of squished the glue board onto him so i knew he would be stuck. he wasn't moving. we left the bag there and went to bed.

the next day, i was telling my brother the story. i pointed to the bag sitting there and said that was the mouse. he went over and picked it up to look at the mouse (why must boys look at all things weird?). and do you now what? yep, he was gone!!! and there was a whole in the plastic bag where he had nibbled his way to freedom!!! i have no idea how got off the glue board!!!

houdini mouse. we live in his house!!!