Moments of greatness

I don't know about you guys but I find that there are moments of greatness that go unnoticed in my home that must be shared with others. I wanted to share a few with you now.

Great scenario #1:
This first scenario is reenacted in our home about once every 2-3 months. It is entirely avoidable, but instead we reenact it because of stubbornness and a need for coffee. It goes like this. Matt is sitting at his computer in the morning. He is perusing over the email, daily news, or whatever computer related business he is working on at the moment. I am somewhere in the house doing my own thing in peace and tranquility....when out of nowhere I hear Matt screaming, "OH NO! HURRY, HURRY, HURRY! GET A TOWELLLLLL!!!" Yes, the delicious black coffee has inevitably spilled on one of his many expensive computer parts. What is even greater in this scenario is my dropping everything I am doing in a split second, dashing towards any region of the house that might have a towel, tripping over 1-2 pieces of furniture, and stumbling into his office to help clean up the mess. With a couple of keyboards, mouse(s), and other parts in the graveyard due to this coffee stubbornness, you would think we would give up this moment of greatness.

Great scenario #2
We have a mouse problem. We live near a huge field and during the cold months, our home is the obvious place for these critters to cozy up. Not cool!...but it has provided some hilarious moments of greatness in our house. Recently Matt awoke from a dead sleep in the middle of the night because he heard something. In good 'Matt the protector' fashion, he rushed out of the room to investigate. He approached the kitchen and realized that the noise was strikingly similar to someone rattling open the door leading to the laundry room, and thus he began yelling obscenities to scare the intruder. It turned out my husband was awakened in the middle of the night, stumbling half-awake into the kitchen, and yelling obscenities....at a mouse stuck in a trap trying to escape behind the stove. Moment of greatness!

Great scenario #3
This is also a mouse related tale, but it pays respect to a mouse, oddly enough. In our effort to catch these critters the last few months we have grown to respect one dearly departed mouse. Most of the mice go down in shame in either a glue trap or traditional snap trap. One mouse received death by snap trap but was a hero going down. We heard a trap go off one night right before bed. Gross as it sounds, we were both exhausted and decided to discard of the little guy in the morning. When we awoke in the morning, the mouse was no where to be found. Even more mysteriously, the trap was missing. Thus began my hunt for the missing mouse. No where in the kitchen. No where in the laundry room next door...until I moved some storage boxes and found the creature. The little guy had dragged himself and the trap nearly 10 feet, squeezing around large objects. He fought all night long. He was a hero.

Great scenario #4
Ok, one more mouse tale. (Like I said, we have a mouse problem!) This one occurred this evening. As I was doing the laundry yesterday, I noticed 'evidence' that a mouse had sneaked into the dirty laundry basket. Using a healthy dosage of bleach, I feverishly began that load of laundry hoping to disinfect the mouse germs. When I went to put the load in the dryer this evening, I found the load wasn't the only thing put through the wash. Just inches away from my fingers was a washed up and drowned mouse. (Note: add drowning to the list of possible ways to get rid of mice!) Needless to say, what brought Matt (and Keller) running into the laundry room on this night was my shrill scream. Ah....Even I have moments of greatness.