Oh, Ew, Yuck!

As JoAnn would say "Oh, Ew, Yuck!" I can't say that enough right now because I keep thinking about the nest of cockroaches we found today. Where? In an out of the way closet that never gets used, in the hallway right outside of the door to our condo, or maybe even somewhere in the bathroom we never use. No, of course not. Instead they were alive and well right inside of the drawers at the bottom of JoAnn's bookshelf, just feet from where she sleeps.

We had decided that we wanted to go through all of our stuff especially stuff we hardly if ever use and get rid of anything we aren't going to move with us. Well, Daniel was the one who had taken on the challenge of JoAnn's room and when he opened one of the drawers he saw a bunch of little dark things scatter. There were so many roaches I wasn't even sure where to begin killing them all. Thankfully most of them stayed in the drawer so Daniel put the drawer in the bathroom and took out everything while Ate Ida started swatting away with a shoe. Daniel also returned to the bookshelf to find the mother and a few more of her offspring and he was able to kill them. Then he had the task of going through the stuff from the drawers and deciding what was able to be cleared of all cockroach poop and what needed to be thrown away while Ate Ida cleaned it up. Unfortunately, one of the things I had kept in the drawers was all of our pictures. The fortunate part was that they were in the drawer that wasn't as bad and most of them were fine. It was not what I was expecting to find during our spring cleaning, but I am very thankful I had help today and didn't actually have to do anything other than keep JoAnn out of the room while they were killing the bugs.

After the whole cockroach problem was solved it was time for JoAnn's nap, which I had a hard time wanting to put her down even though I kept telling myself that there were less bugs now than there were 30 minutes before and I would have been totally fine putting her down before. I guess it just proves ignorance is bliss.