I was sooo very much looking forward to a weekend of geocaching with the family!!! As I wrote about the audacity of people littering our local parks, I decided I would rather pick up trash than geocache... The kids don't mind helping with the trash on their quest for the cache, which is great... I on the other hand, don't need to hunt for the cache... I feel that I MUST pick up the trash!!!
So we had planned to spend the day together as a family enjoying the outdoors, cache hunting, and picking up trash.... Yesterday was INSANE with Girl Scout training classes, soccer, and mowing yards... Today was going to be OUR day!!!
Funny how fast all that can change... We ended up in the urgent care clinic last night with my husband so covered in chigger bites that he was having an allergic reaction... I feel so sorry for the misery he is experiencing, yet kind of enjoyed the little "digs" I was able to get in over the whole thing... I am by no means cruel, but it was quite humorous to have to duct tape socks over his hands to keep him from scratching any further... The kids couldn't fight the urge to help... I mean it is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see "Daddy" with his hands taped up in socks... He himself duct taped his socks to his feet and ankles to keep the scratching attempts from working... Honestly I think he enjoyed being waited on hand and foot and the kids loved that he had to have help...
This morning, he is feeling better... However, the youngest is covered in the smallest seed ticks I have ever seen... We haven't been anywhere in the last 2 days that he would get ticks!!! Of course, only the youngest in the family has them... All of them are above his waist and they are so little we could barely tell they were ticks... So today's plans have been altered... The spouse and kids are treating my parent's yard, while I scrub down the entire house and make sure that we are chigger and tick free inside our home... YEAH!!!
I'd rather be picking up trash outside, but I suppose at some point I should be doing the daunting cleaning I dislike so very much... At least it is less mundane than the Girl Scout Training Classes I attended yesterday!!!
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Just as info, I have found those lice kits with the repellant spray for hair are great to have around. You use the shampoo like a shower gel on your legs and ankles after being outside. It kills them. Then before you go out next time swab your lower legs and ankles with the repellant spray (that's supposed to be for hair). No chiggars!
He had taken Benadryl and was using some spray Benadryl along with whatever cream he got for the itching... They gave him a cortizone shot and then some cream for it... I couldn't type the name of it if I wanted to, but it is the same prescription cream they gave our toddler for poison ivy (which will come in handy in geocaching later I'm sure). The doctor also recommended Sansa which is over the counter (some type of liquid to wash with after being out in the brush)...
it was but then again I kept getting turned around way to
many times but I finally read this through to the end! And
that poor kid with the chiggers which I know nothing about
and hope I never run across them. Hey maybe your next
adventure will be fantabulous!