Day 10

Day 10 - Something Your Afraid Of

This one is easy.

Hornets, Bees, and Wasps!!

I HATE them! Just looking at this picture makes me shudder (who is this lunatic holding this gigantic hornet?) I promise even for $5000, I would never do that!!

If I see a bee I run! Let me tell you my scariest bee story. It might make you question whether I should be a mom or not.

A couple summers ago, we were at my moms. The kids all wanted to jump on the hay bales, so I went out there with them. There were a few wasps swarming around, but I did my best to run away from them. Then Chase started yelling for me - not hysterical, just nice and calmly. He was probably 6 or 7. So I went to see what the problem was, and there was one of those creepy wasps crawling on his shirt. There was no way in the world that I was going to swat it away, for fear that it would attack me! So, from a distance, I told him to hold still, and it would fly away. But it didn't, it just kept crawling around his shirt. I promise I was freaking out inside, but I was acting really calm. Then that wasp did the unthinkable, it crawled down the neck of his shirt!!!!

I promise, I had no idea what I should do! Again, from a distance, I told him to keep holding still, and to pull his shirt away from his stomach, and told him that it would fly out. Of course I didn't believer that for a second, and I was expecting him to start screaming any second with a wasp bite! But that wasp did neither! It was just happy as can be crawling around in his shirt!!

I don't remember how we did it, or how I worked up the nerve, but we finally were able to kill it!

I can honestly say, that at that moment, I would rather him get stung then get close enough to that wasp to kill it! Does that make me a terrible mom? Probably. But, I really don't like them, so I think its OK.