Ants and Air Freshner

I don't know about you, but this summer... WE HAVE ANTS!

Whenever the kids see a massive pile of ants devouring a piece of food outside, they freak out and come running into the house to ask for some ant spray, which I have to reply," Sorry guys, we don't have any ant spray.

After the 20th time of the kids wanting to take care of our little ant problem and asking me for "Ant Spray" I naively explained to our kids that when ants invade the home or driveway to attack the popcorn, popsicle sticks, or other dropped crumbs of food, we could simply spray them with anything to kill them. I told them water, Lysol, or any other poisonous aerosols, like air freshener, windex or even hairspray would do the trick. I didn't realize that this would start an all summer long obsession with spotting ants and making it their mission to DESTROY them at all costs.

It took a while for Dan to realize why it was constantly smelling like orange air freshener when he came home from work. Let me rephrase...not just smell like it.......but choke you out with it kind of smell. But once he discovered that the kids had burned through a couple of canisters of their favorite "ANT KILLER" called Pure Citrus Air Freshener, it all clicked.

Well, the fun part of the story starts when Dan wakes up one morning and moseys out to the kitchen to make breakfast for the kids. Upon opening the fridge and getting a huge whiff of the ever so familiar spray, our oldest Alaina blurts out.

"Hey Dad, don't worry about anything, we fixed the ant problem for good. Hailey sprayed all the food in the fridge with the ANT KILLER (orange spray) since the ants only look for food. This way no matter where the food drops in the house, they will stay away."

That's right folks.........Hailey, our little creative genius, sprayed the eggs, the vegetables, the butter, the condiments, the EVERYTHING in that fridge to insure that we had no more ant problems.

Kudos to the kid that thinks outside the box.

Are we supposed to get mad at them for being so proactive and thinking so creatively? We just laughed, and then taught them the downside to their decision. :) Guess we should have clarified the Ant Killing rules a little better when we introduced the concept to them in the first place.

Costco, here we come :)