I can almost guarantee you will be itching by the time this post is over.

So, where to start? The last week of school Kathrynn came down with lice. I noticed she was itching quite a bit and while I was braiding her hair I saw she had quite the little egg farm going on! EWWW!

I kept her home from school and luckily I was off of work that day. I didn't find any in Aiden or my hair (which is crazy amazing since we all sleep in one bed!) but opted to treat everyone just to be oh the safe side. So we bought the super nasty highly poisonous shampoo to RID ourselves of the lice. I fin it odd that it says if you get it on your skin you should wash it off immediately but we're supposed to completely saturate our hair with it and let it set for 10 minutes. Good thing our scalps are made of super skin...

The next week Aiden came down with chicken pox. My sister's three girls all came down with them the last day of school. I intentionally exposed Aiden since we didn't get the vaccine. My other two nieces were also exposed, since they were vaccinated we didn't expect them to get the pox. They BOTH got them. One of them got a pretty bad case of them too. Makes me further question the logic (or apparent effectiveness) of a chicken pox vaccine.

Aiden has the pox really bad! On the bottoms of his feet, under his eyelids, on his penis. He's been pretty miserable. At one point he had a temp of 104 in his ARMPIT! And that wasn't even accurate because the thermometer hadn't beeped it was just as high as it got before he was tired of letting me stick it in his armpit anymore. He seems to be on the mend though now. And we shouldn't have to worry about pox in this house anymore.

The pox were pretty well timed though because Kathrynn was gone during them. She went to Ohio to be with Shawn and her 'other family'. So I was able to focus my attention on Aiden. The downside was that because she was on the road she didn't get her second lice treatment. :(

So today I picked her up at the Airport in Seattle. She had a good trip and loved that she got to fly home. But when I saw her I thought for a moment SHE might have chicken pox! But no they were flea bites! TONS of them! Apparently Amy's house has fleas and according to Kathrynn spiders and ticks too. FUN!

She's back now and I'm glad to have her lice an all. Yep she STILL has the lice. Poor baby! I treated her again the moment we got home. Hopefully they will go away!

Itchy yet?

LOL

For as long as I can remember I have wanted a tattoo. And I've been legal to get one for almost 11 years now. There was always just one thing standing in my way.

Shawn.

Actually there was more than just Shawn standing in my way. There was my own timidity that made it hard for me to just go and do what I wanted without having a cheerleader.

Well Shawn is gone but the need for a cheerleader is unfortunately still there. And she came in the form of Jamie. Jamie is one of the girls I work with. She's 19 but seems older, perhaps because she is also going through a divorce right now.

Anyway, yesterday she and I went out and got tattoos. It was another dream realized. It didn't even hurt as badly as I was prepared for it to hurt. :) And I think it looks totally awesome!



I designed it myself. I took in a fairly rough and thrown together drawing for the tattoo guy to use as reference but he ended up copying it nearly exactly. His lines of course are straighter than mine but really it's exactly the dragonfly I designed. I'm a little ecstatic, can you tell?

My grandmother is coming to town today. I can't decide if I should make any effort at all to hide the tattoo from my family. I AM 28 years old. LOL And I know that eventually they will all see it anyway. :)

I think I'm just going to show it to them all.