My Beautiful Boy

Poor Corey

Early this evening Corey and Lachlan went outside to take the rubbish out.  I heard Corey screaming and ran out to see what had happened.

There was a MASSIVE spider on his leg.

He was just terrified.  He later told me that he felt it crawling up his foot (he had bare feet at the time) then looked down and it was on his let (thankfully he was wearing long pants).

I picked up a shoe then he got more stressed saying ‘no don’t it will bite me’.  So then I’m thinking if I just squash it I would be squashing it against his leg and maybe it would bite him.  If I try to flick it off with the shoe, there’s a chance I’d miss or not hit hard enough to get it right off and once again it could bite him.

Dad was nowhere to be seen and I’m not the best person when it comes to spiders, but I had to remain brave for the sake of my terrified boy.

I grabbed a second shoe and I managed to get a shoe on either side of the spider and then quickly squash it between the two shoes.  I was still a little worried about the chance of missing it or not getting it quick enough, but thankfully I did, the spider is squashed and all is well.

Poor Corey was shaking like a leaf, I had to stand there and hug him for a while until his nerves calmed down.  Needless to say I completed the taking the rubbish out task myself.

All was well after that until bed time.  As soon as Corey was alone in his room he started thinking about the spider and got really scared.  He was scared that he would get bitten by spiders.  Poor boy, he didn’t want to be alone and didn’t want to sleep in his bed.  I told him he could sleep in my bed with Dad but he still wouldn’t do that until Dad actually went to bed too as he just didn’t want to be alone.

He has finally gone to bed with Dad now and I am left up and I guess I will be sleeping in his bed tonight.  Fingers crossed he won’t have spider nightmares.

Poor little boy, and he drove me absolutely crazy all day today, but as angry as he gets me I still feel sorry for him when something like this happens.

I’m off to my lonely bed now.
Goodnight

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