Look, Mom!

I put a picture up!  Ok, so it was a picture that was already loaded on my computer, and you've all probably seen it already, but since Mom was asking (read: pleading) for me to put pictures up, here you go!  Note:  I didn't take this picture.  Remember, we don't take them.

Also of note:  we caught mouse #2 last night.  Again on a glue trap, placed in the same spot mouse #1 had been trapped.  I guess the space between the oven and the fridge is a mouse thoroughfare in our kitchen.  By the way, I'm sold on the glue traps.  From now until the end of time, they're all we'll be buying.

Mouse Trap

We have been seeing evidence of mice in our house.  Lots of evidence.  Gross evidence, in places I don't want to think about having mice.  Like my kitchen sink.  And on the counter tops.  And on the couch.   SO GROSS!!!  Jonathan went out and bought traps yesterday.  Last night after the kids were in bed, we set them.  Eight of them.  4 were glue traps, 2 were the big "no see-um" kind, and two were the traditional snap traps, baited with peanut butter.  Shortly before 10:00, we heard it.  A strange scratching and popping sound, coming from the kitchen.  We came in to discover a very large mouse caught on one of the glue traps.  I was surprised at its boldness to come out while we were still up, with lights on.  Jonathan disposed of it (I don't know how, and don't care to know), and we went to bed wondering how many more we would have to dispose of in the morning.  We didn't catch any more.  SO,  did we just have one bold mouse wandering all over the house?  Or did the disappearance of one of their own prompt the others to go into hiding?  We'll keep the traps out for a few more nights and look for more evidence before we decide.

Jump on the Bandwagon!

I don't always follow the crowds.  Jonathan does even less.  Take his refusal to read Harry Potter, for example.  But when everyone else in the family abandoned Xanga for Blogger, I felt out of the loop.  And since I hadn't posted anything in MONTHS, I thought maybe a change would help inspire me to post again.  So here I am.

I'm not going to make any promises about faithfully blogging here.  And when we do post, it will likely be a short anecdote of what's going on in our family life.  And don't look for pictures here.  Most of you know we don't take them. 

Anecdote for today:  Tuesdays I go grocery shopping.  (We've been budgeting for the last couple of months.  For the first time in our 10 year marriage.  We were realizing that we didn't have a good idea of where our money was going.  And mint.com is a great resource (thanks Ben & Jodi, via Julie).)  I have been shopping at four (yes, you read that correctly, FOUR!!!) different stores for groceries, in order to save money.  I have a monthly grocery budget, which is the figure that counts on our online budget.  That amount, multiplied by 12 and divided by 52, gives me my weekly budget.  I have been staying under my weekly budget!  BUT.  (Let's talk about my big BUT.)  March has 5 Tuesdays.  :(    Now, I know it will all even out in the end, but it's so sad to see my budget line turn red because I'm over.