I Has a Dilemma

[jadedmusings]

So we ordered some Scholastic books for the kiddo through the school and they arrived today, much to his excitement. (NOT the dilemma.)

One of the things we ordered was a three-book collection of E.B. White novels. The dilemma is that I remember reading Charlotte's Web in second grade (same age as the kiddo) and I thought I might read it to him.

How am I ever going to get through it without bawling at the end and possibly freaking the kiddo out?

(Totally not a serious post.)

The other two books in that collection are The Trumpet of the Swan and Stuart Little.

On the plus side, I managed to convince him to get Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar, a book I read repeatedly as a child. I predict much giggling.

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[nagaina]

::brightly:: I could send you pictures of the terrifyingly huge spider currently making an extremely beautiful web on our front porch.

....Seriously, the thing is gigantic and the approximate color of a freshly boiled crab. And it caught TWO giant bugs in its web yesterday.

[jadedmusings]

You...can keep that to yourself. I don't think the boyfriend would be happy to come home to see me gibbering at the screen and whimpering about spiders. (Seriously, I can't handle spiders.)

[nagaina]

::sob::

My sons love spiders. Love them. I am a total arachnophobe. ;_;

[jadedmusings]

I'm fortunate the kiddo isn't too keen on bugs in general, though I've tried to assure him not to be too frightened. Yet, I haven't been able to help it when it comes to spiders. He did kill a (dying) wasp that was in our kitchen the other night with his shoe. It was kind of cute.