"If you give a mouse a cookie..."

At our home, we have found life is sometimes like the book , "If you give a mouse a cookie.."

If you have someone break into your house, you will decisively say yes to buying an alarm system when the salesman comes to the door. If you buy an alarm system, you might stay in instead of going out so that you don't accidentally set the alarm off in coming or going.
If you stay in the house, you might notice the air conditioner just doesn't seem to be doing a good job of cooling anything in the 110+ weather. (to the point of whenever you go to someone else's house and it is cooler than yours, you assume they are paying through the nose for their A/C bill, when really yours is just not working.) Of course one wouldn't notice the A/C wasn't working until running through the house trying to get a husband packed for a scout camp on a Friday afternoon. When the husband goes on his way to scout camp, you realize it is 2:30pm on a Friday, and there's not likely a way to get someone to fix it before the "weekend" that has already mostly arrived.
If you call the A/C company to send a tech out, you think they are super nice for having consideration to send them within a few hours, because of the little baby situation. When the tech does get on the roof, he will tell you the A/C should never have passed inspection when you bought the house a year ago. Thinking of buying the house a year ago reminds you, that you also purchased a home warranty to cover just such a thing, and then remember the warranty expired a month ago. Then the tech will tell you that the A/C is a very old tank, which will remind you of the time you drove a tank in WWII, oh those were the days.. The tech will also tell you that he has never heard as many short circuits happening in an air conditioner quite like that before, and one could see the fear in his face as he said it. If you see the fear in his face, you will certainly think of the fear of seeing the cost for a new A/C unit, which is completely unavoidable at this point. ...
When one thinks of unavoidable, one might also think how the baby is growing up way too fast, and rolled over for the first time on the floor at the back of primary the weekend the A/C was out.
If one thinks about weekend, one remembered that there were visitors coming from out of town and the guest bedroom needed to be made ready for the following weekend. In making the bedroom ready, one will empty a box of picture frames and shelf things that hadn't quite made it to the shelves in the year since one moved, and in checking to make sure the box was truly empty, one will find a dead scorpion there.
Upon finding a scorpion one will holler and make a fuss and then not make a single peep about it when the visitors come.

We hope that this is THE END ...