It got this bad during our second year of marriage in 2008 when we lived in this small 2 car garage that had been converted into an apartment where we managed a house full of BYU-Idaho student boys. The place and job made for many laughs and memories we treasure but the one memory I wish I could forget took place in the middle of that Summer. Scott was responsible for taking care of the property and had let go of the side of the house where it was just dirt and a LOT of weeds that had grown to the top of our knees and went along the whole side of the house right next to our windows. He finally cut down all the weeds one weekend which I thought I would appreciate since they defiantly were starting to look bad, this house wasn't anything fancy and it would have taken a miracle for it to look good so the weeds were hardly noticed compared to the rest of the houses issues.
Little did we know by letting the weeds get out of hand and then cutting them all down would result in an ARMY of spiders moving into our house. This place was too small for Scott and I... we definitely did not have room for the spiders! For the next week or two I would spot multiple spiders in a day... they were EVERYWHERE! I was sitting at my desk which was in a small narrow pantry/closet that was big enough for my desk and chair and not much else when all of a sudden a spider dropped down right in front of my face! I jumped back so high I flung back on chair causing it to fall over backwards and I ran out of that closet as quick as I could. Scott was at school so I was done for the day working at that point because there was NO WAY I was going back in there to get my laptop to keep working! I was so paranoid of spiders after this whole experience we moved out! To this day I am still freaked out by spiders and cant even kill them on my own! I wont even take Luke to the park up our street because the spider webs are so bad on it I freak out if I have to get close them!
Now there is only one spider in the whole world that I LOVE and may not be able to live without at the moment..... his name is.....
The Itsy-Bitsy Spider!
I am a HORRIBLE singer, I have no talent what so ever in the singing category but I still sing to Luke when no one else can hear me. When he is super fussy going to bed, during the day, in the car, During his diaper changing, wherever it is.... the one thing I can count on 95% of the time is singing the Itsy-Bitsy Spider and he calms down and listens. He usually cries right as I am done so I have to sing it over and over again but without it I would be lost! When Scott and I are together and I start to sing it Scott usually will chime in with yelling the last word of the line of the song which Luke seams to enjoy! So our song goes a little like this....
"The itsy-bitsy SPIDER
Climbed up the water SPOUT
Down came the RAIN
And washed the spider OUT
Out came the SUN
And dried up all the RAIN
And the itsy-bitsy SPIDER
Climbed up the spout AGAIN!"
I am hoping my love for the Itsy-Bitsy Spider rubs off on Luke so he doesn't HATE our 8 legged friends as much as I do!
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