Crochet Me Crazy

What have I been doing besides crocheting? Well...kids, kids, kids....my house is grand central station from 3:30 when the school bus arrives. On any given day, their is a minimum of 3 extra kids at my house besides my two. I spend a lot of time chasing the messes. My house is not very quiet!!

Alison got a pet mouse last week at the pet store. Pretty sweet little thing, actually. Very tame and seems really content to run on its wheel all day! The kids across the street decided they had to have one too so they quickly went out and got 3 mice at a different pet store! Well, their mice had not been handled and were mean and hyper. They haven't gotten a cage yet so their mice have been house guests in our cage for the past week. One managed to escape and is now a fugitive in our house! We haven't seen it since! Last night, we had a trauma when another one of theirs got loose and our dog, Brindy got it! The mouse died and Alison proceeded to cry hysterically for about an hour. Michael took on the duty of pet grave officiator since Daddy is out of town. We have added another pet grave to our back yard!

Another new thing we are dealing with is my 9 year old daughter is attracting the neighborhood boys! Sigh....here we go! We knew this would happen eventually. So far, the only boys she likes is her daddy, brother, and the guitarist from the Newboys Band! Thank God! The neighbor boy gave her a box of chocolate for Valentines Day and I think another boy has since decided to take back his admission that he liked her since she doesn't like him back! LOL! One boy told Alison's older brother, Michael, he would pay him if he would get Alison to go out on a "date" with him! LOL! I've got news for him! She won't be going out on a "date" with anyone no matter how much he pays!! LOL! She's 9 and he's 8!! The only thing that amazes me about the whole thing is that when I was that age, we liked each other but we certainly didn't let them know that!!! Geez, I liked the same boy from 2nd to 5th grade and never spoke a word to him!! LOL Well, at least I KNOW what my kids are doing since they are always here for me to keep an eye on.