Little Miss Muffett

This morning the kids seemed to be on "extra go slow mode". I know it's Friday and all that but today we needed "Action stations " in the house and it wasn't very forthcoming.

The sitting room looked like Beruit - covered in Sam's latest Lego creations and Wii equipment. Georgina decided that she would lay out her whole school uniform in a creative pattern on the carpet instead of wearing it and they had kids TV blaring in the back ground in all the chaos with no sense of urgency.

I was rushing around more than normal as I had to go to a meeting at work and in between shouting " Sam brush your hair , Georgie teeth , guinea pigs need feeding ,pick those up , where's your homework - Bla Bla Bla " I had undergone an earlier experience a kin to something out of the Jungle programme " I'm a celebrity get me out of here !!"

To explain what I'm going on about - I had just had a shower, got dried and was in the process of brushing my teeth,when out of the corner of my eye I saw something.
Whilst still brushing and having a mouth full of white foam, I looked up and directly above me on the ceiling was the biggest spider I had ever seen in my life.

It was a massive hairy thing with a big body and legs that seemed to double back on themselves. It was almost as big as a tea plate ! ( well nearly!). Oh my God I thought where the hell did that come from - it was like something from a film set. The type of arrachnid that would cocoon you up and eat you alive!.

Just as I bent over to rinse out my mouth I felt something touch my head.I knew exactly what it was and let out a "Colgate yell" and shuddered.There sitting on the corner of the sink and staring into my eye was the beast.

Now I don't like killing things but this was really horrible. If Malc had been at home it would have been a definite S.O.S moment ( "Squash on Sight !"). Mum has always said the old saying - "If you want to live and thrive let a spider run alive ".

Stuff that was my first thought!! However, I left the spider sitting on the sink , resisted the urge to SOS or wash him down the plug hole - instead I left the door open to the bathroom hoping that it would disappear. When I checked later on - he was sitting behind the loo and now I can't find it at all.

I managed to get the kids to school ( Sam still not having brushed his hair) and made my way to work. After a 4 hour stint I made my way home to pick up the kids from school back into the chaos which had not changed.

Tonight I am going to write one of my lists, threaten the kids with the "Bin bag" if they do not tidy their rooms and restore some sort of order back into the house - that is if I survive the night and don't wake up encased in a web !!