Have you ever experienced a situation where one (or maybe a few) little creatures have taken over your house, your life, your sanity? Well this has been me for the last week. One little mouse, then another, and now another.
It is interesting how what is seen as often quite cute, cuddle and furry in children’s books is now sending shivers up my spine when i think of it. You see, we have had a mouse in the house. Not one, not two, but three. My husband was very proud of himself this morning when he came back into the bedroom with a big grin on his face to say “I caught a mouse”.
He never actually told me his suspicions due to the test cheese left out the night before that had miraculously disappeared the next morning. “I didn’t want to worry you”, he said.
I have been a nut case. Going a little insane! A little anxious! And just a little fed up! How can one little mouse have such an effect?
When you see a little mouse run across the living room floor and then wait and hide behind the book shelf, believe me the fist thing that came into mind was sourcing a bb gun or something similar.
Have you ever gone a little crazy over something that you just didn’t expect? It is the unexpected that often tips us over the edge. That little extra worry, hassle, and in my case smell and clean up. Getting down on my hands and knees to clean the pantry that had been damaged through and was left with a awful awful stench, believe me is not fun!
It is that little extra item you have to put on the shopping list to source and purchase in order to catch the damn thing. And not just from the supermarket, the hardware store as they have the special special fast and furious traps.
It is just something you don’t want to be worrying about with a nearly 2-year-old and being 30 weeks pregnant.
But that is the thing about life, parenthood and everything in between. Sometimes it is the little things like a mouse that make us go a little crazy for us to then realise and say “If that is all we have to worry about we are doing pretty good!”
Still going a little in sane though.
What has tipped you “over the edge” lately?
Do rodents make you go a little crazy like they do for me?
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