This place is totally trashed. The kids’ crap is everywhere. There are papers and clothes all over the place. And we have ants. I can’t get any help here. My kids wallow, they just don’t care. Now the cats are starting to stick to the kitchen floor. We are all busy: my husband, doing his first year of teaching: me, teaching English on several different levels. The kids are in honors and AP classes, plus one plays the violin – lots of lessons and practices and auditions – and the other does tae kwondo – lots of lessons and practices and tournaments. Everybody is performing their chosen whatevers at a high level. And yet we have ANTS.