Weekly Thumbs

Over at Bubs Under Budget tattoomummy is summarising her week by thumbs up/down. I'm thinking this a great idea and am going to play along too.

Starting with the not so nice

THUMBS DOWN

• One word, mice
• Cleaning so said mice don't have anywhere to hide
• Miserable weather so only have 1/3 the line space to dry washing
• Folding the mountain to cleaning washing that I've used the dryer to dry
• Having a wonderful headache on and off for the last 3 days

THUMBS UP

• Having a cleaner house
• Having an awesome time at the play centre, thinking I might make it a regular thing.
• The whole family over the cold we had at my parents
• Getting the cobweb brush I've been meaning to get for the last 3 years. I can finally do them properly
• Getting 2 bags of boys clothes just in time for Ethan to move to the next size.
• The fact that the 2 kids dancing and bopping still cracks me up and think 'Aaww!' no matter how many times they have done it already

I haate meeces to pieces!

A little while ago I read a post about mice and thought I'm SO glad that's not me with the mouse plague. Well guess who got karma'ed.

For the last few months weeks I've been ignoring the scrabbling in the walls and believing it'll stop sometime soon. That was until last week when Jason decided he'd just happen to mention in passing that he'd SEEN a mouse whizz by one night.

FOR SERIOUS!!

I like to think I'm a big brave tough girl, but honestly, I revert to girliness and jump up on chairs when I see a little furry body scurry by.* Unfortunately I have now fareeaked Emily out with one of my involuntary displays. Ooops! I am working on making it all a bit less scary though.

After several other sightings in the last couple of days we packed the family in the car and went to Bunnings to get us some traps.
We decided on the rotary type thing that teases the rodent. You stick your peanut butter in the middle via a little trapdoor and set it to "SET". The little blighters darlings sniff the aroma and come scurrying into the little round house and SNAP, the sucker is caught. Doesn't even get to taste it! SUCKED IN MOUSE!!

We had a victory very shortly after setting one (in fact it was mere minutes after I told hubby he needs to put the thing flat on the ground not sideways, fool)

I've been so happy about the whole mouse problem until about half an hour ago. While lying in the spare bed in Ethan's room feeding said child I saw a furry body scurry along the top of his drawers and into his disused (story for another day) cot. EEEEWWWWW!! I now have visions of mice running all over me and the boy while we sleep.

NOT HAPPY AGAIN!

I'm so of to Bunnings to get me some more of those traps!

PS As I type this I can hear them running behing the couch, GGGRRR

*Funny story, no seriously it happened! While I was living with Mum (studying/working away from home) we had a little furry visitor that may or may not have been brought in by the cat to play with. No word of a lie, we both jump up on to the nearest chairs simultaneously. We wet ourselves, in between hyperventilating and heart palpitations.

Still here

Thought I'd just let you know I'm still here. I was out of the webiverse for a whole 10 days, it almost killed me! Shall update you all on our little break to my parents place soon.