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How the heck did this happen?

Okay so we got back from the boat and trying to get ready for church tonight, and the boys wanna hop in the hot tub. Cap, who sliced his toe just before we got back to the mooring an hour earlier, is still trying to stop the bleeding, and debating whether or not he needs to get it stitched. I'm unpacking the cooler and trying to figure out how to get the smell of squid outta one of them (not eating squid of course, fishing squid - as in bait) and the dog, as usual, is comatose after 3 days of boat, sun and beach. We decide to let them take a quick a dip - in lieu of baths (yeah, we're lazy that way sometimes!) and Cap removes the cover off it and they hop in. JR is outside watching them with one eye, while trying to keep himself from hemorrhaging via his severed baby toe with the other. Two minutes later one child is scramming and we both run over to find out who & what, only to learn JR got stung by a bee while in the tub. We look over the rail and see dozens (and I mean dozens) of 'em swarming all around. We tell Drew to get outta the tub, which he does, and I take him, and the screaming JR inside to check out where he got stung. While I do, Cap comes in and announces that HE got stung, on the nose, while trying to put the cover back on the tub. So now I have a crying JR holding his thumb, a husband who is bleeding profusely from his toe, with a bee sting on his nose, and a dog who is running in circles because of the confusion. I decide to throw both boys into the tub to get the hot tub chemicals off them figuring it will call down JR. While I'm getting them into the tub, Drew announces very matter- of-factly that he got stung.

Just as I begin to go into my best adult "we shouldn't tell stories" explanation, he tells me "Really Mimi, I did" and points to his eyelid, and the bright red spot where the bee stung him!

Yep, all three of them got stung. One acted like it was no big deal, another cried for 10 minutes, and the third couldn't decide what to tend to first, his toe or his nose...

As for me, I just wanted to wake up form this nightmare...

Turns out there was a giant hive under the hot tub, which Cap managed to decimate after he stopped the toe from bleeding and tended to his nose.

Gotta say that was more fun than I needed in one short evening!