so what is every mom's nightmare?
losing a child in a shopping mall? yes, but this is even worse than that.
running out of wipes and your child has just done the biggest poo? yes, but this is even worse than that.
chewing gum in darling's hair? yes, we are on the right track here.
new hairdo courtesy of some illicit scissor action by child? yes, getting warmer.
stroking child's hair as she has a nap on your lap and noticing some suspicious little brown dots? BINGO! YOU ARE THE WINNER, GO STRAIGHT TO START AND COLLECT £200.
Yesterday Mouse was having such a sweet nap, and I was absentmindedly stroking her hair when I saw THEM!!!!! Those nasty little eggs stuck to her hair strands. My heart just sank, and on closer inspection I found her hair to be simply covered in lice eggs. I was horrified, and very cross. I think she picked them up from nursery, but we have been on a farm for a week, and we shared a bed.........so my worst nightmare has come true........I HAVE NITS TOO!!!! I was a nanny for nearly ten years and almost every child in my care had nits at some point, and I always managed to avoid them...rather triumphantly.....but now I have the dreaded lurgies and am quite furious.
Nits are not really an issue at home, but it seems these little cretins adore the British environment and it seems that having nits is completely part of your scholastic career here.
So then my next question is what is even worse than finding nits on your child and self?
Having to phone Mrs Rabbit to tell her that her children ( one with thick, luscious hair and the other with major cork-screws which are IMPOSSIBLE to comb ) may just have some unwelcome visitors too. I could hear it in her voice.....that worst nightmare realisation!
So next time you go on holiday please invite me along, and I shall reward you with the pain of nits.
I have blitzed our hair. Blankets and towels are in the wash as we speak, closely followed by bed-linen and dressing gowns.........ARGH!!!!!
And can I just add that when I told Mouse we had to go to the supermarket to buy some medicine for her hair because there are eggs and goo-goos in her hair, she was thrilled and announced it to everyone she could in Tesco's. I hung my head in shame...and silenced her with a milkshake.
(goo-goos. South African word for little bugs: not pronounced as in gooey but with a back of the throat phlegm- clearing gggggg and the oo is more like the word or.........hell, just phone me and I will pronounce it for you)
