Not looking forward to this week. We discovered this morning - in church! - that the girls and Mommy all have head lice...
So we picked up some lice shampoo on the way home and we had a family nit picking afternoon... only we didn't get very far :-( Grace got thoroughly picked over, Jasmin somewhat, and Mommy not even shampooed and that took all afternoon and evening (that's what it takes when you can't find a proper comb)! While Mommy was busy nit picking Grace, Daddy went through Jasmin's hair, got a start on delousing the girls' bedroom and made supper.
This is when Mommy began to dread the week:
fully delousing the household without easy access to any hot water, definitely no hot water for the washer, no dryer, no medicated shampoo declared safe for pregnant women, no proper lice comb, and three of us with a head full.... one one treatment of one head took 6 or 7 hoursit could be a very long week...
It's a good thing Mommy has properly passed into the 2nd trimester oasis of regained energy and well-being - we're going to need it!
Liz, I hope you got the lice all cleared up. What a headache that is!!! Did you find something to use on yourself that is safe? Friends of ours had lice last year and they didn't want to use any of the regular lice shampoo because of all the chemicals in it. They used olive oil, tea tree oil and lavender oil. They saturated there heads in the olive oil and a bit of the essential oils, then covered their hair in a tight plastic bag and it suffocated the lice. I am sure you could probably find this recipe online. It worked for their family of 7. I think the hardest part for you will be the linens since you don't have a dryer. My head is getting itchy writing this, I better end it now. Hope you don't have to deal with lice for long!
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