Scariest Words Ever

Here are words you never want to hear when you're upstairs at night, home alone with your daughters, hearing what you think are weird noises coming from downstairs (hoping it's just the cats) and one of the girls goes into the hallway only to turn right back around and say "There's someone on the stairs."  Fear shot through me but I just played it off like there was no way someone could be on our stairs and told Audrey to continue into her room to get a book (Mother of the Year, right here!).  She kept insisting there was someone and refused to go into her room alone - a total first for Miss I Can Do It Myself.  At this point I jumped up to see if someone was, in fact, coming up to kill us but thank God no one was there.  When I told Audrey this she said, "I heard someone on the stairs."  Well, that's a lot different than "there is."  Turns out that she was hearing Vivian's feet kicking the floor which did sound like someone on the stairs.  It took my nerves quite awhile to calm down from that one!  As for what those strange noises were, I'm still chalking it up to the cats.