A Mouse in the House

So for the past week Ryan and I have thought that maybe there was a mouse or some other small creature living in our kitchen somewhere. A while back we heard some scratching but thought it was probably squirrels on our roof. My grandmother sent up a beautiful Christmas arrangement with pine cones, roses, berries, and pine tree branches. Every so often I would realize that when we woke up in the morning there were pine tree branches on the bar area where the arrangement was. Also we had a gingerbread house that we made and we had noticed that is seemed like the powdered sugar "snow" would disappear. Then a couple of days ago I was walking by our bar area and I realized that a small bowl of mint candies that i had set out was completely empty. Now, I assumed Ryan ate them and he thought I ate them. We asked each other and even thought he said no, I thought he was joking. But last night convinced us of the truth. We woke up this morning to f ind the petals from all of the roses scattered across the bar, along the counter top, and in a huge pile on the floor next to our dishwasher. There was also a surprising hole next to the dishwasher that we had never noticed before!

I plan to call the maintence people for our apartment office tomorrow. The kids in my class just finished reading a novel about The Littles, tiny 6 inch people with tails who live in the home of normal people. The Little take things and cause mischeif around the house the live, but they also help the owners. I keep imagaing The Little family living family behind my dishwasher. But it's probably a mouse or squirrel. It better not be a rat. Whatever it is, I just want it to leave. I don't want to be the one to kill it or find it dead!