(we wish) not a creature was stirring.

It's been a more than a month of man vs. mouse in our house.
And it's getting a little ridiculous.
We couldn't figure out why they wouldn't go for anything (cheese, pb, attractant gel) we put in the multiple types of traps we so carefully set out. How could they resist such goodies?
Then one day I found this:

the entire bag EMPTY. not even a shiny wrapper.
merry christmas, dave.
i was SO angry!

 At some point our dishwasher died. Removing the insulation they'd so craftily used to build their mouse house underneath, we found several chewed thru wires, and the grossest nastiness ever.
the upside? we got a new dishwasher for christmas... and it's the first magnetic surface we've ever had-- so now we can actually use these as they were intended:

this message was written for me by my first born, who is figuring out how to spell.
he added all of our "favorite" numbers at the end.
perhaps he could be a license plate designer.
thanks for the new dishwasher, mice. it is good for my self esteem.

just need to find those "i's".
perhaps the mice took them too--