Lice Strikes

First let me start by saying that eating healthy does wonderful things for your body.
Like make your nails grow so long and beautiful you scratch your eyes out every time you try to take your contacts out. Or make you have to pee every ten minutes because you're so freaking hydrated. Or make your hair so long and thick that getting lice out of it takes three treatments of lice killing spray and two treatments of mayonnaise and hours of combing with a fine tooth comb.
Take the bad with the good.

So for the last THREE weeks I have had a terrible rash over my neck and head. It started the same day I severely burnt my head in the shower by accidentally knocking the faucet into BLAZING HOT and singed my scalp, so I thought it was just healing. Then it started being little bites everywhere. Thought it was lice, then quickly rejected that idea after no one could see anything in my hair. Bed bugs maybe. Spider bites. Allergies to my shampoo all of the sudden? So I rearranged my room, took all the furniture out and swept, mopped, vacuumed.. washed all my sheets (no small feat with no dryer, by the way), etc.
FINALLY I itched my head and came down with one little bastard bug on my finger.
I ran to my fourteen year old, who had lice when I first got here, and she was like "Oui, poux."
Here, apparently, you just stock lice shampoo like normal first aid because it happens so frequently. But HOLY MOLY that treatment burns. And to my despair, I found out that the stinging is the little buggers biting in anger, because the second and third time I did it, the less it stung because I didn't have any bugs left to bite me.
Dad said mayonnaise suffocates them. So I performed a genocide on my head with a weapon of  mayonnaise and kept it in ALL DAY. I mean all day. Through a three hour photo shoot, lunch, a trip to the movies to watch Le Chat Potte ( Puss in Boots ) with the kids, and through dinner. Plus side, my hair was extra soft and luscious after I rinsed out all the mayonnaise and dead lice. (When I told my fourteen year old that I had it in my hair, she said "Oh that's why your hair doesn't look nice today." Thankksss)

Fun fact: Lice can't live outside your head. There is about a 1:1000 chance they will survive even on your pillow. There were studies done where the researches swept 100 classroom floors and found not one louse. Then checked the heads of those kids, and found SEVEN THOUSAND LICE.

Hallelujah because I really didn't want to call my schools and inform them I had probably infected 270 students.

When I tell the kids' dad when he gets back (I had the kids this weekend to myself), he's going to say "Welcome in France" ;)