I haven't written much for a while.  We have been on a new adventure for awhile..  My husband is a little over half-way through a 40-day lay off.  It came as a surprise....but God has been so good.  Thankfully we had money saved aside to buy a bigger house....and we hadn't bought it yet....  Also, our church body have really been a blessing.  They gave money and food to three families in our church that had been laid off.  It was a Great Christmas present.    This time-off has been a blessing in many ways.  My children are probably going to have a hard time when dad goes back to work!  It has been great to hand him a math lesson...or see the house cleaner because he helped!

His dad gave the kids all money for Christmas.  The children voted and decided to put their money together so we could go to an indoor waterpark.  We are scheduled to go on Sunday!  They are soo excited.  We only have one little hiccup in the plan... The next part is not for the squeamish....we visited some ex-Amish friends of ours on Sunday.  The kids all went sledding and we had a great time.  Then on Thursday....we noticed that our 4 year old had nits in her hair!   ugh.....the dreaded word....LICE.   We had what I considered a bad case of lice exactly 2 years ago after this same child played with the same family at a church potluck. We had NEVER had it before even when I did daycare!   We have no proof that it was from them....but considering we haven't been anywhere else, everything has been canceled around here due to the extreme cold....it seems pretty suspicious!   Thankfully, we seem to have caught it VERY Quickly.  We haven't found any bugs....just nits on her, and no one else.  It made us panick, however, as we can't cancel our trip now without losing all our Christmas money!  So we have done extreme laundry and everything else we could....and saw nothing today.  So if we still see nothing tomorrow we are going on Sunday.   Of course we have to keep checking everyone everyday for another week, mostly because I am paranoid!   Sigh.  We just can't have an uneventful time at our house! 

So....what would you do?  We love this family.  The are excommunicated Amish who are born-again believers.  They have 11, soon to be 12 children. They are a lot of fun to be with. BUT.....I just can't bear to hang out with them knowing that we could get lice from them again!  How can a person politely ask someone if they have lice b4 they visit?  Or am I forever doomed to only visit them when we can be outside in the summer...and constantly tell their children not to pick up my little kids?   Ugh, again. 

Well.....we are praying that we caught everything soon enough....and that we can still have our fun and NOT lose over $200....something we just can't afford to do with my dh layed off.....and my children would be heart broken over.

Carylee