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.