Creepy crawlies- UGHHH!

We are battling the head lice.
Apparently it is going around our church and community.

We missed church because of it last Sunday. We treated it and thought we were in the clear. But the more I heard, the more advice I got from nurses and the more that I read online, I began to realize that we were not done with it just yet.

After just 2 days, I found a live one. From what I understand, the lice are resistant to the over-the-counter products.

So after 3 days of no sleep, 82 loads of laundry and vacuuming until I want the vaccum to suck me up and take me away, I called the doctor. I am desperate.

The Dr called in a prescription today for us to get rid of the lice. I got a $120 2oz bottle of lotion that supposedly will knock it out.

I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I do not know what I would do if I was a working mom because the cleaning in itself is a full-time job!


So- my advice. Don't let anyone tell you that you are safe to go out and about with the lice once you did the first treatment! If we had, we could have given it to friends, family, complete strangers!

Check your kids/husbands/self every single day. I missed 2 days of checking and then that is when we found them. It is going around the church/daycare and you know that they are not washing/vacuuming/cleaning every single day.

Not to scare you, but I promise you that this is not something to mess around with. It is like having fleas or termites, only it is on your head and you can not kill it with one spray of pesticide. It takes an average of one hour a day for me to go through all of GBK's hair just to make sure that I didn't miss an egg. (Because the over-the-counter shampoo does not kill the egg- so if you miss one egg, you are welcoming a whole new colony.) I found 6+ eggs last night that I had missed before. So we are staying home.

This is worse than the flu, an ear infection, and a paper cut all put together.

Madi and I are in a wedding Saturday- the festivities begin Friday afternoon!

Pray for me. I am delirious.

Thank you Disney!

Our big Christmas surprise for Princess GBK was a trip to Disney. Yes, we each got a 6 Day Pass and did it up right. We had the best time. We left Christmas Day and came home New Year's Day.

We went to the 4 major parks and saw and did as much as possible- it was crowded since it was a holiday week.

She filled her autograph book. In fact, I just realized that she never got Cinderella to actually sign her book! We were caught up in the moment, I guess. So now I am working on getting pictures together to put in the book.


Here is one such photo. We were surprised at Animal Kingdom when we looked over in the bushes and there was Flik!

More to come...

Christmas 2006

We officially began Christmas in November with the hanging of the decorations and our first party on the 28th.

Remember how much fun she had last year opening presents? I need to get busy wrapping some
little things for her... I really have nothing right now. We have one big expensive surprise for her on Christmas Day.

She loves to ride this reindeer. She grabs his horns (as she calls them) and tells him "yeehaw!" and I just stand there and laugh. I need to get it on video.

See how curly her hair gets? The temperature determines if it will be curly or straight as a board. She is gonna hate it when she gets older.

missing myself

I had a few moments tonight to go and look back on my blog one year ago.

I miss myself.

I miss the pictures that I was taking.

I need to get a camera and get back on track.

I sent my 35mm camera to B&H Photo in New York for them to look it over and make me an offer. Instead, they took it and sold it. So they sent me a check and all of my accesssories. Hopefully I will get that package soon. It has been over a week.

I really need to get back into the swing on things.

Bella getting ready to dig in.
GBK learning to share. Or maybe she is learning to say NO! I was here first!

Digging in her cake. YUM!
And she read each and every card.

these will be a little out of order, but you get the idea
Bella got a car for her birthday. She loved to drive in reverse. I think Sam taught her how to drive. haha GBK wore fairy wings and a fairy skirt at the party- she picked lellow (not yellow). We will let the auntie give the details of the party on her blog.

time

Where has the time gone?

It seems I have no time to read, journal, take photos, clean the house. People ask me when they haven't seen them in a while "What have you been doing? Haven't seen you in a while."

I am just not sure what to answer.

sinus... enough said

I am at home feeling icky- sinus crud has me down.

Vick's VapoRub is about the only thing that is helping at this point. So don't come over unless you want to leave smelling like Vick's because I am sure that the whole smells smells of it.

I have done something really crazy this week though. I did it later in the year this year than I did last year...

Wanna know what it is?
I hung my Christmas decorations.

I have counted 15 trees this year versus the 30 or so from last year. So I didn't get too too crazy.
(Some of them are very very small, mind you!)

This is the third year that I put up a little something with tiny frame ornaments with Christmas pictures of years past. It is so fun to see how GBK grows from year to year. This will be her 3rd Christmas but I will never forget last year when she would open each present with such enthusiasm and gratefulness. It was like giving fresh water to the man deserted on the island for 20 years. I have never seen anything like it. Thank you! WOW! Yeah! she would shout at the top of her lungs.

I can not wait until this Christmas... It is only 48 days away...

Happy Halloween

She had the best time trick-or-treating. I wish you could hear her say Happy Halloween. Clear as a bell.

She got lots and lots of candy- just in time too. I am using it as bribes for her to use the big girl potty.

Can you believe that she has never ever had a haircut? She has natural bangs.

More to come. Just not sure when.