you know when you wake up one day and realized you are overwhelmed and really have a hard day at work, know you have a million things you have to do at home, this is JUST what you want to hear:
"oh check your daughter for lice because my daughter had some eggs" , from the mom of the kids your daughter played with the day before.
Just what I felt like doing tonight.
- picking up Maelie, checking her hair with the daycare lady, we THINK we found one egg
- rush to shoppers to buy a lice treatment
- come home, give Maelie a shower and wash her hair first with regular soap
- strip every piece of bedding, towel, clothes
- let chin 1 & 2 out
- put away all 352 stuffed animals in a black garbage bag
- put away all 74 blankies in a black garbage bag
- put away 2 garbage bag sized pillows in a garbage bag
- dry her hair
- make supper
- start load 1 of laundry
- switch the chins. let chin # 3 & 4 out
- sit down and go through her hair with a comb
- CUT the hair (yes i admit, the complaining was just too horrendous - Mama = no patience)
- find something i think was one egg
- give Maelie the treatment
- hear whining and more whining
- give snack
- take another shower to get rid of treatment
- make beds
- find replacement blankies
- read story
- put Maelie to bed
- post on blog
- go downstairs and do laundry load #2
- switch chins , take out #5
- hopefully do the dishes
- hopefully do load of laundry #3
All this has happened since 4:30, and it is only 8:00.
Life has a way of showing you who's in control......
A creative and slightly crazy mama keeping a journal of our day to day lives. Enjoy!
3 comments:
OH.MY.GAWD. Poor Jen & Maelie ! That's horrible. It's as bad as treating your house for pet ticks. i so understand what you're going through, & i only hope all of this will be worth it !
By the way, how do kids ever get lice in the first place ? (Not the one who gets it from someone else, but that first kid who got it ...)
funny you ask because i read about it a bit and apparently this have been forever! even in ancient egypt and stuff!
so i have no idea how it all began...
the good thing is, lice cannot live on animals. so at least you dont have to start treating all your pets when this happend (can you say RELIEF?) hehehehe
i am glad its *hopefully* over....
jennP
Yes this sounds just like my life! Things just hit you out of nowhere and all the focus has to be on that "one" thing which involves 100 tasks created by that one thing! sounds like you have more patience than you think!
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