Last night about 1:45 in the morning Caysja comes in our room and wakes me up saying, "Mommy, there's a grasshopper (that's what she calls a cricket) in the bathroom". I'm half asleep and kind of annoyed that she woke me up, but I get up with her and head off to the bathroom and what do I find...not a grasshopper at all but a SCORPION!! And it was the little kind too--the extra poisonous ones!!!! Aaaaagh! It was all I could to keep from screaming! All this time we've lived in AZ (over 2 years now) and I've always considered myself soooo lucky because I had never seen one, not once, not in my apartment, not outside, never ever. Well, that came to an end last night. I went and woke Caleb up (he thought I was making it up) until he saw it and then he was a little nervous too, considering that he's never killed one before. He swatted it with our fly swatter and flushed it down the toilet and we all went back to bed. Well, there was no way I was going back to sleep after that--in fact, I think it took me about 2 hours and by that time it was time to get up and go running! Needless to say, I'm really tired today. Every little movement I felt I thought, "was that a scorpion crawling on ME?" I kept re-playing in my mind last night all the things I've ever heard about scorpions...like if you see one, you probably have more somewhere, or they are impossible to get rid of....etc. Can someone help me out here? What is fact and what is fiction? My family is coming for Thanksgiving this week and some of them will be sleeping on the FLOOR!! Scary! Besides that I have an 11 month old that crawls all over the floor every day (putting everything in his mouth along the way) and none of us wear shoes inside! Anyway, I am sooo thankful that Caysja is okay and that she came and got me instead of going potty and getting stung!
Jess & Lex & Grandma
11 months ago
