Mouse In The House Round 2

At the end of November, I was just finishing up my junior field experience student teaching.  I had to prepare a lesson for the students, and I decided to do a lesson on adjectives involving the Grinch.  My cooperating teacher was kind enough to let me teach for 4 consecutive days.  The first day I read the kids a story about adjectives and we came up with our own adjectives on the board.  The next day I read "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" to the students and then I put The Grinch up on the SMARTboard and we came up with adjectives to describe The Grinch.  The next day we talked about and found similes and metaphors in The Grinch song.  Finally, on the last day, the students wrote a story about their day with The Grinch.  This was my last day in the class, and I figured I would surprise the students with Grinch cookies!! (Basically the cookies were green sugar cookies.) The students absolutely LOVED the cookies, and I had about seven 3rd graders come up and ask me for THE RECIPE! (TOO CUTE!!)  But making the cookies was quite the process!

I was at Logan's, and after supper I had started to make the cookies.  I mixed all of the ingredients together and put the cookies on the baking sheet. (Remind you, from my last post, I can only use the small toaster oven, so I have to use a small 8x8 pan that I can only bake 4-5, MAYBE 6 cookies in at a time--which takes FOREVER when you have a whole class to bake for!!)  The baking was going well.  I was popping the cookies in and out of the oven and all was going smooth.  

While waiting for the second to last batch to bake, I was sitting on the couch commenting to Logan that we hadn't seen any mice in the house today.  I spoke too soon!!  I went over to the small oven to take the cookies out.  I opened the oven door, and just as I was about to take the cookies out, I saw something moving around on the floor.  A MOUSEE!! I screamed, ran into the living room, jumped over the couch and stood on the couch.  Logan is sitting in the chair looking at me like what the heck is your problem! I tell him there is a mouse--over by the oven--and I am not going over there until it is gone!!!  So Logan gets up, walks over to the oven, and the mouse is gone.  THANK GOD!!  So I continue to bake my last batch of cookies, paranoid that the mouse will come back and run around by my feet again!! (It's even worse knowing that you saw the mouse, but know it didn't get killed, so you know that it's running around somewhere in your house!!)

Farm Girl Tip # 14:  If you plan on making cookies some evening, BE AWARE of your surroundings--just incase a mouse is running around by your feet!!

Here is a picture of The Grinch cookies I had made for the students.  They absolutely LOVED them!!