Walking Therein

New Shirts and Wh-a-a-a-t?

I figured that since I am most likely going to get told on about this , I may as well be the one doing the telling on my own blog!  So, I was sitting in the couch today, asking Amanda, the Laundry Mgr. *who* washed Matt's new P.O. shirts. I wanted to take the pockets off of 2 T's and another shirt so I could wear them, and I had asked that they not be washed until I did.

But, alas, here I was sitting looking at Eric in front of our slightly-beaten-up green laundy basket, putting all of the lately washed navy P.O. shirts on hangers.

"Hmmmm. So no one washed them, huh?"  I went down the line, questioning each capable child, but to no avail. No one could recall putting them in with the darks. So, I decided I would go ahead and try them on, make sure they fit before I tore off the pocket and other emblem patch. (They'd better fit... They're XLs!)

I asked Amanda to hold Lucy whilst I went into the bathroom, and she, of course, was happy to. I think we were still trying to figure out who could have- would have - possibly put these shirts into the washer, running the gamut of "you did" and "you must have" and "Are you sure you didn't?" as I sat down to grab the shirts off from the couch.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" I literally screamed - out loud - rather loudly, in fact.  I threw the shirts to the floor, holding onto the one inparticular, shaking it. Amanda was about in hysterics, laughing so hard I don't even know if she was still breathing. All I could see was her mouth - open - wide - laughing at me as hard as she could. Jocelyn, on the other hand - and at the same time - was frantically asking me what was wrong, what? what?

I guess Amanda just knew it was a spider. A creepy crawly brown with black stripes wolf spider that looked much larger crawling around on that navy shirt out of the corner of my eye than it actually was. You know it took me by surprise. When Amanda finally got around to taking a breath, what were the first coherent words she spoke? "I am so going to blog about this!" Of course, you had to listen in between the breaths and the almost-wheezing sounds as she still could not contain herself!

All the while she is trying to get even a couple of sentences out, Eric the Brave has gotten a -something-or-other to squish the poor little creature. Yeah, didn't break my heart to see it smooshed. Even when Caleb 7ds2 decided *he* was the hero and squished it with his bare feet. Ick. And Isaac had to get something to just make sure it was all the way dead.

And the shirts? Are you kidding? I was 10 steps away from putting that spider-infested Tshirt on. I don't even think so. I had Eric put them into the dryer... yeah, heat, *that* will kill them. You know, there must have been more on them somewhere!  Better safe than sorry!  I don't know yet if they fit. I still haven't tried them on! lol.

YUCK!

blessings! -Jacque

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3:13 PM, Friday, July 13, 2007 .. Posted by Ebell1993

I hate spiders!! Yuck!!
Elizabeth

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3:29 PM, Friday, July 13, 2007 .. Posted by quietcajun

LOLOLOLOLOL ROFLOL... that is soooo funny b/c I am the same way! And it seems like everything funny that happens around here gets discussed as possible blog material... although not all of it makes it to the "headlines" it definitely gets discussed!

ugh

4:13 AM, Saturday, July 14, 2007 .. Posted by AFJen88

It's all right. My kids have stories of me dealing with all sorts of critters. When we lived in Texas, we had a scorpion problem. My oldest very much recalls me 'hammering' a scorpion to death on the garage floor. Such violence! :)
I won't tell you my snake stories. ;)
Thanks for dropping by my blog!

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10:47 PM, Saturday, July 14, 2007 .. Posted by H0MEFree

Yuck!
I was visiting my mom out at her farm and we went out outside to the porch where she had a stash of boots to throw on before braving the mud. She began to put them on and the second one had something in it!!
She did not get it all the way on when her toes felt something. The boot went spinning and flying through the air as she jumped around in a circle screaming- simutaneously BABY MICE went flying through the air- scattering everywhere. I laughed so much I cried and was glad it was not me.

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3:06 PM, Sunday, July 15, 2007 .. Posted by drewsfamilytx

With his bare feet?! Ewww... but what a hero!

Wolf spiders are nasty. Dh squished one once and a bzillion baby spiders immediately ran out in all directions. Talk about disgusto-busto!!! Blech. Ick. :-p

Now are you sure *you* didn't accidentally put the shirts in the wash?

God bless you,
Marsha