mouse. trap.

gross. disturbing. violating. did I say GROSS!?!? we have a mouse..potentially more than one..and it is located in our pantry!! we have heard it for a couple of days (clue 1) but assumed it was in the wall somewhere, and in living in a townhome i was hoping that it was closer to the neighbors house than to ours. But OHHH NO! it innocently-as i like to say -"desserted" on my reeses cup from my candy dish on my kitchen counter top (clue 2). i noticed that last night as i was preparing supper for my sweet husband. and then..i heard it! lucky for me the pantry door was closed. BUT i could clearly hear the rustling of some type of bag (clue 3) and instantly knew that whatever it was (mouse, squirrel, monster) was no longer in the wall as i had hoped but was feasting on MY snacks yet again. i immediately called Tripp and apologized that his dinner would have to wait until he rushed home to kill the beast inside my pantry because i was not gonna step foot in the kitchen knowing that thing was in the pantry. when he said that it would be 20 more minutes..i quickly called MamaJoy. i knew she would have a resolution to this. i gave her the play by play as i stood on top (mind you i did not let my feet touch the floor from the time i heard the beast and ran onto the couch) of the oversized chair closest to the kitchen. thats when i saw it (final conclusion)..it flattened itself under the pantry door and quickly slid under the stove. I SCREAMED and jumped from the chair back onto the couch. MamaJoy laughed-and gave me some advice and then thankfully my prince charming came to the rescue and entered the kitchen completely calm and ready to catch the predator.
At this point I am gagging and on the verge of a panic attack. Tripp opened the pantry door and another (could be the same one??? i am hoping there is only ONE!) mouse nose dived from the third shelf of the pantry on to the floor into a corner and i am sure was praying for dear life that tripp would not see him. tripp gathered a couple of boxes and a dish towel and proceeded to chase the mouse out of the pantry-they circled around the kitchen-and then tripp slammed the box over what we hoped was the mouse. now i would have paid to see what i looked like while this was all going down. what i remember from it was-screaming, jumping on the chair, laughing, and screaming some more-all while waving my arms in the air (as if to cause some kind of diversion..i have no idea?).
now the main question was..is the mouse under the box..or did it go back under the stove??? after shaking the box back and forth and deciding the mouse was not in the box, tripp lifted the box to find that the mouse had truly escaped and was now back in its hiding place under/behind the stove. i was beyond overwhelmed. so we went to wal-mart....bought mouse traps..set them out..and prayed that they would be gone by the morning. they were not. the traps with their yummy glob of peanut butter were untouched. and i woke up this morning at 6:30 and could hear them in my walls again. complete devastation.
now, i am not a girlie girl...and have roughed it with the best of them while camping, trekking for 4 days with no shower while climbing machu picchu, and staying in hostels all over central and south america...but this is MY home-the home i try really hard to take care of-and these are MY snacks-and the thought of a mouse jumping out of my pantry and running across my kitchen floor and desserting on my reeses cups on my countertops is so disturbing that it brings chills down my body. i want them gone and i want them gone NOW. so if you are reading this little mouse (with or without friends) you have until the morning to leave. AND if you dare touch my mt. dew I will squish myself into your little hiding place behind my stove and take care of you myself!
and this my friends is just a glimpse into the life of mr. and mrs. smith :)