Gotta Love Preschool!

This Thursday I got a call from Aminah's preschool. I had sent her to school with the sniffles and a cough so I thought that was going to be the call. Ms. Stephanie told me how much she liked me as a parent and wanted to make sure that after this call I didn't hate her. I was a little worried at this point about what she was going to say. She told me that Aminah had lice. OH! I totally didn't see that one coming. I told her I was on my way. That is when the fun began. I had Back-To-School-Night that evening and had to get ready for that. My head was totally trying to figure out what I was going to do about the LICE. Terri was going to Walgreens so she picked up the special shampoo and when I got home at 8:30, we began the process. I knew it was going to be a process, but I had no idea how much laundry I would go through over the next few days. We have pretty much been able to control the eggs and there was only one bug (the one they found at school). Hopefully on Tuesday she will be egg free and will be able to go back to school. I guess we will have to continue to check her daily for two weeks and we will also have to do another round of the shampoo 7 - 10 days later. No problem, I really don't want this to ever happen again. Aminah has a great attitude and the only time I saw her slightly upset was when she was at school and all the kids were running up to me telling me, "Aminah has bugs in her hair." She had such a sad look on her face at that point. I told each child that I knew and I would handle it. The look on Aminah's face when I calmly told them that was a little of relief. The rest of the process hasn't been tramatic for her at all. I can't wait to see my water bill and electric bill because of all the extra laundry that is being done in HOT water. It will be worth it, if I can have a bug/egg free household.