TruMama

This is so weird, but for some reason when you become a mom, you get super powers.  I’m serious.  You can do things you never could before.  It happens and then you think, Oh my gosh…I can’t believe myself.  Let me give you an example.

I’m terrified of spiders.  Completely terrified.  I can hardly look at a book with photographs of spiders in it.  I had one, a teeny-tiny one, in my classroom one day and ran across the hall to have another teacher come over and kill it.  I call my husband from whatever he is doing to kill a spider and if he can’t come, I throw a bowl over it until he can get there.  I can’t kill a spider.  Are you crazy?  It might attack me or something.  It might jump on me and never let go.

Well, tonight as I walked to the bedroom to feed Tru…I saw one right along the doorway.  This thing was huge and I’m not exaggerating.  It looked like an art installation hanging on the wall.  I froze.  I looked around.  I uttered some strange noises that made Tru look at me funny.  I started some weird little two-step in the hallway trying to figure out what to do.  I ran to my phone and texted Grant.  Ran back to make sure the spider was still there.  Ran back to the phone and saw no response.  Called Grant and explained the emergency, which he didn’t get at all.  So there I was – alone, holding Tru in one arm, a bottle in the other and a big ass spider in my hallway.  My mind raced.  I walked back down the hall and it was moving.  MOVING!!  That’s it.  I knew what I must do.  I grabbed the biggest shoe Grant has, plopped Tru in his crib, flung my cape over my shoulder and off I went.  My palms were sweating, but my mind was steady.  Steady on my target.  Something came over me.  I felt a strength building inside I’ve never felt before.  I had to kill this spider because all I could envision was it crawling on Tru while he slept and that won’t happen.  I bit down on my lip, pulled back, and splat.  Then I went back to my baby waiting in his crib and all is peaceful once again.  (WARNING: photo of spider below)