(This is an original New York City Moms blog posted on March 15th, 2010.) You know the expression “when the cat’s away, the mice will play?”  Well, in my house this week, it’s been the reverse, as the mice are killing each other.  My husband has just taken a new job and had a week between the old and the new.  We decided it was a good time for him to spend some quality with his family in England.  The children did not want to go for such a long time, and I thought, how bad could it be watching the two critters for a week?  For the … [Read more...]