I'm a badass! Well, in the eyes of my 2-year-olds I am. I think I'm a badass. I don't like creepy-crawlies. This includes reptiles, insects, arachnids, and rodents. We had waterday today. My toddlers played in the sprinkler. We have 8 little ankle-biters running through this water, and the other teacher screams "AAAAAAAAHHHHH!". So I sat the baby I was holding down and ran over. "SNAAAAAAKE!". This bright-orange foot-long snake was wriggling around by my babies' feet. Jackie picked up the sprinkler system and i grabbed a plastic shovel and tried to kill the thing. No luck. So I tried to scoop it up in the shovel, and it wriggled too much. So I picked the sucker up by the tail and ran as fast as I could out the gate and down the driveway and threw it with all my might. After I got back to the kids and realized that I'd just picked up a snake that could possibly have bitten me, I thought I was gonna pass out. LOL. Guess ya do what ya gotta do. Back to work for more baby-watching and hopefully no more snake-ass-kicking. More later!