Earth Day

I love when it rains all night. I got out of bed a bit late, and having watched Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution last night, felt guilty for giving the kids a Pop Tart for breakfast. I made orange juice to ease my guilt a bit. They were too late to catch the bus so I drove them to school and stopped at the grocery store on my way home. Back home, I was unloading my healthy groceries and got a phone call from Preslie's teacher saying that she needed to be picked up because she had a tick on the back of her neck.


As I threw Mack in the car, I remembered the past few days of Little Babe complaining about the back of her head itching and one night she asked me to check her for lice. I checked and didn't see any. But you'd think I would have noticed this fat boy...



All the regular suggested removal tips (smother it with Vaseline, touch it with a hot needle or match) did not work. And in the middle of this I had to go get Hunter from school and clean up a box of baking soda that got dumped out when my attention was diverted.

I called our pediatrician and he said the best way to remove it is to grab it with some good tweezers down by where it's hooked on and pull gently, slowly, and consistently until it is out. It was hooked on pretty good. Then I drove Preslie back to school. Four trips in one day to the elementary is my new record.

I was sort of wiped out from all the excitement but knew I'd better suck it up because I had cub scouts in a few hours. Then Dax called and said they cancelled his horse rides because of the rain so he was coming home early. I was more thankful than ever for the rain because he was able to come teach my scouts about Wildlife Conservation (which is what we've been studying all month). It took such a load off to have him come!

All this nature stuff and the fact that I remembered to use my own bags at the grocery store made for one fulfilling Earth Day.

P.S. I bet Dax brought that tick home from work.