What Comes Home in the Folder.....

The dreaded noted came home yesterday from Cassie's class - "a student in your class has lice."  Personally, it was like a total freak out moment for me.  I've heard all of the horror stories.  The painstaking process of getting rid of every nit, of cleaning every sheet, blanket, pillow case and article of clothing; the bagging of every stuffed item your children own..... and then the hair - oh dear, the hair.  Brooklyn's hair is so long, it would put me into orbit to have to comb the solution through it.  The sheer though of this freaks me out!

No worries - we have defense - a special leave in conditioner that repels Lice. The girls need to keep their hair in pony tails or braids for school and sprayed before they walk out the door for the bus.  No problem, right??? Well, sure, as long as Mommy is around.  As Cassie begins to storm upstairs to wake me up at 7:30am (the day after I had the radio frequency ablation done on my back) to get her hair done, Mama stopped her "Cassie, don't wake Mommy! I can put your hair into a ponytail."  Cassie looked at her for a second, processing what she had just said, and then took a couple more steps towards my room, she was clearly in disbelief.  Mama stated "Cassie, please don't wake her, watch, I can do this!" as she proceeded to grab Brooklyn's hair and form a disorganized ponytail in the back of her head.  "See, no problem."  Well, it may not have been the neatest or the most organized ponytail, but it was in fact a ponytail, and for all intensive purposes, it would do.  Cassie gave in; handed Mama the pony holder and held her breath.  Mama was even good enough to remember that all three kids needed to get sprayed with Lice Repelling Leave In Conditioner, crisis averted, and Mommy was still sleeping in, recovering from her back procedure.

It does sort of crack me up how the kids know which one of us is better at certain things.  Math homework goes to Dawn.  Art projects come to me.  Sporting issues, Dawn.  Drama on the bus, Me.  (Personally I'd like to give that one up).  Either way, they have found our strong suits, more or less, on their own, which is pretty darn impressive.   Both of us completely agree that they are growing up way too fast, especially as we have had the opportunity now to revisit what I had posted in the beginning years.  The reminder of what happened almost daily, it seems like forever ago, yet it was only a few years ago. We truly have seen every bit of the quote:

"The days go by slowly but the years go by quickly"

Hey, it's a ponytail, no one said it had to be neat!!!