What has 6 legs, lays eggs, and feeds on your scalp?
Ding ding ding ding! LICE!
Holy crap. What a week. I have cried, laughed, cried and cried some more. Who knew persistant little bugs could drive a woman to tears? Z came home from school with a full head of lice 10 days ago and it has been a circus ever since. After getting a short sheet of paper from his teacher on what to do at home to treat it, I went to the internet to dig up some info. Did you know there is terribly conflicting information all over the internet on lice?
Needless to say, they reinfested and this time, they didn't stop with Z. They laid their precious eggs on G and me, giving us a case of the creepy crawlies. Yikes. Should've vacummed more.
We are now all treated and moving into the 4th day after the reinfestation. The kids and I walk around the house in shower caps in the hopes that if they're still in the couches or the carpet, they won't find their way on to our heads.
I had to bag up all of my knitting. I've already got knitting withdrawal, and I've got at least two days to go!
There is something to laugh at in all of this. Last night we were all sitting around the dinner table eating with our shower caps on when G started telling us a story. G loves to tell all sorts of stories and he makes them up as he goes along, resulting in hilarious peeks into mind. He starts off with a story about how when he was a baby, he and his sister were playing, and he accidentally stuck his finger in her ear, and when he pulled it out, he sniffed it like this, and he lifts his finger to his nose, makes the goofiest face ever, and take a long hard sniff. Gross. I start laughing so hard that I cry. You had to be there, and it was one of those moments that made me wish I had my camera turned on. He doesn't even have a sister.
