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Thursday, July 23, 2015

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Attack of the Scalp Monsters- and How I Survived It

When people see Zombie's big lustrous hair LICE is the last thing that's mentioned. They comment on the time it takes to detangle her hair, how long it is, how beautiful her loose spiral curls are but never-NEVER has lice been mentioned.... until yesterday afternoon.

I have never had lice and my eyes turned into a zero when hubs called me from the barber shop to tell me of his findings. How does it spread? How do you treat it? How can we prevent this from happening again? WHERE did she get it!

I quickly soaked her scalp in vinegar and left it there as if doing a deep conditioning treatment. I left it in her hair for about half an hour while she played in her bubble bath. Her screams and cries from the vinegar's initial contact with her scalp made me cringe! After the 30 minutes were up i simply rinsed her hair with warm water and shampooed- no conditioning followed. I then towel dried her hair, detangled it (ouch!) and used the thin comb in the NIX lice treatment box to go section by section through her hair, weeding out all the little critters. This process was tedious and honestly it really grossed me out; at least Zombie had a sense of humor as I continually told her I was killing all the "monsters" in her hair.

When hubs finally got home it was his turn. He lathered her hair with the orangish cream (beware of the eyes!) and after 10-15 minutes rinsed it out. Following the same steps as I had with detangling her hair and combing through tiny strands until she was all clear.

This morning I was still paranoid, and upon speaking with my mom she advised me to straighten her hair and all the left-over eggs and animals would fry to death. Sure enough I heard them sizzle like chicken on the grill! This was also a great excuse for a length check...someone is definitely up for her first hair-cut! But just the ends-I promise!

If you have any lice stories of your own to share or tips on how to prevent them please comment below!

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

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Magic in the batter: 3 ingredients to a yummy breakfast

With limited ingredients and an appetite for pancakes I hit the web for some ideas and ran into Paleo pancakes. This recipe only uses 3 ingredients! Bananas, eggs, and cinnamon; we added m&m’s to ours just cause I have to get rid of them.

Mika loved helping me break the eggs and mix the “batter” almost as much as she loved the taste of her creation!

On a side note:

with hair as curly as our little Zombie has it's often difficult to keep it untangled for more than a day-and-a-half (really though!) So I decided before going to bed I would try a braid-out and see how it held up. I LOVED IT! It was as simple as undoing the braids, shaking the roots and viola! A chic, voluminous summer style for our precious Zombie toddler.

Sunday, June 21, 2015

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Father's Day 2015: Loving the heaven sent chaos

This year for father's day hub's decided to switch things up a bit and take us on a hike to Split Oak Forest; thankfully we waited till 4:00 when the sun wasn't directly overhead- Enter summer in Florida.

After driving 15 minutes back and forth between campground sites, getting mugged by a white frog, and crashing a maternity photo-shoot we eventually found our trail. The path isn't exactly easy to follow and don't worry about picking up a map at the entrance as IT WILL NOT help in any way shape or form. I was far more successful using my natural wilderness instincts.

Mika's favorite part was the Bambi(s) we saw during our drive out of the park.

Bambi Dialogue: "Oh, hey guys, don't mind us we're just eating grass and stuff while you're parked 100 feet away from us squealing your heads off like you don't see at least one of my kin every other day!"

YEAH! Beautiful, elegant, ethereal and sarcastic, who would've known these animals could be so fiesty?! At one point a teenage deer and I had a staring contest; when it's furry tail started swishing fast I swore it was going to stampede towards my car in a fury.

The heat called for something that would give you a brain freeze so to the Froyo Shop it was!

I hope you all had a marvelous father's day with your loved ones. Don't take being a parent for granted. It's the best kind of chaos there could ever be!