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May 192011
May 192011
Every year, for at least the past 10 years, we have been nastily blessed with ticks. These nasty lyme disease causing bugs are just that! Nasty! Needless to say, the past 3 or 4 years we have been getting increasingly infested by these bugs and this year by far…has been the worst so far.
Ticks began to show up around our area (southern NH) about a month and a half ago. My animals have to be treated with a good flea and tick treatment and us humans…we have to check our bodies all the time. About three weeks ago, I pulled off a good size tick from my daughter’s fathers back. Not long after that, I was removing another near his neck. Yesterday, I was in the shower and discovered a black spot on my breast. Not sure what it was because I couldn’t see clearly w/out my glasses…and I wasn’t touching either…I called Paul in to look at it. Sure enough…it was a nasty tick. I have pulled several off my cats in the past few weeks despite the tick treatment (they stick to the animal and will die on them). I walked 25 ft. to my car last weekend…got in it drove around the block to get the dog…came back…walked back into the house and what was crawling in my hair? A tick!
Well tonight…my daughter comes out to me and says, “Mom…can you check me for ticks?” I asked why. She says, “I found one crawling on me and I panicked and flipped it off in the bedroom.” I asked where in the bedroom…which happened to be MY bedroom….she says, “I’m not sure if I sent it towards the TV or towards the big bureau.” Fabulous I am thinking…just fabulous! So, I check her, go in my room looking for the tick…it’s no where to be found! I asked how big of a tick it was…she told me it was a big one…not the one like she found on a kitten two days ago which was a pin head size. So, in my bedroom somewhere a tick is living there for free!
Well…since my daughter’s room is in the process of a good spring cleaning…she’s been sleeping with me.
Take a look at how she went to bed tonight:
Yes, you see correctly! She’s got on a long sleeve turtle neck, sweat pants and a winter knitted hat that covers the neck. At one point, she was duck taping the sleeves and cuffs of the pants to her body…aye yup. She tossed that thought out for around the wrists but she still may have purple duck tape around her ankles still.
Ticks can make us humans very sick. Two years ago, I thought I had gotten bit by a flea under my bra strap. I saw the little bugger and didn’t give it a second thought as to being anything other than a flea (our home is in a sandy area so we have to do flea control all summer). Anyway, I kept itching the area and thought the redness in the area was from my scratching. About two months down the road, over-night the redness tripled in circumference over night. I was feeling very hot and was very sweaty..sweat was just pouring off my skin. My MIL had come to visit and said you don’t look good…we’re going to the walk-in clinic. Once there, a nurse looked at the area and said to the doctor…it looks like a tick bite to me. He said…I do believe you are correct. I was then informed I had second stage lime disease. I was give two anti-biotics that I had to take for quite some time and then revisit my primary care physician.
For those of you who may not know…Lyme Disease progresses in three stages. If not caught before progressing to the third stage, it can cause devastating effects to your body.
My favorite part about finding a tick…is burning it with a lighter or match! They blow up (you can hear it as it does) and let me tell you…that works for me!
May 192011
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May 152011
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Hope you all have a great Sunday!
May 122011
I wrote a post a while back on how much our family uses the Kids Bowl Free Program during the summer months. Go here to read that post if you’d like a refresher on what I wrote.
Well, I just got notification registration is now open…for just the kids and for the family pass. I am ecstatic! My daughter’s grandfather has asked me…I don’t know how many times…if it’s time to sign up again! He wants to purchase the family pass. I’m telling ya, the man truly should own stock at our local bowling center. He’s bowling two nights a week this summer on leagues and skies out whenever he can to get a few strings in. His wife will send him to the store and he’ll be gone for hours! Now that the program is up and running, he’ll be asking me if he can pick my daughter up after school so he can take her bowling…just so he can bowl two strings at no cost for either of them (they own their own shoes).
For the $25 fee for the Family Pass…it’s money well spent. Our bowling center charges $3.50 a string. So if Pa and Abby were to bowl just twice all summer using this program…he’s gotten his money back. Since they bowl more like…3 times a week using this program…he saves at least $500. But don’t forget…4 adults can be on the family pass. So, the savings can be even more for a family. Several times during the summer, all four family members and my daughter, will go using this same pass. And then there are times, when my daughter and her cousin will go w/o Pa. The savings really adds up.
