My friends the mice are back, despite our having closed up everything that could possibly be a hole, put cloves of garlic all over the basement (supposedly that works), and had preventative traps up for weeks. For some reason, they've discovered our bedroom. Why? I don't know. I have a deathly fear of crumbs in our bedroom attracting mice, so we have never eaten in there.
Anyway, last night (after Isaac's disappointing day; see previous post) I was woken up by sounds near the wastebasket next to Isaac's side of the bed. Lovely. The night before I had been woken up to sounds under our bedroom dresser and stuck it out, getting very ittle sleep. So I decided to try to sleep with Ellie until a better solution had been found. I thought that would be kindest to Isaac and allow him the most sleep (a nervous, sharp-eared wife is no fun to sleep with).
I joined Ellie. No sooner had I been in her very uncomfortable bed for five minutes than I heard a mouse in her room too. Not okay. Her room is way darker than ours, and there was no way I was going to cross her dark floor unable to see where Mr. Mouse was. So I called for Isaac, knowing I wouldn't wake Ellie up. Unfortunately, I didn't wake Isaac up either, even though I was across the hall yelling, "Isaac! I need you! Come get me!" (Not confidence-inspiring, when I'm already nervous). So I had to turn on Ellie's bedside lamp and run for it (I don't know why I didn't think of that first - give me a break at 2am).
We ended up with me back in our bed. Isaac tucked the covers in all the way around the bed at my behest, and I put in very uncomfortable earplugs so that I could pretend there were no mice. At one point during the night, Isaac must have heard loud enough noises that made him sit up and look around again. At another point, Ellie semi-woke up screaming that she'd had an accident (she hadn't; her underwear were dry, but after 10 minutes of crying Isaac changed her anyway).
This morning Isaac told me that he felt like he'd been up every hour. He had. And I'm sure he'd want me to point out that my "disappointing night" was unfortunately his, as well.
1 comment:
allison...use cheap peanut butter that has sugar in it. victory mouse traps...get the good ones and only put the peanut butter in the little metal loop..don't give them to much to eat. Yes, you may here it snap and flop around...but then you know that you got the buggers. Also walk around the house and look for little mouse holes coming out of the snow or little mouse trails...look for where they might go...when you have a new snow. if you have any questions...you know my email. Remember about what I told you about poison.
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