Friday Fragments

Link up with Mrs. 4444 if ye be fragmentin' today!

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I've got thoughts pouring out of my head like crazy right now, so I hope I can get them all down here before I forget some. I'm sure I will, though; some always escape. But where to begin? At the end, I think.

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Thursday, after a week or 10 days of being seriously ill, I finally felt well enough to finish testing the kids for their end-of-year homeschooling proof of progress submission. I did the math tests with all three kids individually, as opposed to Language Arts, which I managed to run more or less simultaneously, so they could concentrate better. Each missed 2 or 3 answers at most, so overall they did extremely well, and I'm very happy, proud, and pleased to be finished!!

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I got them each an m&m cookie from 7-11 as a quick reward for finishing and doing well, but tomorrow will be the real reward. Depending on the weather, we're going to hit the beach for the first time this summer! If it rains, then my back-up plan is melting all our (TONS OF) broken crayons down into new, fun ones. We're just going to use simple muffin tin this time around - no fun shapes - because we've never done it before, but I'm excited to finally make use of all those broken pieces they don't deem fit to use!

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My CPU bit the bucket earlier this week, and of course I didn't have all my files backed up, so I'll be stressed about that until I get a technician of some sort to retrieve them for me. Do you back up regularly? I don't. I just can't be bothered, and then I kick myself every time something like this happens. Of course. It's so me.

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Speaking of being sick, I went to the hospital Friday, Monday and Tuesday mornings for various procedures. My entire GI tract is all messed up and revolting against its owner at the moment. I admit, I spent a week wearing (and very necessarily so) adult diapers because of it. That wasn't fun, and now that I'm back in my own undies (thank you, Imodium, for finally kicking in), I am relishing the joy! ;P

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I finally went to the doc on one of those days and got the prescription lice treatment from the kids' pediatrician, and guess what? They are STILL alive in Chloë's hair. So I did something rather drastic and chopped about 8" off, which was traumatic for her, but far less than the head-shaving I was (semi-seriously) threatening. She went from this:

to this:

The next day, when she saw how cute (and easy to take care of) it was, she felt much better about it. I think it makes her look soooo much younger! Do you?

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I cut her sister's hair (and my bangs, lol) while I was at it:

I've since straightened hers up a little bit, but I think she also looks cute and younger than she did before, with the shorter 'do.

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Three packages came in the mail today, including some new shirts we bought for Rob's retirement days starting in a few months, a bunch of Jafra goodness for various clients and me, and this:

Lovely yarn for a project a friend has commissioned from me. I can't say much more than that about it at the moment, but I'll show you the finished works when I can! It's always exciting when good fiber shows up in the mail!

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Well, I'll leave you with this image snapped by Rob for my license plate project, since I lost all the ones I had captured in the CPU debacle:

I don't know why eleventy-nine % of the picture is pavement - that crazy hubs!

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Well, I hope you all have a lovely weekend, and I apologize being bad about responding to comments and getting around to other fragmenters (always, but especially lately). It's been a bad time with whatever's goin' on in mah belleh, y'all. Hope you forgive me.

Fin.

Comments

[Mrs4444]

The haircuts are adorable and trendy-cute!

Sorry about your health issues.

Because I use Google Drive/Docs for all of my files, if my computer dies, I'll never lose them. I would lose photos, though, as I mostly keep them on my computer. I normally back those up a couple of times a year and have doubles on Facebook.

Good job on the homeschooling success!!!
Thanks for linking up. Have a great weekend.

[Smellyann]

Sorry for the confusion - my husband is retiring from the US Navy after 20 years, in a few months. He'll be 40, so another career will come after that. ;)

Glad you like the 'cuts!

~melanie

[Laurie]

I am confused a bit too about retirement and little kids in the same house. I don't know the backstory I guess. I do know that long hair and lice are a very difficult combination. I like the haircuts.

[Nancy]

The Superhero and I both understand that long sickness! He had pneumonia and I had bronchitis. I think we had the upper and you had the lower! Glad you're so much better!

Hate lice, but the haircuts are so cute!

[lisleman]

I don't browse by here often enough to follow some of your fragments but I have been here for other past FF posts. "...shirts we bought for Rob's retirement days ..." and the young kids have me a little confused. Your husband can retire with kids still at grade school age? I'm just expressing my confused so don't even feel you need to answer.
I would hate to deal with lice. I have heard lice are mostly annoying and not very dangerous. all the best.

[Jessica]

Here's a better lice treatment that worked on my oldest daughters thick thick hair when she was younger and unfortunate enough to get lice.
Soak her scalp and hair with Listerine(mouthwash) and cover with a shower cap for an hour. Rinse out with water. Then soak hair and scalp with white vinegar and cover with a clean shower cap for another hour. Rinse with water.

Then shampoo with Denorex(its a strong dandruff shampoo that lice hate). Then comb through carefully with a nit comb.
The Listerine and white vinegar suffocate the live lice, and start to dissolve their exoskelatines, and also loosen the glue that the nits are attached to the hair shaft with. The lice also hate Denorex, and it acts as a preventative.

Good luck.

[wayne]

Hope you are feeling better! good luck with those tests.

[Mary]

Her hair looks really cute! Belly problems are no fun; no fun at all. Hope you start feeling better!