Wednesday

We have seen no live bugs since Sunday. I still do the daily comb-thru twice a day. One kid virtually nit free, the other has a handful every time. Still I won't feel comfortable for another 10 days.

My laptop is dying, making posting hard, but more importantly making working at night hard. My most productive time is between 8 and  midnight with Law & Order in the background, seated cozily on the couch. Tech guy comes today.

Rory made cheerleader. Parent meeting yesterday, she has to retain a 3.5 G.P.A. (the coach is adamant that the girls be role models for the right reasons). She has games two to three times a week. And it's going to cost around $350. She is thrilled. I'm hoping she doesn't want to do it more than one year.

Comments

[gawdess]

lice and cheerleaders?
it is like your own twisted episode of buffy, come to life.

[Songbird]

Vampire lice?

[Manager Mom]

Oh. My. God. I remember the lice. I would not wish that on my worst enemy. The Rid stuff didn't work, and they said the alternative was to use some sort of chemical that had been recently banned as a street pesticide or something. I attacked my poor daughter's hair with every homeopathic remedy I read about, daily, for two weeks straight. the last one before we were FINALLY lice-free consisted of drenching her hair with Cetaphil Moisturizer and then blowdrying it, a process which felt longer than a root canal with no sedatives. The following, finally nit-free week, a mom knowingly sent her kid into gymnastics with lice with my kid. When I found out, I almost had to be physically restrained from choking her.