Lets Give Them Something to Talk About

I am part of a life group.   It is pretty cool.   We meet once a week and talk about our life, we talk about the message that we heard at church on Sunday and we pray for each other and share funny stories about our lives in general.   We usually meet on Thursday nights and each bring some sort of food to share.   This week it was Asian night.   It was so good, people brought all sorts of yummies to share.   I was happy.   My husband always makes the joke about Chinese food being the stray cats and dogs, so as I was in charge of dessert this time, I made something unique.   I made a special cake, Kitty Litter Cake.   Yep, it is a cake that actually looks just like kitty litter.   I put it in a red tub that looked like a litter tray and served it with a slotted spoon.   I made homemade tootsie rolls in the shape of poo on top.   It was pretty convincing.   The “poop” was brown and sticky and mounded on top of what l...

The other day my family was innocently watching a movie on TV when I see a little brown mouse dart across the room.   I wish I could say this was something new for us, but unfortunately, living in the country, this happens more often than I would like to admit.   So my brave husband went and got his shoe and a bucket so we could catch it and kill it, and I stood guard behind the couch to make sure it didn’t get out.   The mouse finally came out and we almost got it, but it disappeared down the AC register. (Nasty right?) So I got out the chunky peanut butter and proceed to set 4 snap traps.   We tie the snap traps to the inside of our register and put them down the vent.   That sounds silly, but we have caught so many mice this way.   In the morning, when I went to check on the traps, I was overjoyed to see that I had caught one.   Now granted, I know that usually where there is one mouse that you see, there are many more that you cannot see, and that...