And Then There Was Blood...

I HATE CLIPPING BABY NAILS!

(This was my first time cutting her.)

Here We Come A Caroling

Last night we went Christmas caroling at a local nursing home with Andrew's cub scouts.  We had talked with Andrew about what to expect and how excited many of these people would be to see kids and hear Christmas carols.  It was a fun family night for George, Andrew, Lily and me. :)

The people watching were very sweet and so grateful for these boys to be there.

We met a gentleman who was 104 years old who adored Lily. He just kept telling us how health and family was all that mattered and to enjoy these moments with her.  He really was so thoughtful and sweet. I'm glad we met him.

Lily was a BIG hit with all the people we met, as she usually is with older people that we run into while out shopping or something...they just ADORE her and always stop us to talk to her or ask about her. ♥

There were lots of falalalalas, we wish you merry Christmases, santa clauses coming to town, jingle bells and of course, 12 days of Christmases.  The Pack also gave out gifts and handmade cards to the residents and  had snacks after the caroling which, of course, the kids loved!

Lily loved everything so much, she just couldn't stay awake any longer. :)

George and I also talked about how a simple thing like singing Christmas carols for our older generations puts a lot in perspective about life...

I'm glad we were able to do this as a family. It was fun night. :)

Lice, Lice Baby

What do you do when you're so frustrated with a situation that you just can't fix?

Why you make up songs about it, of course.

My poor, sweet stepdaughter has had a rough go of things for the last month. Yes, 4 weeks, she (and all of her parents) have been enduring lice.

I first wrote about it at the end of November: http://gotonepastgoalie.blogspot.com/2010/11/cant-stop-scratching.html

Here we are FOUR weeks later STILL dealing with it.

Now, here's the thing.  It's not here and not at her mom's.  It's at school.  And there isn't a "no nit" policy, so kids who have lice and/or nits can come to school and are not sent home when it's discovered at school.  She goes to school clean and comes home with them --doesn't matter whose home she's coming home to or going from--ours OR her mom's. (no one else has had them at our house or mom's.)

I'm tired of doing laundry, throwing away hair ties, keeping her coat and backpack and stuffed animals bagged up and picking nits out of her hair.  I've learned through the million hours of reading that most of the nits she has are "empty" since they're not near her scalp, but of course, it still requires picking them out and treatment over and over and over and over and over.

We just do what needs to be done. 

Well, last week after 3 1/2 weeks of this, when the nurse called to say she'd had more nits, we expressed our frustration and voiced our concern about the "no nit" policy.  Unfortunately, her hands are tied. It doesn't, however, eliminate the frustration we're all experiencing.

So, that night as we picked through the hair of this sweet little frustrated 6 year old girl, I started singing... "Lice lice baby" to Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby".  She laughed as I continued with "Will it ever stop? Yo! I don't know."
Along with other songs...
"You're as cold as lice"
"Your lice your lice your lice is my drug"

Funny enough, I heard her in the shower singing, "lice lice baby. alright stop."

Alright stop. is right. :) 
We're maintaining our senses of humor, luckily. :)