Well I found out that the girls have not been very good housekeepers this week. I have guests coming to spend a few days and I had planned on putting them up in the girls’ old rooms. I discovered that they probably hadn’t been dusted since the last high school graduation, and that anyone in those rooms would likely suffer from a Vitamin D deficiency because the sun can’t come through the heavy coating of grime on the windows.
I cleaned and cleaned and now it probably looks like high school kids actually did clean up there. Of course the day before our guests are scheduled to arrive, a colony of ants decided to move into the guest bathroom. As I entered and wondered what that moving and bubbling mass of black was on the window sill, I looked to to see what was crunching under my feet. Hopefully the ant treatment will kick in before my guests do.
My son cleaned his room too. I can now see 50% of the floor which is more than I have seen in months. Good thing the ants hadn’t decided to move into his room. It would be some time before anyone would have been able to notice.
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“Ants and savages put strangers to death.” ~ Bertrand Russell
5 responses so far ↓
1 Beth (A Mom's Life) // Jul 21, 2009 at 9:47 am
Oh, how I despise ants! We get them when we have a lot of rain and it takes a week to kill them all.
Perhaps if the ants had been in your son’s room they could have toted the items from his floor back to their original spots….they say those ants are pretty strong so perhaps their strength could be harnesed for good instead of evil…
2 suburbancorrespondent // Jul 21, 2009 at 1:04 pm
TERRO! It works!
3 Children's Bedroom Furniture // Jul 22, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Boy ants are the worst. We filled up a pinata for our 4 yrd old daughter’s birthday party the night before (a few months back) and when we awoke the next morning, it was filled those nasty little things!!! A trail in and a trail out!!!
What a pain in the A__s!
4 angelawd // Jul 29, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Uuuugghh, I hate ant infestations! It makes me feel tickly all over. But at least you have a mom-approved clean house, now. Hope your guests appreciate it.
5 Daycare Chandler AZ // Jul 30, 2009 at 9:38 am
I cannot believe your vacuum cleaner started on fire! That’s crazy!
<3 Lindsay