The nightmere begins...

O.k, so I am officially a slacker, not much I can do about it....I have many blogs in my head yet I lack the motivation to site down and do them. I hate to type..I know shocker, bet you all can't see that seeing how my grammar and spelling are top notch. But right now this is not going to be the focus...right now the focus is going to be on my cleavage.. So here is how the story goes.

About a month ago now my worst fears came true, I was doing my daughters hair for school and I noticed a bunch of white things in her hair...Thinking to myself that I should go and find the dry patch she must have on her head so that I could get some stuff on it...While in my search I found a little bug, thinking I have found bugs in my kids hair before but I do not recognise this bug...Then I searched a little more and it didn't take long before another one was found. At this point I called my other daughter over and started to go through her hair as well...yep you guessed it...a bug or 2 or 10. ARRGGGHHHHHH LICE!!!! Are you serious!!!??? I then googled the images of them and yep, there they were...My heart sank and a little black cloud started to make its way right above my head. I checked every ones head after that just to find out that 8 out if 12 of us all had lice, including me!

I then went to the pharmacy to get shampoo, came home and shampooed..then started to pick. I went outside and sat them one by one on the porch just to find the bugs did not die!! SO I then went and decided that I was not messing around, I had a friend who fought it and she used Vaseline so I took out that bottle and started to gob and gob all our hair with Vaseline then put shower caps on our heads till the next day. In the morning they were dead..tiny tiny ones I would never have seen....So glad I used the Vaseline. I then googled all the home remedies I could find and did all that I could do.

So that morning we washed and washed the Vaseline out then put peanut butter in our hair for few hours and then washed that out, it was suppose to help take the Vaseline out..which it did. The I took the kids out and picked and picked one by one...Now for those of you who know my hair and my children's hair...this was a nightmare we have more hair in just my little family to start our own wig shop!! Baileys hair which is thicker then thick alone took 3 hours to pick through the first day...then 2 every day after that. I picked from 8:30 am till 6pm outside, non stop for 5 days. then after supper Dina would pick through my hair.

My girls were sooo up set about the whole thing so I would try soo hard to make them laugh and find humor in the situation, I would tell them that they are just bugs and we will get them gone and we just have to so our best, work hard, and try to make our minds strong so we don't cry. That we will get through it and its not big deal so not to worry. It worked, but at night when the kids went to bed, the black cloud would hang over my head, I hated that feeling. I am pretty sure I have never felt like that before in my life and it was awful!!! I felt like I had no control and that it was never going to go away and we would never be normal again.

All this while Mitch was in Europe, for the record things like this always happen when he is gone so I get to deal with it on my own.

But I did it, I was a machine, I had to get it gone!! So I did not stop till Ihad it gone...SO for a week, I was washing, freezing, boiling, bagging all the stuffies, vacuuming 3 times a day..washing bedding, pillows, vacuuming mattresses, washing towels after every use, picking, changing clothes 4 times a day. I then confined all the kids to one bed so when they woke up I could rip off the bedding and vacuum one mattress. Every night after I picked hair I would take a straightener to it because frankly those things are hot and I could burn those little eggs, I then gooped hair with gel and shaving cream pulled it up and that was that for the day...Just to start again tomorrow. It was the craziest 2 weeks of my life and I hope I never have to do that again!!! IT was horrid, and I am the type of person who when there is something to get done, just do it, do what you got to do and get it done no matter what...SO I went and went for a week straight...I think I drove Dina a little crazy..My OCD took over a little, but I think it was helpful in this situation...My friend who's daughter had lice too, fought hers for 2 months..I was not going to play that game!! SO after the 7 days I went and got some Mayo, which a few had told me that it worked..so day 7,8,9,10 we gobbed our heads and put bags on them and went to bed....It was the barfiest thing I have ever done and was pretty much gagging the whole time..IF I ever smell Mayo again I just may puke. But after day 14 I went to the pharmacy and asked for shampoo that actually worked, and I got some and did a final shampoo on everyone...total lice shampoo cost..$150.00.

Anyway, its over now and thank goodness....so here are some pictures of what we call "the dark lice days" enjoy the album.

This was me trying to make the situation funny for my girls...and give my husband a little somthin somthin when I sent him the picks when he was in Europe for 3 weeks with out me..but not really on purpose, he just lucked out it all....So you get a little "peak" (no pun intended) at the girls....If you look closely you can see madi and Dina in the back ground with their caps as well.

Me and Dina one night with mayo in our hair and laughing at the whole situation..
This is me telling her, her head really stinks..
hmmm....???
This is us washing the crap out of our hair....Caution, object(s) in picture may seem larger then they really appear ( mostly my bum) And as you can see our house work was a little neglected for a few days...I was outside picking hair...dishes came last people.
Madi all gooped up.
Showing off a little peanut butter in the hair....makes it nice and soft.
Dina looking lovely. She kinda of looks like a "who" here, she should look out for the Grinch.
Brett with his mayo and shaving cream.
The picking experience was soooo relaxing madi fell asleep...Please ignore the undies..I am slightly inappropriate at times.
I took pity on her and layed her down. I am a nice Aunty.
This is Coltons head...he was super excited for the whole experience.
O.k..here comes the monstrous laundry....Pillows, and blankets, and sheets..oh my!
Macey had to be in every picture, and bathing suits were worn by all allll week long. Pile of blankets by the piano..These ones are clean and ready for bagging..
This is baileys clothes from her dresser... I took out all the clothes and washed them and vacuumed out dressers too.
Just a peek into the laundry room.
Another view.
And yet another....I can hardly look at without feeling completely exhausted.
So there you have, the week from you know where!!! we survived, we conquered.. now if you ever get it, you have a pro here to help you along the way......But we did not come out un scarred, we still a month later when our children are on our laps go through their hair...I will never be then same, constant paranoia!..Oh well, life goes on and we just keep on going with smiles and giggles, because this is going to be one day be "mom remember when we had lice"? then we will all laugh...or not.