"Today I saw a mouse in my son's room," she wrote. "A mouse. Stewart Little has decided to come in my house and set up camp near my son's drawers. (Not his pants, American people, his clothes drawer thing)."
Mazza said she headed off her toddler daughter as the girl attempted to enter the room and slammed the door to the bedroom shut once she and the girl were safely on the outside.
Mazza's husband convinced her to look inside the room to verify that it was still there.
"I open the door so slowly...inch by inch in snail speed, so slow that I can hear my husband asking if I'm still there. Lol
And it's there. In the same spot.
'It's dead!!!!!' I shut the door.
Oh my lord the mouse is dead. I have a DEAD mouse in my house. I start to cry a little bit.
'It's dead... it never had a chance to live its life.'
'Babe just go scoop it up with a piece of paper and put it in the bin. I have to go to a meeting.'"
Mazza said she took "a couple of swigs of whiskey" to steel her nerves before bursting back into the boy's room to face her fears -- which turned out not to be all that scary after all. In fact, it wasn't even a mouse.
Mazza posted a second picture in the comments with a close-up of what is indeed a toy leopard.