Here’s the deal for signing up before Sunday 5/15/11:
Adding the Kids Bowl Free Family Pass to your account will allow up to 4 adults in your family to receive 2 FREE Games of bowling each day this summer too. Using the family pass just a time or two will prove to be a great value for your family. Plus, if you add the family pass before this Sunday you’ll receive a $25.00 Restaurant.com Gift Code too. (Taken from my email notification)
Did you know this about bowling?
So there you have it. Bowling can be quite the way to exercise without sweating like a pig.
Okay…so now the beginning of my today has been made, and I have shared it all with you (thank you)…I am off to watch Law and Order SVU, then off to sleep. Have a great day everyone!
Well, I just got notification registration is now open…for just the kids and for the family pass. I am ecstatic! My daughter’s grandfather has asked me…I don’t know how many times…if it’s time to sign up again! He wants to purchase the family pass. I’m telling ya, the man truly should own stock at our local bowling center. He’s bowling two nights a week this summer on leagues and skies out whenever he can to get a few strings in. His wife will send him to the store and he’ll be gone for hours! Now that the program is up and running, he’ll be asking me if he can pick my daughter up after school so he can take her bowling…just so he can bowl two strings at no cost for either of them (they own their own shoes).
For the $25 fee for the Family Pass…it’s money well spent. Our bowling center charges $3.50 a string. So if Pa and Abby were to bowl just twice all summer using this program…he’s gotten his money back. Since they bowl more like…3 times a week using this program…he saves at least $500. But don’t forget…4 adults can be on the family pass. So, the savings can be even more for a family. Several times during the summer, all four family members and my daughter, will go using this same pass. And then there are times, when my daughter and her cousin will go w/o Pa. The savings really adds up.
Here’s the deal for signing up before Sunday 5/15/11:
Adding the Kids Bowl Free Family Pass to your account will allow up to 4 adults in your family to receive 2 FREE Games of bowling each day this summer too. Using the family pass just a time or two will prove to be a great value for your family. Plus, if you add the family pass before this Sunday you’ll receive a $25.00 Restaurant.com Gift Code too. (Taken from my email notification)
Did you know this about bowling?
1. Bowling just 2 Games with a couple of your friends completes 40 of your 60 minutes of physical activity for a day.
2. Like walking with free weights it works a lot of muscle groups not normally exercised.
3. Bowling 2 games results in walking around a half a mile.
4. Bowling 2 games can burn between 320 – 580 calories!
5. Bowling 2 games exercises 184 muscles while swinging around 576lbs!
So there you have it. Bowling can be quite the way to exercise without sweating like a pig.
Okay…so now the beginning of my today has been made, and I have shared it all with you (thank you)…I am off to watch Law and Order SVU, then off to sleep. Have a great day everyone!
May 122011
Don’t Fret the Sweat, an online resource brought forward by Unilever, who are the makers of Degree, Dove and Suave deodorant is offered to help support you and your children during the pre-tween and tween years.
Personally, I cannot understand why parents find it so hard to talk to their kids about how their body changes as they come into puberty especially during today’s times. The whole process is so very natural, and each one of us experiences these bodily changes whether we want to or not. I feel it’s a parents job to educate their children on the process, as if we can bring these kids into the world, then we should have to be held responsible for teaching them about their bodies, just as if we would teach them their manners.
Unfortunately, not every one feels the way I do, nor do they even care about their kids’ bodies maturing and will leave their children hanging…having no clue. And sure, many schools will teach the kids these important facts, but it’s really not their job to do so. But then their are parents like my ex. sister-in-law to be, who won’t talk to her children; nor, will she allow them to take part in what the school offers. So then what? How do these kids learn before they are embarrassed or humiliated by someone?
Life is hard enough that we don’t need to complicate it further for our kids. Kids can be cruel and the last thing I would want is to have some kid tell my daughter she smells. She’s known from a very young age (curiosity) why one uses deodorant. She knows there are deodorants for teens, women and men. And it cracks me up that she has a fetish for the travel size deodorants over the full size ones (it’s okay w/me as long as the deodorant works and it’s being used)….whatever trips her trigger! In fact, I have educated her on all the facts she will need at this stage in her life, and then some.
However, should there be a need, I can direct myself or even my daughter to Facebook.com/DontFretTheSweat page and you can too. The page is designed to help one choose the right deodorant, to getting expert advice, and more. If you haven’t had the chance to check out the page, I encourage you to do so. Allow yourself to be an informed parent, just in case the need was to ever arise, where this resource could come in handy.
*Disclaimer…I was not compensated for this post and all opinions are my own.