Our House

We are bored! I know we shouldn't be, but we are. Well we are busy with household stuff, but ready for some structure. We are going to start back to school Monday. I have all of our books, the school room is clean and organized and I am ready. I don't know if the kids are ready, but I have have been counting down the days to them this week, so they know its almost time. We will take a vacation mid September so it will be good to start early. These are some pictures of the day. We cut the grass this morning, I mowed while Dave did the weed eating. I took these pictures for those of you who have never seen our yard. It is a monster to cut. We worked together and finished in about an hour and half. The kids cleaned up the garage while we did yard work. The bottom pictures are of our neatly organized school room....... And NO we have not caught the mouse.

Late Wednesday Night

OK. It is 1:05 a.m. and I am fretting! I got back from the grocery store around 11:00. I cleaned out the van and unloaded the groceries. I got all the groceries put away and sat down in the living room to fold a load of clothes. It was about midnight. I was watching Law and Order, folding clothes and enjoying my time alone, when something caught my eye. I looked over in front of the window and saw a MOUSE!!!!!! I saw a MOUSE!!!!! I ran downstairs and woke Dave up to tell him I saw a MOUSE!!! He mumbled some words and gave me the "I wish I could do something look" before he went back to sleep. I went to look and see if we had any mouse traps.....of course we did not. So I sat in the living room staring at the TV.....the mouse was behind the TV. He did peak out once. I got a large rubbermaid tub and was prepared to trap him, but he didn't show his face again. So now I am sitting here wondering what the mouse is doing. Dave will take care of it in the morning......but its like 5 hours until he gets up. He's got a cold so I really hated to bother him......but I did see a MOUSE. So if I can, I am going to try go sleep .....The kids are all three sleeping on the top bunk in Erin's bed. That is some comfort to know that they are up high!!! I guess I can be glad we don't have snakes. I may not sleep at all tonight! I'll update after we catch/kill the MOUSE or MICE.