Friday Funny
Ben told me to guess what he was currently studying in English. I racked my brain, do 12th graders still study British Lit.? I started with, "Pygmalion?, um, some Shakespeare, " but I could not remember what. Frantically tried to recall English Poets. He had THAT expression on his face. Of course, HAMLET!! He thinks it is funny that the teacher keeps saying, "Now we don't KNOW what happened to Hamlet's father". Of course, Ben remembers because we did a family play a stunning 7 years ago! The kids wore tagboard signs suspended around their necks to indicate who they were. They ALL remembered their parts. I felt so gratified. Joel was Hamlet; Ivy said, "I died twice in that play, I was Ophelia and the Queen!" Anna was the king, a ghost and something else. Which means Ben was everyone else! I know probably only Melinda will remember this because I forced her whole family to attend the only showing! Oh, and those fortunate singles who were sitting around the table at dinner when Jeanette, who was probably 2 1/2 suddenly declared, "The drink, the drink! I am poisoned!" and dramatically keeled over in her booster chair!
My disastrous day
So, Wednesday and Thursday morning were something of a loss for me. After church on Wednesday night, I was horrified to find a louse(singular for lice) crawling in my hair next to my ear. I dashed upstairs and immediately applied most of the bottle of RID and stripped my bed, gathered up all my clothes and jackets, removed all the Living room pillows, as well as my own. You can see that this is a long process. Combing out my hair revealed two more lice. NASTY! I am SO tired of this I could scream. The girls have had this over and over since December. I wish I could figure out WHERE they were coming from! Every time I completely dismantle their beds, wash and dry all their things in HOT water and dry them on high. I removed ALL stuffed animals for a month, and I check them constantly. I have bought new pillows from Walmart for Everyone(Thank the Lord they were on sale for $3!) and then again from the BX. I even cut Trinity's hair. Yes, she donated to Locks of Love, but the timing was motivated by several recurrences of lice. We have put away hats, bicycle helmets, worn constant braids, and even reported to the church and school, hoping they could help us track the source.
Thursday morning, I was putting in the last of my bedding to wash. It was my king size comforter. I wasn't so sure about washing it in my machine, but I have washed my quilt in there before and it fit, so I started it. And then had to run off to the Chiropractor because I forgot to give Ben a check when he left at 6:30 am. So there I was at 6:45, having left a check at the empty receptionist station when I received a call from home,"Mom, the washer is flooding the kitchen!" I got home to 15 towels covering the floor, and still it was like a swamp. When I pulled out the comforter, not all of it was wet, but it was SO heavy, it took Joel and I to put it in a basket and carry it outside. We pulled the washer out from the wall, but there were no leaks when we turned on sans comforter.
You would think that that would be enough before 7 am. But no, When Liberty woke up, she had wet through. And she was in my bed and the mattress cover was missing, so it went right onto my mattress. So again with the stripping of the bed, and then I had to make Joel help me again to drag the mattress out side to sit in the sun. I also thought it would discourage any lice. I was really glad the temperature got up to 70 that day, and no rain. Finally we, could do school.
If I had thought about it, I would have taken pictures. But in that state of mind, I was not thinking clearly. Hope this helped lift your day a little. We are all well and no one got hurt, just a little freaked out!
