Who am I kidding, every week is an adventure in this house! With a housefull of kids, wifely duteis, mommy duties, NON (Erica calls me her Number One Nanny) duties, photographer duties, working out duties... Oy, may as well throw me a few punches in there.
So last week, my daughter came home with LICE. Not Rice, Lice. That's right, I wrote it down.. my head itches thinking about it! And I think that sums it up.. right? I mean, you have to imagine, me.. the kind of person I am.. somewhat of a neat freak, mama-bearish, with a slight germaphobe issue... this challenged me on all those levels. First I was pissed off.. blaming everyone she came in contact with (just being honest here) but "google" and my girlfriend Keri sort of set my mind at ease and aswering my 10,000 questions! So after I came to the realization that one little bug followed by another little bug was not a good thing.. Hubby ran to the store and got that RID kit. Fast forward.. she's in the tub, I'm combing her for HOURS... but it doesn't end there people! I have 2 other kids and a little baby to think about! So I tore off every bed sheet, every towel, every pillow case.. I basically washed everything that could be washed! For Real. I stayed up all night.. cleaning, wiping, vacuuming, and combing again.. I threw away things, her stuffed animals, pillows, you name it..)
And that was just Monday!
By Tuesday night... the lice was still in her hair.
I repeated (that first paragraph) again... and again.. I'm surprised the washer and dryer still works.. or I'm still coherent.
Wednesday, she's fine... lice free.. but I just can't send her back to school. I mean if she got it from there.. why risk it? So I kept her home all week! Repeating that first paragraph.. over and over again..
Come to find out.. on Friday when I went to pick up her homework, a notice was sent home with all the families that her school had some sort of "lice" issue. Ga-reat!!!
Fast forward to today.. everyone one in this house is lice-free. But it took everything in me to let her play outside today. I'm the neurotic mom who said if she wanted to play with her friend, I had to check her hair in the light with my fine toothed comb. So she got to see the daylight.. which was gorgeous today. But tomorrow she 'heads' (get it) back to school.. and I'm even dreading the bus ride.. I almost want to send her to school with that spray that came with the kit so she could spray the seat down before she sat in it.
So there you go.. that's my CRAZY self shining through. I'm still neurotic like that where she can't go out without covering her head with her hoody or hat that I wash everyday!
That was home-life.
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This weekend we had our Fall Mini Sessions.. I think we ended up with 12 families, half our increments, and all day at a nearby park.. I don't think I need to say anymore about that.. it was non-stop. Wait, I should capitalizze that one NON-STOP! And I'm still exhausted. But we get to see some families that have been coming to us for years now and meet new ones.. so it's always a plus :)
There's a TON of photos other than those minis that are awating for me to finish.
Clients to call back.
Orders to send out.
Photos to back up and burn.
There's always something that needs to be done that I can't seem to catch up on.
That was photography-life
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But this was the icing on my week..
NINE MILES. completed.
I run and let my mind go.. just enjoying the peace the serenity of being alone, even for just over an hour. I needed this, and was thinking about this run since Monday...This.Is.How.I.Relax... I know, I don't get it sometimes :0
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Oh and this big-lug.. keeps me sane :)
This really hit home for me and TOTALLY cracked me up because it is OH SO TRUE! There is just WAY to much info about Lice/Louse etc!! And Keri is the go to girl. I love how her and her mom's minds work. If they can't figure it all out, no one can. We found a louse in my son's head...ya know the BIG one! It was SUPER creepy! Sydney came home with it from her Dad's in Vermont so, State to State traveling lice!! I ended up having to cover Sydney & Colin's heads in vaseline, saran wrap, and shower caps for 8+ hours to suffocate them out. And of course washing, washing, throwing stuff out, and YES spraying down the seats! And you know what, I totally think that our tax payers money should go towards the bus drivers spraying those seats down occasionally! I'm ALL for it! LOL CRAZY!!
Posted by: Tami Tucker | September 27, 2011 at 05:09 AM