Chasing away Chubby

Ahhhhh!  I am exhausted.

Today did not go exactly as I had planned.  Do they ever?  I didn’t get to work out.  I actually started and just then DS4 decided to help himself to a drink of water.  Not a problem.  I have one of those water dispensers in the fridge that holds 3 gallons of water.   I just filled it up this morning.  He decides for some reason (who knows what runs through a 4 year old mind) to pull it out some, I guess to get his cup under the spout easier, and something went wrong and the whole thing fell out of the fridge and spilled massive amounts of water all over the kitchen.  I was upset and yelled at him.  It took me DS10 and my neice about 15 minutes to clean it up, and then I had to go find DS4 and apoligize for yelling.  I know he didn’t mean to do it.  He was sitting by himself in the bathroom.  I picked him up and hugged him and told him how sorry I was for yelling.  He said “Next time Mommy, don’t put too much water in it.”  I smiled.  I think what happend is someone pushed it back from the edge ot the shelf where it was suppose to be and he is used to it being nearly empty and so he pulled on it and the new weight surprised him and it slid out and dumped all in the floor. It soaked his bottom half too so I had to change him.  I really felt like a dog for yelling at him.  But it always seems like something is happening to get in the way of what I need to get done.  It is frustrating. 

I am not a perfect mother, but at least i do apoligize when I screw up. 

So after all that it was 6 o’clock and time to cook dinner, give them baths and then work on my homework.  The class that I am flunking is super hard this week.  But the one I had to repeat is super easy the second time around.  I might actually get an A!  Funny how things are so much easier the second time around! Everything is due tomorrow by midnight so it is gonna be a bitch getting it all done! I have a ton of stuff to do tomorrow for work, so that is gonna be interesting as well.  I am gonna take my energy pills in the morning.  They help my focus.

The mouse that I have been fighting is gone.  After I blogged about him, he disappeared for several weeks.  I actually wondered if my cat may have got him.  But no, last week he shows his cute little head.  This time he stays in the boys room.  My dog’s food bowls are in the boys bathroom and I think that he was living off her food and what he managed to lick off the mouse traps.  Yep, he would eat the food off the traps.  He was a cocky little bastard too.  He would actually come out while we were in the room.  Yesterday i was sitting in there, watching TV with DS16 and he came out of the closet, ran under the TV and  would run out into the room, but if I moved he would dart back under something.  He would poke his cute little head out and look at me, twitching his little whiskers.  As much as i hate those nasty, little critters I had to admit his was cute and brave.  He had a personality.  He was one of those cute little field mouse’s too.  Not the ugly white ones, but brown with black eyes.  Just cute.  However I can’t have him spreading his disease through out my house so I went and found my most sensitive mouse trap.  It was set in the kitchen and evidently he never made it that far.  So I coated it with peanut butter and set it near the one that he kept licking the peanut butter off of.  We went to BF’s last night and when I returned this morning we found him in the trap. I was surprised I was a little sad.  I hate killing things (except snakes!  I have no problem killing those), but this little mouse had been a brilliant adversary, a smart player of the game.   I was a tad sorry to know he would not live on to wreak havoc elsewhere.  Oh well, his death was quick and virtually painless.  Now he can lick the peanut butter off the traps in heaven.  LOL!

Well that is the wrap up of my day.  Food was okay today.  Still have some work to do on eating smart, but it is getting better!  I am off to bed!

Posted on February 25th, 2008 by lodyangel
Filed under: General