They could survive a nuclear bomb

There are a lot of things I miss about your old house. There are a lot of things I miss about Oklahoma. One of those things does not include the cracks in the house. Another is not all the nasty creatures and pests that reside in Oklahoma and find their way into those cracks in our house. We got little mice two of the three years we lived in that house. Mike has a weird sense of humor and liked to take pictures of the unfortunate creatures once they were caught.

Those mice brought me to tears when Mike was in Guam and my attempts to catch them were fruitless. But the pest that brought me the most grief and nightmares, literally, were the cockroaches.

Yes, we got cockroaches. Nasty, nasty. They came about six months before we moved. Each morning I would walk into the kitchen and take a deep breath before turning on the light just hoping not to find once scurrying across the floor. Ugh, just thinking about it makes me shiver. One night I was so crazy about it that Mike just looked at me dumbfounded,

"What is wrong with you?"

"There are cockroaches in my house! What do you think is wrong with me? It makes me physically ill thinking about it. I don't feel safe."

"Good grief."

Yeah, until one Saturday morning something tickled my arm and I jerked my eyes open to find a cockroach on my bed. Filthy, disgusting pets of the devil. I screamed and Mike took back his "Good grief."

We did everything we could think of to get rid of them. Our sinks were spotless, free of dishes, wiped dry of any water drops, and plugged in case any cockroaches decided to climb up the spout. Floors were swept and garbage taken out right before we went to bed. Dirty diapers were moved far from the house. We had cockroach traps and Borax spread all over the house and garage. We saw a drastic decrease in cockroaches. Then we went to Maryland in January and when we got back we were sure we had gotten rid of them because we didn't see any....until March.

I found one and my stomach just ached. How could they be back?! We were selling our house and it was spotless. I couldn't possibly keep it any cleaner. I didn't see any for a few days and I had felt this feeling that I didn't need to worry about the cockroaches. Then I found another, and another. And when I found the third cockroach I cried quite a bit. I could not feel good about selling our house knowing it was infested by cockroaches. I had felt so certain that I didn't need to worry about them but my feelings seemed to prove incorrect.

But, I was wrong. We never saw anymore than those three cockroaches. Maybe they were hiding...

Saturday night we watched The Chronicles of Narnia. When the movie ended and we turned the lights on, imagine my surprise when I saw something scurrying across our floor at lightning speed. It was a...

COCKROACH! Gasp!

No wait,

It was a spider.

Phew...

I've never been so happy to see a spider in my life.