I feel like I've been violated...

If you've know anyone that has gotten lice, you know they're not bad people, or really dirty people, just people that happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time- or maybe standing next to someone at the wrong time- and using their hairbrush. We've not had lice at our house- and I PRAY regularly that we will not, because I will have a VERY hard time with it. I know its nothing that we've done wrong, it just might happen. Just like bad things happen to good people- like cancer, and cancer sores, or warts.
We don't have lice, but we do seem to have mice. Yes, I'm completely freaked out of my mind over this. COMPLETELY!!! We've spent the last week going through each and every shelf in our garage and thrown away a good amount of food storage that was vulnerable. If you don't have stock in Rubbermaid, you should because I'm now putting vulnerable foods like sugar and flour inside rubbermaid containers before they go on the shelf.The only things that are safe are in metal cans or plastic buckets. The stupid creatures seem to also have come up through my island to the cupboard that houses pots and pans.. there is no food in sight, but they've left their markings. Again, I'm completely freaked out. I'm now storing pots and pans on the dining room table. We are calling an exterminator and I've gone to Freds to find whatever means I can to get rid of them.
The reason I'm such a freak has something to do with growing up- and visiting this again, may bring me in for therapy. Growing up in California my parents bought an older house that had large oak trees out front with lots of ivy. Do you know what lives in big oak trees with lots of ivy? Mice and Rats. I'm getting ill just thinking about this. Anyway, my dad tried to get rid of a few mice/rats by using DCON in the garage-because thats where they were initially- and evidently sometimes this makes them "search" for water. So, they got inside the walls of the house... its was right out of Poltergeist. I had to call my sister to talk me down. She and I went over how awful it was, then I called my mom again, and she reminded me of even more horrors during that time, as well as growing up. Like the fact that mice can jump pretty high and get into really really small spaces. Don't worry, I've got OCD and one of my issues is germs, so I've taken over the top precautions with food and cleanliness. If you know a good exterminator, please let us know. I'm calling in a HAZMAT team if I don't get some peace in a day or two. I sent Ryan to Fred's tonight to find that expanding foam stuff, we looked for any and all small holes in the garage and under the island. I"M FREAKED OUT!!!!! Bad things happen to good people, remember... How do you have an outside cat that will take care of your mice problem? Do you still feed the cat? These are my questions at 1am on Thursday morning. Is this worth getting an outside cat? Could we do this and never let it in our house- I mean NEVER. The hedgehog seems to have no effect on the mice issue.- Oh and we're not telling the kids because Grace would start asking her class to PRAY for us during morning prayer requests at school- and Grant would talk about it at show and tell- then we might become pariahs at the school.