The spiders have returned!...and I beat my kids.

There are pros and cons to having a corn field in your backyard. Pros....I could practically lay out naked and no one would ever know! ;) Cons....CORN SPIDERS!

Yes...the corn spiders have made their annual return! And these suckers are HUGE!!! Great big brown fuzzy things that attack my house from Sept til November or so. There supposed to be harmless...but you'll see further in my post that Drew begs to differ! For the most part they usually stay in the basement and only ocassionally will we see them in other parts of the house. FYI....when we haul out our Christmas stuff I always stand back a bit because I just know those little effers are back there! ;)

This year though they seem to be alot more daring. I saw one just casually climbing up the main stairs, found one in the laundry room and one in the hallway. I know theres lots more but I'm pretending that there not there unless I actually see them okay?!

So even though I know these things are in the house..they still scare the bejeebus out of me when I find one. Yesterday Drew comes walking into the kitchen as I'm packing up Brooke's lunch and I say good morning to him. Imagine the horror on my face when I see one right.on.the.front.of.his.shirt! OH MY HELL! So me...being the fab mother that I am....I'm going to kill that sucker! I grab the closest object ( Brooke's lunchbox)and start whacking at it! Wham on Drew's chest, wham on his arm, wham on his back..this thing just keeps moving! Drew starts crying at this point and I said just stand there I'll get it honey. He says stop hitting me I don't care about the spider. OMG...in my moment of insanity I realize that I'm beating Drew to a pulp with a lunch box.. which is fully loaded might I add =P Oops! The spider then drops to the floor and we quickly put it to it's death with a flip flop!

The kids are now laughing at what a raging lunatic I became trying to kill this thing. And Brooke points out that it's a good thing that it was just a soft sided lunchbox within my reach and not a frying pan.


Go ahead... check exterminator off my list of thing to be when I grow up as well.