I need to blog about our trip to Utah...but since I haven't downloaded my pictures yet, I'm going to begin with the end.
We started out our trek from Utah to Washington...we had planned to stay overnight in Oregon, but the drive was going so well that we decided to push on. We arrived here a little after midnight. After an exhausting day, we got the kids showered and to bed, unloaded the car, and went to climb in bed ourselves. Jan (my step-mom) had left a message saying, "I hope you made it home okay. How nice to sleep in your own bed!!" Thinking about her message, I pulled back my sheets...and saw two very tiny white baby spiders.
After further inspection, we found about fifteen more spiders on our sheets and pillow. What an ending to a LONG day! To tired to deal with it, we fled to our comfortable, spider-free couch. Ugh. So much for sleeping in our own bed!
Our bed is propped up on cinderblocks and there are lots of boxes stored underneath, so hunting for spiders was a big job. When we flipped over our top mattress, we found the shell of an empty spider next embedded into our mattress. At least there was no mystery. We vacuumed like banshees (do banshees vacuum?), moved furniture, changed sheets and pillows, until our room was like new. We only killed about forty baby spiders...don't those nests hold hundreds?
I'm happy to report that it's been two weeks and I've only found one small spider in our bed. But not one night goes by that I don't think something is crawling up my leg!
Just reading your story and seeing that picture makes me imagine one crawling up me! When my family lived in Federal Way for a little while - that house was FULL of spiders. It seemed every time I went to take a shower or bath there was a few in there and they weren't little ones! I was probably 8 at the time and spiders still gross me out.
ReplyDeleteOk - covering the drains tonight. Thank you very much - it's like I feel them on me! ! ! ! ! AAAUUUUGGGHHHHH
ReplyDeleteTotally had the shivers in that story, and I think I would have been sick over here!! You have such a great attitude!! :)
ReplyDeleteSo I'm itching now just reading about that. I don't think I would ever be able to fall asleep again in my bed if that happened to me!
ReplyDeleteOOHHH, ick, I'm so sorry!! I've woken up to mosquitoes, red and green aphids, and crickets, but no spiders (on me) so far. Of course, there was that time two years ago that Dh woke up with start at dawn to a huge (nickel size body + legs) spider crawling across his throat... Good ole' family housing!
ReplyDeleteI think I would have lit the mattress on fire instead of just vaccuming it. I am terrified of sleeping wtih spiders in my bed.
ReplyDeleteCreepy!!! Very Halloween appropriate dont' you think?
ReplyDeleteYuck...now you have to tell me when you update your blog so I don't come back to pictures of spiders! ;)
ReplyDeleteI'll never forget camp that one year...never again do I wish that on anyone! Glad to hear you haven't found more - and I think most of them flee from where they're born (per the ever accurate Charlotte's Web, haha), so hopefully this means they're miles away from you. Guess I'll be checking my sheets tonight...
AHHH!!! No good at all!!! That would be awful to come home to that, in your bed no less!! Glad you got rid of them! Yeesh!!
ReplyDeleteyeah, i am itching too. i think that there is one on my arm, and my leg, and my feet and... what an awful thing to come back too. i remember coming back to our apt. and turning on the lights nad seeing mice (yes plural) scampering out of the way yuck.
ReplyDeleteL O V E the pictures though. oregon coast ones are so beautiful and i can't believe how big and how cute jacob is. those curls and those eyes!
you should come up and visit us. we are home most every day. the boys would have fun playing together and you could meet baby edie. let me know when. i would love it.