Of Lice and Men

This week has been a booger.

As the semester end nears, the papers and projects that are due increasingly overwhelming. I’ve actually done a decent job of staying on top of things. I’ve finished one group project WAY ahead of schedule (which feels great!) and I’ve started the other three that are all due within three weeks.

But the problem is, in those three weeks I’ve got Thanksgiving, my son’s colonial day (in which he needs a costume), volunteering my my daughter’s art class, and I’m sure two or three other things that I’ve forgotten about.

So it seems that every couple of hours for the next several days are scheduled – I’ve marked out times to work on papers, and times to be with family. And that schedule is tight!

That’s why Sunday night when we discovered our three precious angels had caught head lice, I lost it! Actually, Sunday I was fine. Ran to the store, got the kit, sat the boys down in front of a movie and got to work. If you’ve never done it, it is a pain in the @$$.

I went to bed tired, disappointed that I hadn’t been able to work on a paper, but glad the ordeal was over.

But then yesterday afternoon I got a call from my daughter’s day care, and yes, sweet baby number three had the creepy crawlies. AAGGGH! That afternoon was my last chance to get any progress made on 2 lit reviews! But instead I spent the next couple of hours doing nit reviews!!! (Ha- at least now I can make lice jokes!)

I was so frustrated and overwhelmed, I just cried.

But like any other mother, I pulled myself together and got it done. The bet part was, that evening my husband came home with a bouquet of roses. I guess he knew how frustrated I was and this was his way of being encouraging (and probably thanking me for being the one to be on bug patrol)

So Thanksgiving will have a few little twists – I’ll be watching the kids for itching, and doing a follow up treatment, AND hopefully, writing a couple of papers.

There’s always something….!