Yes, it is.

Yes, it's a black widow.

Yes, that's my baseboard (it's behind the fridge...cut me some slack, I wasn't about to clean it before taking the picture).

Yes, it is "the last straw" and we WILL be having our house sprayed today...inside AND out.

We've had a TON of spiders this year...other bugs too.

Last week, when the boys were supposed to be going to sleep, Dillon came into the livingroom and asked, "Mom, do spidows hunt at night?"

I answered, "No, spiders don't hunt at night." (What was I supposed to say? I needed him to go to sleep)

He went back to his room and told "his boys", and I heard them saying "Yes they do! It's in our spider book. Wolf spiders hunt at night." (curse the day I bought the spider book)

Then Dillon came back. "Mom, awe dwown-up's always wight?"

I said, "Yes, buddy. Grown-up's are always right."

And he finally went to bed.

The next night, Dillon came running out of his room saying, "Mom, you awe doe-ing to fweat-out if you woot at my ceiwing." (translation: you are going to freak out if you look at my ceiling...where does he learn this stuff??) "Thewe is a spidow on it."

I decided to use this to my advantage, by telling him that spiders like messy rooms, so if he didn't like it there, he needed to keep his room clean. (like that would've stopped them...)

Instead, he's been sleeping on the floor in OUR bedroom for the past three nights...next to the giant laundry pile...that's probably home to a couple of spiders.