Two Miracles

Two miracles or blessings happened to us this week.  First off, not to gross you out, but during church last Sunday right after we sat down for Sacrament, Abby climbed onto my lap and as I was looking at the top of her head, I saw a louse crawl across the top.  I had spent about 5 minutes on her hair just a few hours before braiding it into a crown all the way around her head...why couldn't I have seen them then.  Well, or course I then see all the eggs and realize why our head have been itching for the past two weeks!  I just about lost it and as I leaned over to Brian to explain what I just saw, Abby started to cry and was asking, "what mom, what's in my hair..."  I picked Abby up and walked out of church and Brian followed.  My head was crawling and itching all at the same time.  I was about to loose it, ok, I did loose it.  Now that is all over, the 20 plus loads of laundry, fine combing four times, hair blow drying, pesticide, vacuuming, bagging, bed stripping, etc. I can see the blessing of me discovering it when I did.  Brian was off that whole week and we already had a three day trip planned.  We notified a few of the girls' friends who had been over playing dress-up in the past few weeks and it ended up backfiring on us a bit.  Word spread in the neighborhood and my girls were called lice-head and told that they couldn't play with certain kids.  They were treated like they had the plague.  I am ok with not having your child play with mine, but to have them yelling names at them...I didn't have to inform them of the problem...it was a bit hard!  People didn't want to come over or associate with us, we missed two Sundays, etc.  It was such a blessing that Brian was home and we were able to just hang out together as a family.  This would have been a lot harder if Brian was working and everyone was avoiding us.  Plus we left the house for a few days, long enough for any lice to die!  I know it's gross, but I love what one friend said, "it's not if you are going to get lice, but when."  Most kids get it from school.  I knew we might get it some day, but I still freaked out!!!  Brian kept saying "this isn't that bad.  I have seen way worse things at the hospital".  I know it's not deadly, but it's still embarrassing, time consuming, and really hard to get rid of!!!!  Anyway, I am just so glad it was during Brian's week off, so it wasn't so hard and he could help.  

Next story happened today.  I was at Costco and I got out to the car after shopping and looked at my bag where I always clip my keys and nothing.  My keys were missing.  I looked at the front seat to see if I could see my keys and they weren't there.  Then I looked at the ignition and there they were!!! Brian was at work and was working all night and is the only one with a spare key to my car, no one we know has a car big enough to fit their kids and mine, I could pay to have it opened...I was about to freak out when the car next to ours pulls up and this older gentleman rolls down his window and asks if we have a key box with a spare under our car.  I tell him no and he then proceeds to get out and say he might be able to open it...he has some tools.  He then pull out a massive bunch of slim jims and proceeded to open my car door.  I waited only 5 minutes from the time I noticed my keys locked in the car to when this man opened my door.  I gave him a hug and thanked him profusely.  I mentioned to the girls that this was truly a miracle and that Heavenly Father is looking out for us.  I said, "We need to have a prayer and thank Heavenly Father."  Abby then said, "I better say it so that you can drive."  She then said a beautiful prayer and we drove home grateful to the man who claimed he had broken into many cars back in the day:-)  I don't know if I was suppose to take him seriously or not, but with his skills and the amount of slim jims he carried in his trunk, I wouldn't put it past him:-)  Just 20 minutes before this happened I saw a woman parked with her hood up and some jumper cables out front.  I pulled into the Bank where she was parked and asked if she needed a jump.  She did and I was able to help her.  I guess what goes around comes around.