The life of a Sturgeon...: SPIDERS

I hate spiders. I just can't stand them! So it's ironic that I live in the house that the spiders seem to love. I do daycare, so I have to be the tough bug killer so I do not freak out the kids...well I am not always successful at this! I don't think Jose believes me when I tell him about the enormous spiders I have to kill on a regular basis. So I took pictures today. I went into the bathroom downstairs getting ready to change diapers and right in my face on the wall was a HUGE spider. Now this is unfortunately not the biggest spider I've encountered. A couple weeks ago I found one of my kids with a cup scooping in the big ball bin in the playroom. I go and look and there is the hugest spider I've ever seen! I could see fur and fangs, I promise you! I did some screaming and shivering and finally got up the courage with a huge wad of paper towels to squish the thing. Then I couldn't get myself to pick up the towels for fear that I did not kill it. So I started pouring it into the garbage - I did kill it, and it was still huge! So today, I again did a little shrieking and shivering, but this time it was able to move more being it was on the wall and not in the bin. So I was not about to get close enough to use a towel. I got a broom! Of course I hit it just enough to make him fall onto the changing table and start running around. I wacked that thing so many times with the broom it didn't have a chance! So there it is all curled up on the table and I still couldn't get enough courage to get a towel. I did a little freaking and then finally with about 10 towels wadded up went and squished the dumb thing and threw it in the garbage. Man do I hate spiders! So I sleep in the basement and all I can do is imagine that these huge spiders crawl all over me in my sleep - you've heard the tale that you supposedly swallow at least 8 spiders a year, right? Eeewwww.... Have you seen the movie The Mist yet? Yeah that didn't help with my fear of large bugs! Not to mention, it is foggy outside today! :) So anyway, between those huge spiders and the occasional mouse, I do get my excitement around here. The mice I do not handle though - my dad or Jose have had to come here to get the mice for me. I did trap one under a bucket once until they could get here. :) Poor kids, they're all going to grow up having panic attacks at spiders and mice because their daycare teacher couldn't pull it together!