Last Night.

Last night the baby cried. What's new? She cried. I pretended to imagine it was only temporary, but in the end my motherly instincts couldn't bear it. I had to do something. Up I went. First things first though. I had to go potty. It was 3:00 possibly 4:00 in the morning after all. In my sleep deprived state, (a state that never ceases or ceases to amaze me) I didn't put on my glasses. Once seated, (I won't bore you with the details, I'm sure you know how this part works) I glanced down just in time to see something scurry over my toes. Needless to say in my sleepy and blinded state, I freaked out! I squinted best I could, and there it was....a scorpion!! And not a teeny tiny one! Large and in charge! And what fast little bugger too. Of course I did what any self respecting woman in my position would do.....wake up the man to dispose of the little creature. Although killing is not condoned in my household, I wanted to torture the thing and make a spectacle of him so any future intruders might take heed. So the groggy and not so happy Daddy came to my rescue. What a man. When I pointed out that he in fact was the same identical color as our tile and ran behind the toilet, Nick was not so pleased. Who wants to crawl, half asleep, behind a toilet to find a deadly animal anyway? Not me. Obviously. Out the little dude ran......only for Nick to very quietly (and for the circumstances very sweetly) explain that he was indeed a lizard. Not the notoriously dangerous scorpion I am always dreading. Just a cute little baby lizard. In my defense, I was blind, and he was the same color as any other scorpion I've ever had the pleasure of laying my eyeballs on. Plus he had little stripes on his tail that I mistakenly identified as a stinger. Sounds ridiculous now. But I still don't believe it was a lizard. Even knowing that we watch them roaming our backyard daily. I say he's a shape-shifter.

P.S. I did eventually make it into the girls room to do my motherly duties. Explaining to Paige what took me so long, and again begging Lillie to "please, please, please, sleep!" It'll happen.

Someday.....