Open house

We, at the Miller's household have become (cue suspenseful music) flexi-vegans.

(Can I get a) WHAT WHAT??!! Well folks, after watching King Corn and Forks over Knives, we've decided to make some intentional decisions about how we eat. We do still eat meat (gasp), just not nearly as often. And to be honest, we're feeling great, have more consistent energy, and are eating more than we usually do. We have been blessed with kids that have never fought us over eating their vegetables, in fact, if anything, the kids don't eat meat. We have always had a hard time getting them to eat their meat, so we decided to just roll with it.

The biggest change is that our kitchen now looks like this, especially right after Paul's been to the farmer's market:

These pictures were taken a few weeks ago, when blueberries were still at the farmer's market. Not so much anymore. :(

We've cleaned up our hand-me-down cast iron skillet and use it often.

We were really enjoying this new way of eating, then we started seeing these (for real? All in one place like this - oh gross!):

So we got out these:

and caught one big mouse. IT WAS DISGUSTING!!

We've had traps out for two more nights and haven't caught any more. He must've been a busy little big guy if he was acting alone. There were ...droppings... everywhere, except on one surface right under the shelving with all our daily-used plates and bowls - thank you Lord!!

Needless to say, the kids and I ate out the night of our discovery. We went to Panera Bread and they were so distracted people-watching that it was the quietest dinner I had had in a long time. Maybe we'll eat out more often.

Our vegan diet has been wavering lately. We've got to come up with some better storage options. If one got in, we know others will too, and the weather is starting to get cold up here, so everything's starting to come in. We found this little guy in our dining room one morning:

He's actually really small, I majorly zoomed in. I found him the next day in the living room corner. I think I'll let him stay. He's "nice" right? I'll let him stay until he gives me a reason to end his life. Hopefully he'll have a yummy winter and eat up all the other bugs that want to come into our "open house." Do you think he could kill mice too?

Happy autumn!