The Puddles

I don’t like this chair. Not because of it beauty but because I don’t like lazyboys I. My living room. Chris coerced me last month to let him move our ugly brown chair in there. And then he saw this lovely chair at the church garage sale. So he asks in front of a dozen other people if he could get it. Seriously? I can’t really be open and honest about this chair and my feelings about it in front of so many people.
I don’t like it.
Chris sits in this throne with guests over and goes horizontal in 5 seconds. I swear he has actually snored on occasion. The pope could walk into our house and Chris would go sit in his chair and kick his feet up!
So to pay him back for bringing this into the house. . . I am sitting in it constantly and refusing to get out. I am depriving him of his chair, and he hates it. He is having to sit on the couch and not enjoy his newest addition! So haha, Chris.

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It was a good crowd today even though it was Spring Break. It was a good day to be in church. A little time to give praise to God for the blessings He has given us. Especially for the great garage sale fundraiser for the camp kids yesterday. I am also eternally grateful that it is over for another year!

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I thought my life was full, but going well.  I had several really good days on a good work flow, dinners on the table, life being good, and then . . . BAM!  I found lice in Madie’s hair.  She had her head on my lap and one crawled across my leg.  If that doesn’t have you grossed out and your head scratching, there were hundreds of them.  There was essentially an army of bugs preparing for an invasion in her beautiful brunette hair. It is so long and thick and gorgeous.  Translation . . . it took a really really really long time to treat her head.  11 hours the first day, almost 3 hours the next, and then after an hour on the third day we found live ones again, so we had to treat her head with chemicals again.  Add mounds and mounds of laundry, excessive vacuuming, more mounds of laundry, spraying pesticides on areas that can’t be washed, boiling all hair supplies, and bagging up stuffed animals and I am one tired puppy.

After the seventh hour of hair cleaning/ bug killing the first day, I finally called the pediatrician.  The nurse told me that we were already doing everything that she would recommend.  She mentioned that a lot of the bugs nowadays are resistant to RID.  Darn.  But after sharing our case with the doctor, the doctor gave us a prescription since Madie’s hair was so bad.  Of course, we called around and none of the pharmacies carried the drug or didn’t carry enough to treat all of Madie’s hair.  So we special ordered it (thank goodness for insurance.  It would have been $180 without it.).  Madie’s hair is in a couple dozen braids so the I can look at one section at a time.  My eyes hurt from the strain of looking. And I am beginning to see lice everywhere.

My worse fear has always been that Madie would get lice. And now that she has it, I pray she never gets it again.  The doctor said the more diligent we are up front, the better of a chance that we won’t have a repeat performance.  Poor Ainsley has no bows to wear for 3 weeks and Madie has to wear her hair up in braids for 3 weeks. Both are disappointed.  I have been searching Ben and Ainsley’s head every day and so far so good.  No lice.  I hope my luck holds on that one. Pray for me if I get it. I’ve shown Chris a million little bugs and nits and he still swears he can’t see them. (Now that I type it, I am beginning to wonder if he is faking so he doesn’t have to do lice duty.)

Madie has really been a trooper through all of this. She hasn’t freaked out too much.  She has been patient. And most importantly, she has sat really still while I looked through her hair.  Let’s hope that this is a phase that will soon be over and we can joke about it when she is 30 and has her own children!

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Great church today! The contemporary band is playing. I love the song selections! Very uplifting even in the time of lent. Even Ben is smiling!

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We need to sell out so we can get out of the cold!

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Yesterday at our booth sale, Ainsley had an entire grocery cart fall over and land on her head.  Now granted she was hanging on the side when it happen (which she shouldn’t have been doing).  But it was still an accident.  That girl wailed for 30 minutes.  I had to go inside Walmart and buy her an instant cold pack.  But that girl stood by the booth holding an ice pack on her head and SOLD COOKIES. That’s right. She got the sympathy sales.  But she stood there with red rimmed eyes, dried tears on her face, and an ice pack on her head and still was asking people to buy cookies.  She was a great example to some of my older girls in the troop who won’t ask anyone.

But then again, it is a part of her DNA, and you can’t hold a good man down.  My girl is good.

p.s. Daddy came and got her.  He took her home.  After that kind of injury she deserved a night off from selling!

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We just spent 4 hours at Walmart selling cookies. We sold a ton of cookies! So much that we nearly sold out of everything that we had. So the cookie mom and I went and got 86 cases of cookies just to get through the weekend (there are 5 more booths this weekend).
Madie and I have two booths. I have high hopes for both! Madie wants to sell 300 total for herself. I hope she makes it!

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Ben met a new friend at church. They were like two peas in a pod. Comparing notes they figured out that they both had mrs. Sellars for kindergarten and were both in gymnastics. Ben was so excited he forgot to ask her what her name was. The conversation was so exciting that both myself and the other mom had to keep shushing them. It was a good night. And it was awesome that we found new friends from the other church (both Lutheran churches are celebrating lent together). Ben is looking forward to next week already and that is saying something.

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Madie had a friend spend the night last night.  Sweet girl. The two of them decided to spend the night in a tent in the backyard last night.  Of course, that meant I slept on the couch and I made Chris padlock the gate.  But surprisingly the girls made it the whole night.  They had so much fun.  They decided to go back in the tent this morning and play.  Even Ainsley went and joined in the fun.  Well, Ben didn’t want to miss out on the fun too.  So he dressed in his ninja costumes (including guns and swords) and attacked the girls in the tent.  When the initial attack didn’t have the results he was looking for (the exodus of all girls from the tent), he took a water hose to the tent.  Yes. A water hose. Now everything is wet.  The tent. The girls. The books. The blankets. The sleeping bags.  They are sopping wet.  Yuck.  Ben still is laughing.  Of course, when the girls came and told me, I walked outside and giggled too.  I did not help the situation.  But boy, I am mad at the work that I have to do now!  Double yuck!

At least everyone had a good time!  Now on to cleaning up the mess!

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