The Montagues and Capulets

So after Romeo and Juliet met their dark and tragic ending while we were vacationing on the Cape, we started to have run-ins with their family members.

For some reason, we had only seen our mouse friends at night just running through the living room. Then we saw one dart into the stove late at night...

Then they started to get brave and we began to see them in broad daylight.

One morning, I saw one dash from the bathroom to our linen closet. I thought, "Oh hell no! You are not nesting in my linens and towels. I will kill you mouse."

This fleeting moment caused me to create a vendetta against the mice in my house because I simply will not put up with this crap. This meant war.

Later that day, we saw a mouse dart from the kitchen sink cabinets to under the fridge also during daylight hours.

After that I started to hallucinate seeing mice EVERYWHERE. If the light bounced off my glasses in a flash I would jump six feet into the air. If something moved in the wind I would scream. I shrieked at dust bunnies, at reflections of birds in the floor and literally everything else that moved in or out of my mind or didn't move at all.

I was tormented and couldn't relax so I went to grocery store and stocked up on an arsenal of mouse-combating weaponry that would put the United States Army to shame. I bought a ton of glue traps because we know those work. I also purchased a new-fangled trap where the mouse goes in this cute little tunnel to peanut butter hidden in it's depths and then snap!! It gets whacked inside with a spring trap mechanism but you never have to see it's corpse EVER.

Based on our recent sitings, we put glue traps and the fun new traps everywhere we saw the little boogers and started to play the waiting game.