Okay, so I have a confession to make. Please don't judge me. One of the reasons that I absolutely love Colorado is that we just don't have very many bugs. I love that! I hated growing up worrying about where the spider would be lurking...under the bed, under the couch, in the dark laundry room. Anyway, I have dealt with bugs enough in my life to know that I don't like them. We never had bugs in our house except the occasional spider but who doesn't get that. Anyway, about 4 weeks ago, Jaxon, who sleeps on the bottom bunk, woke up with spots all over his arms, ankles, and face. I took him to sacrament but decided it would be best to bring him home in case he had something that was contagious. The next morning there were more spots. I had heard of one of my preschoolers having the chicken pox and thought right away that was what Jaxon had. So I called the doctor and took him in. She looked at his spots and told me that he was getting bitten by bugs. She gave me a prescription and off I went. I kept wondering where he would be getting into bugs. I had not seen any bugs in our house except the occasional ant, that we would spray around the house for. Could he have gotten into a nest of bugs or fire ants outside in the backyard? So I just kept giving him the medicine and the red spots would get smaller but never went away completely. TC started getting spots on his arms at this point. When we went to Steve's parents house for the weekend all the spots went away. When we got back home, the following day, Jaxon had these red spots again. So I examined his bed and saw little spots of blood on his sheets. I took a closer look at the baseboard and saw, what I thought were chiggers. Very tiny bugs crawling along the baseboard. Steve and I started looking through the entire bunk bed. You know the ones with the attached chest of drawers and a nice desk on the other end. Yeah, the entire bunk bed was infested with bedbugs. I thought bedbugs was just something made up. I would always tell my kids, "Goodnight and don't let the bedbugs bite." GROSS! They actually did! So we sprayed the bunk bed down with a bug spray that was killing them on contact. The deeper into the bed we got, we realized that these bugs were coming out of cracks that were glued. The bed was made up of over 300 pieces of wood. How in the world would I ever get rid of all of them. Not only were they crawling all over it by now, but when we were unscrewing the bed, we could see tiny eggs everywhere. At this point we felt the best thing we could do would be to take the whole bunk bed to the dump. Yes, we threw away a $700.00 bunk bed, desk, chest, and shelves, along with 2 mattresses. We have since bombed the house to make sure there are no more friendly critters here. After this nightmare, I have come to realize a few things. #1 - There is always someone who has it worse than you do. I so wanted to just die, because I hate bugs that much. #2 - I came to appreciate the scripture in 3 Nephi 13:20. "But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither bedbug (J/K it really says moth) nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal." I just kept thinking of how nice that bed was but I had to throw it away. We still do not know where in the heck we would have gotten bedbugs but apparently they are growing in number in the United States again, so beware. I will be itching for an entire month now because I can't stand the thought of what I just endured. We are bug free as far as I can see as I get down on my hands and knees everyday to check with flashlight in hand, for any signs of these creatures of the night.
