Sleepless Nights...

I may have a few sleepless nights in the coming days/weeks. You see, on Saturday I was awakened by not Rebecca, not Jesse, not Mike, and not even an alarm clock, but rather by a cockroach crawling across my face. At first I thought it was just a piece of my hair tickling my face. Then I realized it was moving. I have never gotten out of bed that fast. I flicked it off and jumped up at the same time. I grabbed a tissue and squished it good. It happened to be an adult female, carrying an egg capsule. Both the roach and the eggs got flushed down the toilet. Isn't that gross? I then went on to kill two more within the next 5 minutes. Last night I didn't sleep well. I felt like there were bugs crawling all over me. I lifted my head off my pillow many times during the night just to check. I even contemplated sleeping with netting over my head and pillow. In the end I decided that if I was willing to let the bugs possibly crawl on Jesse (we have seen them in his room too) and Rebecca (who currently sleeps right beside me), then I should be willing to let them possibly crawl on me. They are just bugs, right? It still creeps me out though. The pest control people were supposed to come by our apartment last week, but decided they were only going to treat half the complex and didn't come to our apartment. And they won't be back until the 15th. That means it will have been over a month since their last visit. We have had cockroaches since we came back in August. Seriously, they should have been able to take care of them by now. It can't be sanitary!! Anyway, I keep telling myself it was just a fluke that a roach happened to find its way to my pillow and that if it's the first time it's happened in a month and a half, chances are it won't happen again. But anyone out there who prays, please please please pray that the bugs will go away very soon and not come back!

And here's a picture of the female german roach carrying her eggs (just in case you were wondering what I woke up to...)