Oh right, we had a snake in our house.

I cannot believe I forgot to post about this. It kind of seems unreal that it actually happened. So, it was a regular night at the Rettig house. Dan was outside mowing and Carter had just gone to sleep. Sean and I made our way upstairs around 8:30 and I sent him in the bathroom to go before bed. He walked in the bathroom and stopped in his track as he looked down to see a 2 foot snack just sitting in the middle of our kids bathroom. He and I both just looked at each in shock for a second and then he quickly ran out of the bathroom and then began to convulse. I scooped him up immediately and ran downstairs and outside. When Dan saw us he assumed Sean was having some sort of meltdown. Sean literally was scared to death. We told Dan that there was a snake in our bathroom and so he ran inside to see it and then went back in with a shovel and well you get the picture on what came next. When Sean and I saw it, thankfully it didn't move at all but by the time Dan went back in with the shovel, it was behind the toilet.

We have no idea how it came in the house and made it up that far. Our crawl space is actually a full walk under so it made its way quite far from the ground up. We wonder if it came through the space surrounding the dryer vent? We have no idea. We obviously had an exterminator come the next day and he checked things out and told us it was an Eastern Milk snake which is not poisonous (about 2 feet long) but also not that common here in VA. Who knows where it came from. The "snake" guy laid tracks and closed up any holes below the house to prevent any other slippery friends from joining us in the house. Sean refused to use that bathroom for a few days and even now a week later he sometimes peeks in the downstairs bathroom to make sure it is clear before going in. Going to sleep that night was tough but now it seems like it didn't even happen. I mean who has a snake in their house?!?!?