If it ain't broke...

Don't fix it.

Technically,  I already broke my New Year's resolution to post every day. Really, I didn't. Yesterday was the day from hell.

We've battled lice four times this year. Ain't that grand.

So finally, I decided this was the last time this year that I was going to deal with it.  The shampoos just didn't seem to be working anymore, so I went to battle with an old home remedy. Vaseline and shower caps.

This thrilled my kids to no end. Helping me clean the house while fashionably modeling plastic shower caps was an awesome way to spend the day!

Complaints of "my head is sweating!" and "why does my head weight 10lbs?" rang throughout the day.

This remedy is awesome! No chemicals, no burning scalps, just lots and lots of icky, sticky Vaseline.

What I didn't think about was....how the hell do you get Vaseline out of hair?!?!

I thought it would be easy. Just use some dish soap and viola! No more Vaseline!

Yeah, NOT!

But, thanks to Google, I did find something that works. Olive oil. Yup olive oil breaks down petroleum jelly so that you can wash it out with dish soap. Still don't get how putting oil on your hair makes it easier to remove another type of oil, but that's why I'm a blogger and not a scientist!

So today is going to be filled with Dawn showers to get the rest of the olive oil out, but the good news....no more bugs!

Oh, and laundry until kingdom come...

Exterminator extraordinaire, signing off!

~Kim