Tigers and Lions and Bugs! Oh No!

Tigers and Lions and Bugs! Oh No!

A catastrophe occurred while Sunshine, Mary Sharon, Eleanor, and Kepler were camping in the Tourist Park in Marquette a couple of weeks ago. They discovered that Mary and EP had lice! They think Eleanor's shiney brown hair was innocently growing toward her waist when it did one too many sassy bounces off a train seat or something when she was traveling in Chicago with Vicky the week before. The kicker is that Eleanor starts her first year of middle school in a week! Last time she had lice she was starting kindergarten and couldn't get rid of them until all her golden curls had to be shaved off. She went to school with a little lace beany on. Can you see it? Well, needless to say that won't happen again, but the family gathered around the campfire after some
pretty nasty shampooing. Mary and Eleanor cut their hair to shoulder length and Sunshine shaved his in solidarity. They decided to pretend they were fugitives...changing appearances and leaving the campground clandestinely. They wished they had some old ID to burn with the hair in the fire.
So this week they are going around with Vaseline and tea tree oil in their tight braids. Kepler's caregiver says little black children never have lice....their hair is always oiled and braided.

Eileen told me that when she was a girl in second grade with long black braids..aww...she got lice at school. Mom left her with Geneva's mother, Wilma York for an afternoon and Wilma decided to fix it.
She took Eileen to the barn, poured kerosene in a bucket, and dipped Eileen's hair in it...all of it. E. said it didn't hurt and didn't get in her eyes. And she never had lice again. Boy was Mom ever mad, though. I mean, really.