Mourning the Loss

of my boys' hair today...



one day after a call home to come pick up my sons because they contracted lice. Neither my brother or I ever got lice as kids and I was at a complete loss of what to do or where to start, other than knowing that I wanted to avoid chemical treatments and use a natural remedy of some sort.



Just thinking ahead to all of the extra loads of laundry, head treatments, vacuuming of furniture, etc. in my immediate future made my own head swirl and I embarrassingly shed a few tears in the secretary's office as she gathered some brochures for me to take home. I can't even remember the last time I cried previous to that, so I guess my emotions bottled up and I was due.



Once home, I posted my dilemma on facebook and received several instant helpful responses and emails on how to tackle this beast. It was unanimous amongst my fellow mommy friends that the boys' should get brush cuts pronto. Two reliable sources suggested vaseline as the mode of suffocating the bugs. Perfect, we had that already. I did make a quick trip down the road to the drug store for shower caps for nighttime and a special nit picking comb.



This morning I was dreading combing through their scalps searching for any remnants of the critters. I can't stand creepy crawlies! Christian and Griffen were so cooperative as I ran the faucet over their head and managed to get as much greasy vaseline out as possible. Next I grabbed my trusty new tool and went to work looking for either the actual bugs or the eggs. I couldn't find a single thing on either boy! Pierre hadn't seen anything when he shaved their heads yesterday either.



The principal told me to bring them in this morning for a follow up inspection and both of them passed. Christian got the all clear and Griffen did have one elusive live bug left (which was then removed), but no eggs and was ok to return to class. He will be getting one additional treatment this evening, just in case.


This had to happen a few short weeks before the Fall pictures that we are having taken. I don't know how much growing can happen in that amount of time, but it's one of those things that's completely out of my control.



What good sports these guys are! At least they had each other to go through it with.