Well its been a long time since I last blogged ... almost 3 weeks ago. The last time I blogged, Big Sissy, Bubby, and I had just spent the entire day at the Indiana State Fair thanks to the Indiana Soybean Alliance. It was an extremely hot day, but we sure had a blast.
Little did I know as we were spending the day meeting the amazing 2010 Indiana State Fair Queen Denae Pyle, eating Hawaiian Shaved Ice, wearing pig noses as it was the Year of Pigs, and checking out the God Bless American sculpture depicting the American Gothic painting at the State Fair that survival would soon be the name of the game at this pig pen.
When we went to the State Fair, I knew we had exactly one week before Big Sissy started second grade. What I didn't know is that I would soon find head lice in her hair. This changed every plan we had for the week before school started. Although it appears life is now returning to normal ,whatever normal is at this pig pen, life has been anything but normal the last few weeks.
All of our toys and clothing, which when you have 3 young children is essentially every possession you have, have been bagged up in trash bags. I have done more loads of laundry in the last few weeks than I have ever done in that period of time and every load of laundry has been done with hot water and dried on the hottest temperature on my dryer. So far, I have only shrunk our brand new shower curtain as I didn't know it was dry clean only. I limited everyone, including myself, to 5 outfits and one pair of pajamas that we washed everyday along with every one's sheets to help keep this under control.
I keep telling myself that the positive of all of this is that our house has now been cleaned completely from top to bottom several times and we even had our curtains and drapes dry cleaned; however, I would not wish head lice on anyone. We also have not allowed anyone to touch the toys that have been bagged up for the last few weeks as I am in no rush to add clutter back into this pig pen. I have told the kids that we will only go through the bags one at a time and if we can't find a place for the toy, we will donate it to Goodwill.
I hate to jinx myself, but this is most definitely the worst thing I have been through as a parent. (I know it could have been much worse and still could be; however, it is definitely very mentally and physically draining for a short period of time.) From experience, I would guess that just reading this post is making your head itch ... Welcome to my world.
Needless to say, it has been a few crazy weeks at this pig pen and to make matters worse I had to go on a 4 day business trip 2 days after Big Sissy started school. Thankfully, we have survived and I did get to eat some real Maine lobster on my business trip and even brought some home for my family.
So I hope the start of this school year is not a sign of things to come as the last few weeks have been enough for me for awhile ... quite awhile.
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