in the company of mouse.

FEB has been FAB.
It has also been a blur.
My gut seizes when I realize it is almost over.
Time is flying.
I feel like if I inhale real deep... then exhale real slow my time here will be done.
I wanna savor every moment.

For the first 2.5 weeks of this FAB month I had the privilege of "housesitting" for some grand friends who were in the North America's for their break.
IT WAS AMAZING.
Such an amazing "working holiday;)". Amazing quiet... amazing reflection... amazing friends that slept over to keep me company... and even an amazing little mouse.

I say this mouse was amazing... cause I truly think he was... and can say nothing for the way I treated him. Amazing he was... for I would have thrown in the towel days before this little lad was forcefully let go.

You see, he liked to visit in the evenings... and I didn't mind his presence... but the look on one of my classmates face one night when they saw him made me realize I should probably be rid of him b/f the tenants of this lovely abode got back. So the next day I went to the mall and got a sticky trap. We'd used these before... I knew they worked good... I just didn't think through the time-frame of trapping-til-death... and what this process would entail. Had I know I may have never started with the process... and claimed ignorance.

To spare you from all the details... lets just say he was not dead when I though he should be... and he was free from the stickiness when I thought he was not... and well... after nearly a week long wrestle with this little invader, his struggle was at last forced out, by the powerful arm of Laura, and the duster stick she held.

WHAT I CAN TAKE AWAY FROM THIS: I like mice when they are alive and scampering around. I hate mice when they are half dead... or trapped and alive... and I gotta finish them off. Next time I may forgo the sticky trap.

Onto other all important matters...
I have been loving the birthroom, and finding myself very busy in it this past week. Shifts have been busy with babies, and in my spare time I've been updating all my log books and entering all the info into a database for future reference on my little mac. I discovered that I've done over 88 postpartum check-ups, more that 540 prenatal visits... and well... I am still SLOWLY going through the birth books... but so far have overturned at least 140 births that I have attended.

It feels like a lot and a little all at the same time, as this is all we live and breath after all. Does mean that there has been an opportunity or two to learn along the way, and when we got our assignment schedule last week for this next month it is unnerving to realize that we are very near to completing the coursework... I am thinking by the end of April... WOW. Nuts. I might start hyperventilating!

So then that propels us into May... and June... and well... our "end" date of mid-July is just around the corner! NUTTO MADDDNESSSS.

Anyways. I have ranted for a while now. Will gracefully let you go. Enjoy the pics of the adventure with our friend "mouse". I really wish he had a good name. Anyways...
The other pics explain themselves. This part of the beauty in my life.