EEEK!

We had a little excitement at my house last night. NO not THAT kind of excitement you naughty naughty reader! It was a perfectly normal evening. We had tucked the children into bed and the house was quiet. CCB was playing a game on the computer and had put on some headphones. I was in the living room composing my grocery list for the next day. Then I heard this scratching sound. Now scratching sounds are not uncommon at my house. I have two cats and they scratch in the litter box and the small scratches on the walls for some reason. (She has no claws but still likes to act as though she does.)

I looked in the direction of the scratching to see if it was the cat but it wasn't. She was very intently staring up at the ceiling with her ears all twitchy. I followed her gaze up the wall. I guess I should tell you that the people who put on the addition made the family room look "cabiny" it has wood on the walls. (I haven't decided what I'm going to do with that quite yet.) ANYWAY.......There are knot holes and such in the wood so when I saw this dark spot near the ceiling I was unsure whether it had always been there or if it was new. I walked closer to check it out. As I got closer my heart rate started to quicken. I didn't think it was supposed to be there. I couldn't go to CCB because I would have to pass near this dark thing on the wall, so I start to call to him. The children are in bed so I start off fairly quiet. No CCB. I get louder. He still didn't hear me. Finally my voice makes it past those darn ear buds and he hears me.

CCB comes in the room to find me with both hands up at my mouth and my eyes wide. "Is that what I hope it isn't?" I asked him. He walks closer and replies,"Yep. That's a bat." THERE WAS A BAT IN MY HOUSE! After much tipy toeing full body shivers and stifled squeals(on my part) CCB managed to get the little bugger out of my house. The previous owners had installed surround sound speakers and we found the bat near one. I was hoping this was how the bat got into the house but they had filled in the hole they drilled in the ceiling. That makes things worse! Now I have no clue how this thing got into my house. We've been here for 18 months now and this is the first time this has happened. I saw them in the sky a couple of weeks ago but never up close. CCB has to work late tonight so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we have no visitors. If we do CCB will come home to find me catatonic on the sofa staring at the darn thing! I can't tell my daughter or she will be UBER freaked out.


OH and when my husband went to take the winged beast outside......there was an opossum on the fence! IN TOWN. Since we've been here we've encountered mice, roaches the size of vienna sausages, snakes, opossums, man eating insects, quick little lizards and now bats. We moved from my beloved Colorado to freakin' WILD KINGDOM!