Ash Thoreau

Well, my husband saw a mouse. We haven’t had mice in our house for years. And never since we’ve had a kid.

The last time we had mice was when I was keeping chickens in the backyard. As soon as we got rid of the chickens (they went to my mom’s farm), the mice went away. Now, the house has never been cleaner and yet there is a mouse.

So, this entire morning I have spent cleaning. I cleaned out my bird’s room. I vacuumed all the upstairs rooms in the house (usually I rotate which room I vacuum throughout the week so the house doesn’t get too hot). I am 2/3 through the kitchen. I had to stop to give my kid a bath.

Trusty Amazon will be bringing both live and kill traps. The kill traps will only be put out at night while my kid is asleep, and only in certain areas. And before anyone comes after me for using kill traps, all I can say is you are fortunate to never have had to live with a mouse infestation. They get everywhere. It’s disgusting and you feel like you’re a prisoner in your own home. Usually I am against the kill traps myself but now that we have a kid, I’m not playin.

I told my husband that it’s enough to make me want to move back to Arizona. We never had this issue growing up out there. Although to be fair to Colorado, AZ has a pretty hefty roof rat problem but only in certain areas…. And ya know…. Scorpions. So I guess I would be trading one evil for another.

Anyways, once my kid is done pretending she’s a frog, it’s back to cleaning and then work. Fun times.