January 3, 2012

WOW!  What a crazy day today has ended up being!

* 1st *
I’ve decided that I’m not going to do this EVERY day but at least 3 times a week.  I am not good with time management anymore since having kids so I figure I should be careful not to lose touch with my “real” world as well.  So this post is m last “every day” posting.   LOL  Trial and error…Trial and error…

* 2nd *
If you know me at all then this shouldn’t surprise you a bit.  Late this morning I rescued a, um,  cough cough little ground mole cough cough.
Yep, that’s me,  I love even the undesirables.  HA!   I happened to look out the window at the dog acting crazy in the snow and realized he was aggressively attacking one little spot in the snow.  Then I realized he had discovered a “new playmate” and was just trying to get it to come out and play!

I rushed out there, because I’ve seen what my ever-so-gentle-wouldn’t hurt-a-flea dog can do to a tiny little new play-mate.  (ie: Birds, mice, etc…).  I’m looking and looking and I see nothing.  Honestly I’m not even sure what I expected – it’s cold and we FINALLY have snow covering the ground and still falling.  I was about to give up and turned to head back inside when THERE IT WAS!  This adorable little soft furry gray things crossed a dug-up patch of grass right in front of me.  As quickly as I saw him he was burrowing through the top later of snow again.  I GRABBED him and rushed him inside without thinking and locked the dog out – HA!

Got the kids, they were all excited – we stuck him in a little container and all was good.  Well,  it was until I decided to try to something inside the container and the little bugger escaped IN my house!  I was able to retrieve him but apparently wasn’t wise enough to NOT open the lid a 2nd time and yep, he was gone!  Disappeared somewhere into my home.  OK,  so it was the kitchen he disappeared into – lovely but at least my kitchen got cleaned out in places I never even thought you could clean before!  Like deep underneath and inside the underbelly of the fridge.  I also discovered a deep back hole (so-to-speak) behind my cupboards.  Don’t ask how I discovered it but I did find some extremely old boxed, jar’d, and packaged food from way back to ’85!  Yea,  I was that desperate to find this little critter.  Partly because I now had a very worried 7yr old who was sure it would end up downstairs in her room, and more because I was not looking forward to telling the husband that I’d “rescued” a mole then gracefully let it escape deep into the house…
…I didn’t find it.  DRATS!   Made the call to the hubby.  Figured it might be better to tell him now and give him a few hours to take it all in before he got home and was bombarded with the news by 4 chatty children.

Fast forward to this evening.
I was downstairs – you know,  the place I promised my 7yr old it wouldn’t get to, and yep – there he was!  I picked up a pair of jeans laying on the floor outside my sons bedroom and there is this little dark gray soft looking things sitting right there!  I couldn’t believe it!  I threw the jeans back over it and cupped my hands around it trying to think of who I could call to come help me. You know,  because I’ve already learned the hard way that he’s a tricky little fella.   Wouldn’t you know – the only person near enough to me that I could call, was my 7yr old!  Fortunately she was amazing and ran upstairs and got back up.  Ethan, my 10yr old and also the one who totally surprised me earlier by standing on a chair when the mole got loose (yea,  i kid you not!  It still cracks me up) He grabbed my tough winter gloves and brought them to me and we captured the wee guy an not only locked him into a new little pet bin but also duct-tapped the tar out of the sides.  There would be no escaping this time!  HA!

Everyone but the 3yr old, who was now long asleep, got to enjoy his little antics for about a half hour or so before bed.  It was fun, it was entertaining.  I made a promise to the hubby that after school drop-offs in the morning and the 3yr old got to at least see it once, I would return our little guest to the wild.   Far, Far, Far, Far away from our home.

** Lastly **
On the non-critter side of things my Mommy came by today to visit and help out with some things (she came right after the darn mole escaped for the 2nd time!).  She also brought me some beautiful cut tulips!  Oh how I love Tulips – they are so simple and beautiful and well,  I just like ’em.

Tomorrow I shall come back and add the pics to this posting but at least I got it up.

Tonight I am going to go to bed.  School starts back up in the morning after the holidays and I’ve got to make sure I’m able to be functionable because if Mommy’s not happy – No One Is Happy!  So There!

I’ve got some sick family members out there right now – not my immediate family but a cousin and a child of another cousin.  It hasn’t been a good day for either of them.  If you could just keep them in prayer – that would be AWESOME!

Later!
<><  Jill