How I started the day...

Last night at 2:00am Brielle and I saw the mouse that lives in our house.

It just scampered here and there looking for a place to find warmth and comfort.

It was the tiniest mouse I have ever seen. So adorable and small. It's little body 

took up about 1/2 an inch of floor space.

I saw it. 

I admired

I respected.

This morning I woke up and went out to greet Lauren as she studied Biblical Womanhood  and the quiet, gracious feminine heart from her Bible on the porch in the chilly morning air as the dew was just slipping off the blades of grass that adorn our front yard. 

Stacey: Good morning Lauren! 

Lauren: didyouheartheNEWs?!!

[ pause ] 

Lauren: you had to have heard.

[ I am not even conscious yet ]

Lauren: there is a mouse.

[ immediately my heart returns to the the idyllic picture of the miniscule animal that I have affectionately named charlie ]

Lauren: we are going to kill the mouse. we have to kill it. we are going to kill it. 

...

thanks lauren. 

nice to see you too. 

what a way to start the day.