I'm smiling more in general to tell the truth.
A slight shift in attitude goes a long , long way.
Today, a catch up of some of what matters most in my world :
On the best of days, I adore my daughter, on the worst of days I recognize how similar we are. I used to worry that I didn't do everything right when I raised her, and of course I didn't. One of the things that I worried about was one of the things that I love about her , her fierce independence. This independence has made many alpha males run for the hills, or in most cases, limp back to the cave.
When she first started seeing N she confided (not to me but ) to her godmother, St Kate, that, he was the one. Being my dear friend , St Kate immediately told me , but she also said that my daughter told her to tell me that she did not want to hear my "how much women change between 20 and 30" speech. She got it.
N has been a constant , quiet presence in their lives for the last three years.
We walked in to her house one day, and found a beautiful lavender vase, full of lavender roses....
for you? ,I say,
for the Cree Princess, she replies .
My husband whispers....this is one smart guy.
A panicked call... the Cree Princess has head lice.... a quick trip to the drugstore for lice warfare products. When I arrive, N is going through the Cree Princess hair, strand by strand while my daughter is ripping threw the house with a spray can and garbage bags. He is the one , I say. Shut up, she replies.
N has asked her to marry him a couple of times over the last year or so. She has always replied... ask me later.
She phoned me last night, ......they are going house hunting. He will sell his house and buy a house for them. She will keep her house and rent it out. A good investment she says.
N or the house?, I ask.
Both, she replies.
9 comments:
He sounds like a great guy. That head lice can be nasty business..
Lavender roses? My absolute favorite!
Yay! Good news!
Good news but the mere mention of the "L" word has me scratching my skull uncontrollably! Thanks!
Glad I could help put that smile on your face, just like you helped put one on mine.
N definitely sounds like a keeper. Marcel is the father of my daughters, and even HE wouldn't touch the head lice when they arrived in our house.
wow what a patient guy
He sounds like a wonderful man! How very lucky your daughter is.
Cleaning the House: Why, oh why, are you doing that?
Now that I'm on a roll, I want to knock down another big myth.
Cleaning the house isn't necessary to treat head lice,even with all that lovely free help!
In fact it's a total waste of time, money and effort.
If you have kids with head lice and you're spending hours cleaning the house and laundering the sheets every day, you're running hard in the wrong direction, so please stop now.
These are head lice, not house lice or bed lice or pillow lice. They live on heads. If they fall off, which they don't (thanks to their sturdy claws), they would die pretty quickly.
If they didn't die, your kids would have to do a headstand on just the right bit of furniture for long enough for the tiny, weakened louse to crawl back on.
Theoretically, it could happen, like winning the Lotto or being struck by lightning, but it's not exactly a major risk.
In Australia, a formal study by James Cook University's Head Lice Research Group at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine found that the chance of getting a live louse in a pillow after whole night's sleep was about one in a thousand.
In other words, you could sleep in the same bed for nearly three years before you got a live louse on the pillow.
Pretty small odds don't you agree?
And then, 12 hours later, if it survived, it would have to have the strength and the luck to climb back on again. While this is just about possible it really doesn't present such a huge risk of re-infestation that you should knock yourself out over it.
Put your effort where it counts.
These scientists also did a study by sweeping the floors of 100 classrooms used by kids they knew to be teeming with head lice.
You know how many lice they found on the floors? None!
While one team examined the floors, another team inspected the kids and removed more than 7,000 actual lice from their heads. Seven thousand-and not one found its way to the floor.
So stop running around like a chicken with your head cut off cleaning up after nonexistent lice. Concentrate your efforts on the kids' heads and you will win.
And please don't spray any of that aerosol stuff in your house. You are spraying a poison in your home to treat a harmless critter that isn't there! How crazy is that?
We have been giving this advice for seven years, and no one has come back to us and said, "You know, I wish I'd done more cleaning!" No, parents tell us that by not wasting time and being tired and stressed out they were able to work much better with their kids and stop their problems sooner.
We've observed something curious over the years that we've been involved in this business: Web sites tend to copy advice from other Web sites and add in any "extra" advice they find so they appear to be more thorough or authoritative.
What they don't do is challenge rubbish and stand up to givers of poor advice. It's almost as if they are trying to outdo each other in the amount of work they shove onto parents.
Our advice: don't believe half of what you read.
This is a simple problem of removing a tiny critter that is just sitting on top of your child's head, no more, no less.
Today's advice should free up a lot of time and energy and get parents concentrating on the kid's heads and not the furniture.
If you want to get started on this simple effective way of removing head lice get over to www.nitmix.com and read more.
N. sounds like a KEEPER!!
your daughter also sounds like a smart woman.....
head lice sucks, Ive never had to deal with it on a personal basis but I know a few parents who've battled it once, nasty stuff!
now my head is itchy and I KNOW I dont have it.....
Oh, he DOES sound like a keeper. The flowers alone would have hooked me.
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