The BAD: The day the guy came to work on our storage room, we had our back door wide open and mostly unwatched all day from 12:00 p.m. noon to 1:30 a.m. It was on Wednesday, the day of the big and cold storm. Apparently some mice were trying to find cover and found our house. The next morning I almost had a heart attack when we saw one running across the mudroom floor. We finally captured it with our BBQ prongs and put it in a shoe box (the prongs have been scrubbed and sanitized since then). The boys decided to give the captured mouse to our neighbors. So, they ran over and left it on their front porch, then doorbell ditched them. It was pretty funny, they scared Mandy (my friend) big time, and now we better watch out for revenge I'm afraid. We know their is still at least one more mouse in our house, and I won't sleep well until its gone! Given that we haven't seen hide nor hair of a mouse in our home for five years, we are confident (and hopeful) it is directly attributed to leaving the door wide open to receive them.
The UGLY: Paul has SWINE FLU (it's really ugly)! And yes, this too happened on Wednesday. Paul came home early on Wednesday saying he didn't feel very good. He took some Motrin and a nap and woke up saying he felt well enough to still go to the Court of Honor. At the Court of Honor Paul shook the hands of 6 boy scouts. About 20 minutes before the Court of Honor was over he began shaking with chills and was white as a ghost. He was really sick. The next day he got the lovely Swine Flu test up his nose and it came back positive. Paul has truly been wiped out with it. I put Paul downstairs on the couch where he is "quarantined" until he's better. I have done a ton of laundry since then, sprayed lots of Lysol, and said "wash your hands!" a hundred times. We also have spent $450 to get our whole family on TamiFlu in hopes the rest of us don't get it. So far, so good. Good thing it is General Conference this weekend, I think everyone is a little scared to get around our family.
