Ants and painting

We have been overcome by ants again.  Ack!  We have spent most of the last three days killing ants, then mopping to make sure we get up all the ant spray, and trying to figure out where they were coming from and where they were going too.

The picture above I took and posted on Facebook, just because I thought Jessica was so cute.  My friends all immediately thought she was showing of her artwork.  Artwork that I have been considering painting over this week.  I have been thinking hard about doing it everyday this week...but always decide there is something better to do.

So this morning Jessica started to do her new favorite activity which consists of climbing from the big rocking recliner in the living room onto the counter and then jumping back onto the recliner, more like diving, head first.  So I decided to rearrange the living room a little bit.  While moving furniture I saw them.  ANTS!  Not a million, as we had already cleaned up the million yesterday, but a few dozen, coming in a crack in the caulking between the floor and baseboard and munching on three or four little pieces of food.  Food that our maids should have seen and swept up on Monday, before all of our ant problems started.  But that is another story.

So I then proceed to spray and kill the ants, wipe it all up, and get the mop to mop the floor.  Then I proceeded to finish rearranging the furniture, only to discover that the wall behind the chair was filthy.  While I was cleaning it I decided it would really be much easier to paint over the pencil and pen, then it was to get it off.

This way of thinking is my norm.  I would rather paint the walls then clean it.  But I never stick with just one wall.  I end up doing several walls.  I did the two pieces of wall leading into the breakfast nook that were really dirty, the wall by the door leading outside, the wall behind that chair, the wall that holds up our main kitchen counter, and three walls that had blue marker all over them.  The good news is my walls now look clean.  There is only a small amount of blue marker you can still see peeking out.  Jessica also can not jump from the chair to the counter and back again.  And hopefully I have gotten rid of the ants.

With any luck the teachers found Isaac, who thought he was "helping", cute when he showed up to school today with paint on his clothes.