What the Backpack Held
What is it about the word "lice" that its mere mention causes the skin to start crawling?
Sabrina brought The Note home from school today. The note no parent wants to pull out of the backpack. The Prelude to the Apocalypse note.
I suppose it coud have been slightly worse. It wasn't the "You Might As Well Shave Your Head Now" note. It was the slightly less terrifying, but still scratch inducing The "We Regret to Inform You That Your Child's Playmates Are Infested WIth Nasty Itchy Bugs That Will Never Go Away" Note.
The Note wasn't the only thing in the backbpack today. The Scholastic flyer was in there as well (yippee! Too bad The Lousy Week wasn't one of the featured selections.)
The other piece of paper that came home today almost made up for The Note, and at least briefly distracted me from my psychosomatic itching. Diva Girl got a Proud Pick* this month. For Friendship. After the rocky start to this year, I am thrilled that of all the awards she could have won, she got this one. So is she, which is really the important thing. It's a nice recoginition of how far she's come this year, and the lessons she's learned about compassion and kindness in the process.
Now please excuse me; it's hard to type and obsessively scratch at the same time.
*Proud Picks are monthly awards given out by Diva Girl's school. Each month the school focusses on a different area: Respect, Organization, Homework Completion, etc. At the end of the month they have an assembly and hand out awards to the students who best exemplify that month's focus.
Comments
Awesome Diva Girl. Just a quick thought about the itchy scratchies tho. I use a lice preventer for my girls, it is about a cup of water six drops of rosemary oil, six of lavender, six of eucalyptus and six of tea tree oil (all mixed up in a spray bottle). Shake it up and spray it on each time their hair gets washed and brush it through. Don't know why it works but it does and its not noxious to small people either. it smells like you would imagine (a bunch of herbs with some vaporub mixed in) but its not a nasty smell. good luck with the phantom itches
WooHoo! Way to go Diva Girl!
Urgh. Hate that Note. Hate it, hate it, hate it. Hate even more FINDING the damned things on my kids' hair. Bleah...
My sister used to use white vinegar in a similar way to Kate's concoction, and swore by it: "They smell like a salad, but they don't get lice!"
Kate's version sounds more gently aromatic, and probably much easier on hair and scalp.
