Yes, I could feel them crawling. It was a like tickle mostly at the base of the hair line, but at times, I felt them everywhere. It drove me nuts. Go for the medicated shampoo!! Shampoo and leave that stuff on for as long as you can stand it. I tried for an hour. I'd feel the suckers crawl out of my hair and down my neck. I had the spray also, and so I sprayed my neck and killed them. Also, watch that they are not in your eyebrows! Yowsah!! Rinse the stuff out but don't use shampoo it out; don't condition either. Try to go as long as you can without shampooing and try to avoid conditioner. Repeat at the first sign of new tickles. By day 7, they were alive and crawling again for me!! You may even need a 3rd round. But, we thorough and aggressive from the beginning. (PSA...if you aren't you'll end up putting malathion on your head....that's mosquito killer!!! YUCK!!) So, now that I've shared my awful story, please don't go thinking I'm a dirty person. Really, I'm not. I just didn't treat thoroughly and way the pillow each day, etc. I was lackadaisical and paid for it! And, yes, they kept me up at night. We also found that if, when you feel the tickle, you rub the entire area around the tickle, you can smash the suckers and get some relief. Rub like crazy. It was wonderful relief!!! Good luck to you! It took me a long time to get over feeling tickles, imaginary ones, in my hair!!!:grouphug:

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My mom write entirely without a subject: Traveling to Birmingham tomorrow. Will be running the case analysis for Charlie. Will hit the mall when I get back. UGH!!

One child with IgA and IgG deficiencies, too. It was tough at first; she was a very sick child and we limited trips out of the house and avoided sick people for several years until the infusions of gamma globulins through a port stabilized her. Yes, we carried purell and wiped down tables at restaurants. Yes, we wore a mask at the doctor's office, not because she was sick, but because they were! LOL Yes, we missed parties and family events. Yes, we discovered that most people would go out of there way to say they'd been sick and that we should avoid them. Yes, we learned that you can ask to use a room that no one has used that day at the doctor's office--and get it! Yes, we treated every single fever and cut aggressively. Will you have to be that draconian? Probably not. Your child has an immune system; it is just suppressed. Will you want to limit exposure to sick people? Definitely, in my opinion. One of the big reasons we homeschooled was to keep her from the germs that circulate around a local school. Also, no public daycares or church nurseries. I hope that this time in your life is short. Spring is coming and RSV season is nearing its end. Maybe some nice warm weather will hit and the germ load everywhere can do down. Honestly, once we got used to constantly thinking about germs, it just because a part of life. My dd, even at 5, was great at asking for purell or keeping her mask on. Hugs to you.....this has to be SO hard!!!

No... sorry! I think it is too short.

WOW~ I'm am blown away with your organization!

45....sigh Guess it was a sign that I needed to dye my roots. But, I enjoyed the discount! LOL

NO! And I'd be going up the chain at your church. Sometimes, young leaders do stupid things.

P.S. The garage door is fine. The roof top carrier is, well, shorter!

We have had a rooftop carrier on our van for about a week and my dh has reminded and reminded me to NOT drive into the garage. Guess what I did yesterday? Yep. Guess what I did AGAIN today? Yep. I told dh about the first; I think I'll just omit the second occurrence! Does anyone else space out and do nutty things that they knew they should do???

I teach General and Organic Chemistry at a private 4-year college. Congratulations to your son for his excellent performance in OChem!! Yes, he can get a decent job with just a BA/BS in chemistry. The guidance office usually has a poor idea of science jobs. Our students who leave with a BS usually get their first job through Science Temps. Typically, starting salaries are around 30,000 and lead to permanent employment within months. It's a pain-free way to break into the job market. For a B+ or better chemistry major, I'd strongly encourage them to consider at least a master's degree. For chemistry, this degree will take 2 to 2.5 years and cost next to NOTHING! They will work for a university and teach undergraduate labs to pay for their education. Stipends for chemistry majors is 15,000 to 20,000. At the end, you will have accumulated almost NO new debt and have a super marketable degree. (Please note: this will NOT be true for biology majors--too many of them so the grad school pay is lower by far! Usually) Finally, your son should start looking for paid summer research positions or, if there is a lot of industry in your area, for an internship. Have him google "summer undergraduate research" and chemistry. Almost every university has a program for 10 weeks each summer for potential graduate students to come to try their hand at research. Such programs will give your son valuable experience with research, techniques, and instrumentation. And the pay is much better than a burger-flipping job! He may need to work hard for one after his sophomore year, but will likely have a choice of a couple of schools to do research at after his junior year. Deadlines are typically mid-February, so he still has time. Job outlook for chemist: excellent. We place every single major in a degree-related field within months of graduation. HTH!!

http://thepioneerwoman.com/blog/2011/12/all-i-wanted-was-a-doughnut/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thepioneerwoman+%28Confessions+of+a+Pioneer+Woman%29&utm_content=Google+Reader It's a good one!

Christmas Eve and the two regular ones on Sunday.

Ion....as in Cat-ion! Hey, I'm a chemist!

It's not enough to lock the door or look around the room. Our eldest was swimming and tapped on the window, peeking through the 1 inch of glass that was not covered while we were brewing. Let's just say that he did NOT want to talk about what he got a glimpse of. Never been brought up again. But, dh and I laugh about it still.:lol:

I'll second book22.com. Look under aids and see what strikes your fancy. That's part of the fun: anticipation. If you don't like something, try again. You may need to try a couple of spices for your tEa before you get the right flavor.

I've done that since the kids were out of diapers. I'm relieve to know that others do this, too. Also, I don't bathe them every day. Shhh!!!!

I learned on bamboo and loved them....until I tried addi lace turbo needles. WOW what a difference. I think they'd be a bit too slippery to learn on, but once you are a decent knitter, I think the addi needles really slide the yarn nicely. I like the sharper points, too!

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My standard response is that I take them into the bathroom once a week and beat them up for their lunch money! Socialization: check! NOT I don't want my kids to think that bully behavior is the norm and that it should be tolerated. I LIKE it when my kid are shocked at behaviors of other teens.

Yep, Wisconsin isn't bad at all!! I live in, essentially, North Dakota. Trust me! There are far worse places to live than Wisconsin!:001_smile:

Yep, Wisconsin isn't bad at all!! I live in, essentially, North Dakota. Trust me! There are far worse places to live than Wisconsin!:001_smile:

NO and NO!! But my MIL admits to ironing her husbands underwear and my husbands diapers (when he was little). She said that she was a very, very bored wife to a missionary at the time, though!

I was really, REALLY hoping you'd say that I could do minimum job....sigh!!

Creepy, disgusting, and fascinating....all at the same time. Do you think I'm nut to just clean the infected child and her room plus the family room thoroughly. No other child is infected???