That's how my assistant soccer coach once described a game we were playing and that's about how I feel my ideas have been lately. For those of you who knew about the mouse, the saga continued. After seeing our very bold little mouse George put out some poison. Now up until this point we had been seeing bird seeds in random places but not droppings or damage. Apparantly the mouse very much enjoyed the poison and thus invited every mouse he knew to come party at our house. One morning I came down and found they had chewed through our peanut container. That day I meet George at the door for lunch and said "bring home a cat." He laughed. That evening when he got home I said "where's the cat?". He laughed. Several days later we had caught two mice in snap traps. Sunday night George came home and said "Guess what I brought home" I laughed. That's right, we now have a cat, sort of. His owner can't currently take care of him so left him at the church and we are watching him while the man tries to get things together. It might be a permanent situation. I've always heard "Be careful what you wish for". I think I understand now. After a week with the cat our basement smells funny sometimes (from the litter box) and just the other day I was on the computer when what should run by, you guessed it, a mouse. The cat just watched it. My idea to get a cat was a total flop, and now we have a cat!
At this point you are probably wondering where the moment of brilliance comes in. As far as the cat goes there is no moment of brilliance, however, I had a parenting flash of brilliance this week. I was trying to get something done (I don't even remember what it was now and I'm sure whatever it was needs to be done again), the chidren, Christin and Aidan, where being pests. They were alternating fighting and bugging me to play with them (which I had already spent much time doing). So in what can only be described as a stroke of genius I said "I have a game!" in my most annoying, high pitched, isn't this going to be fun mommy voice. I continued, "You each get some paper towels. I'll spray the windows and then you wipe them down, get off as many fingerprints as you can!" They fell for it hook, line, and sinker. I did whatever it was I was trying to do and they scrubbed my windows for about 20 minutes. Brilliance! Now I realize that they didn't do near the job I would have done but lets be honest, I was never going to get to it!
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