Sitting on a tuffet at Thanksgiving Dinner

We tried. Honestly we did. We couldn't paint the walls with crayons and marker all over them. We couldn't replace our beat up furniture with new. But we did clean our house and prepare an awesome feast.

We had nine (my side only) so we put the fold out table in the "play" room. It was in the Harry Potter closet. About an hour before eating, we put the plastic table cloth on that I had bought and the centerpiece that I had made.

As Sara and Mom arrived, things started hopping. I was doing last minute mashing etc, and was telling Sara and Matt to do some things like set the table, etc.

I heard Sara scream. That usually means a spider. she came out saying there was one on the table. How in the world can that be? I just took the table cloth out of the package! We had scrubbed the table earlier in the day. Ah ha! Maybe in the pinecones in the center piece.

Actually, I am getting ahead of myself. We did n't start brainstorming until she found the second spider. We removed the centerpiece.

She made Matthew bring the third one out so I wouldn't slug her. They were extremely tiny.

Needless to say, when she made Matt crawl under the table, there was a nest. Are you kidding me???? People had plates made and were sitting down! So we grinned and beared it and kept killing.

only me.