This Week in Pictures

Lydia got silly.

Kevin's mom has been going through games at her house, and has been gifting us with some that suit our family.  The lower picture is Life.  The kids are enjoying it.

Lydia put Rose's hair up in ponytails.  Tell me that's not cute!

This picture does not do the rainbow justice but yeah, we had a crazy day of rain and a rainbow at the end.

Neat clouds.

Kevin has been out of town on a business trip, and I'm sick with a cold.  So I hauled a mattress and a slide into our main room and let the little ones slide and bounce around.  I do what works.

Last night, Angela told me a spider was in the microwave. I cautiously opened the microwave and looked around and no, there was no spider.  Later, I glanced at the microwave and sure enough, a BIG spider was crawling along the front plastic panel.  And then I realized it had somehow made its way between the front plastic panel and the mesh screen a half inch back from that panel. So it is stuck. There is no way for me to get to it, and it would have to crawl through a small hole to get out.  It obviously used the small hole to get IN, but spiders are stupid and I doubt it can find its way out.

There is no obvious reason why we can't use the microwave with a spider trapped where it is, but I have to admit the spider freaked me out.  I want it out.  Or dead.  Or something.

But as I said, Kevin is gone on a business trip.  And I don't do trapped living creatures unless they are my children.  Kevin takes care of spiders and raccoons in traps and skunks in the pool and possums in the dryer.  We've experienced all those living beings during our marriage and as Kevin said on the phone, if he can handle a (possibly?) dead possum in the innards of our dryer, he can handle a spider.

He gets home tonight, and at some point he'll need to cope with the spider.

Thankfully, we have a spare microwave. I brought it up from the basement and we are using it until the Spider Incident of 2016 can be resolved.