Weight tracker Wednesday!

I am pretty happy today!

I worked really hard,

ran on the treadmill 5 out of seven days,

ate healthy,

stayed in my guidelines for how much to eat,

still had small sweet snacks,

still went out to eat last night with Daniel and shared a dessert!

And....



lost.....





FIVE pounds!


Woohooo!!!!

I am going shopping today!!!!

Just to Sam's club.

But for me that is exciting.

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Update on the MITES!!

Your comments have had me rolling in laughter!!!!

Thanks! It helps!

For those that asked, yes we are sure it is not bed bugs, fleas and not scabies!


It is definitely the rare rodent mite!

While we were not told we needed to "bug bomb" the house.

The paranoid side of both Daniel and I quickly decided to do it!

Right away!

So the boys went to grandmas.

Daniel and I got the house ready.

I went to the van.

Daniel turned off the pilot light on the furnace.

Started setting off bombs.

Decided we would do one in our attached garage since there were extra bombs. They come in three packs!

As he came out the back door of the garage I asked.... does the heater in the garage have a separate pilot light too?!?!?

He said, YES!

And ran back in!


Poor guy, came out coughing and doubled over in the front yard!!!!!

He was spitting and gagging and panting!!! Nearly hurled right there in the yard!

Poor guy!

The bombs are flammable! So he felt he had no choice.

Lesson learned.

He is fine now and we had a nice dinner out without the boys!!!

Came home five hours later to a fresh smelling house.

The entry showed evidence of those Japanese beetles trying to get out and meeting their death at the glass door!

Daniel found an earwig twitching as he was dying. *smile* I hate those things!!!!!!! HATE THEM!!!!

Mites, they are too small to find or see (Daniel found one while cleaning the day before and couldn't believe how small and nearly invisible they are. They are white before they suck blood, and red or black after their minute little bellies are full. Nice.) so we can only hope this is the end of our story.

Oh how I hope this is the end. PRAY this is the end.

We prayed about mites on our dinner date! ha ha! PRAYED about them!!! LOL!

I slept soooooooo good last night!

Soooo good.

THE END!!!!!! I hope.

Now time for a run!!! And watch BL that recorded last night during the bombing!!!

Part 2

Jedd has had a virus this past week. Nothing major, cough, sore throat... not enough to slow him down. But he also was complaining about bug bites. It has turned cold so I figured it was from spiders moving inside.
But they have spread. and spread and spread.
Now Russ has them, and Daniel........
Went online late last night to research what might be going on.
Guess what happens when a rodent dies and turns cold and doesn't get noticed right away?!?!?!
Little MITES unseen by the human eye crawl away and look for a new warm body to feed on!!!!!!!!!
They like people!
AND THEY ITCH!
Like crazy!
And you aren't supposed to itch them! They get worse! and worse!
So we have to load the boys up on Benadryl so they don't itch.
Will THAT slow down Jedd?

Yep!

RODENT MITES!!!!

In my house!!!!!

There will be MAJOR CLEANING!!!

MAJOR!!!
And hamster Two will soon disappear.

Where do I start?!?!?!

Hamster One seen HERE disappeared.
Three weeks later, replaced her with a new hamster.
A few days later, Jedd wakes up in the night after flicking hamster One off his face! TWICE! So he catches her.
Yep, HER! Hamster Two is a boy.
I buy cage #2.
Boy hates now cleaning TWO cages.
One day while cleaning those cages the boy discovers hamster One has died. BUT doesn't tell his mother or father as he was just told by his father... "those things are gonna die if you don't keep their cages clean!!!!"
Several days later father discovers dead hamster.
Boy confesses he has known for several days.
Hamster goes out with the trash the next day. (He was FINE with that!)
Oh.... no.... that is just the intro to the story.....
stop back tomorrow to hear it go from bad to worse!
You will never want a hamster EVER!
Okay, so some of you wouldn't have one EVER before this story.... but stay with me..... you'll wanna hear why!