The kids say Mom has balls!

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I got to tell you, this has been some night. Some of you may remember my terrorizing stories about me and mice (terrorizing to me anyway). Well this morning I was awakened at 4am by a tapping sound. I thought someone was trying to break into my house. I went out into the hallway and looked towards the downstairs. I saw and heard nothing so went back to bed. A few minutes later I heard the tapping sound again. I went through the whole house - had to in order to get the phone which was in the basement! I wanted it with me in case I had to call 911. I told my family about my story. My girls decided to investigate earlier this evening. They freaked out when they heard not a tapping sound, but a clawing sound behind my bedroom wall. I called DH at work which was useless, so I called a neighbour. He came over and assessed the situation banging on walls as he went (the sound had stopped). My house is a 4-level side-split therefore the attic is separated in two (I didn't know this), hence the two different trap door entries - the entry to the lower attic is in my younger daughter's closet wall; the entry to the upper attic is in the ceiling of my older daughter's closet. I went outside and saw that it pretty much made sense. I went around to the backyard and saw a racoon go running up the tree. So I knew the racoon was out of our attic. I had called my daughter's soccer coach from last summer. After all his company, a pest control company, sponsored the team. He told me the best thing was to throw a bunch of moth balls up there and that would repel the racoon. Okay, so who was going to do that?! We called on other neighbours who had no moth balls, and were also freaked out. One of these guys is a volunteer police officer. I caved, missed the beginning of Big Brother and went to Walmart and bought the biggest box of moth balls. I got out the rubber gloves and very slowly opened the trap door in my daughter's closet. I peered in (had to make sure the racoon hadn't returned), even got a flashlight and looked around (I was praying there were no dead mice up there!) and then just threw handfuls of moth balls as far as I could into the attic. DH will have to go on the roof tomorrow and find out where that sucker got in. My kids still won't sleep in their rooms tonight though. But I did it! I got balls!