Abe had a tick. Burrowed into his chest. Thoroughally attached. I had a Mommy Madness Moment. You know when you scream, dance around in a circle, call your husband and are Completely Undone. Then following the Male Advice of my Hubster I took a match to my son's tick attached to his chest. After living through three screaming people, eight matches and a very minute blister on my son I killed the tick. However the insect was still Very Attached.
After another phone call to the Hubster, who humbly apologized that matches are now no longer viable methods (I had previously discovered this fact 10 seconds earlier), he instructed me on the tweezer method followed by hydrogen peroxide cleansing. Mr. Tick's death, celebrated by all present, passed well obseved.
As Abe sat on the counter of the bathroom his tear glistening eyes shone, "I am so brave."
"So brave, honey, you are so brave."
"Brave like a fighter airplane pilot."
That would not have been my chosen simile for this particular situation however one does not argue with a three year old to whom you've just held a smoldering match. Overall he felt it was an exciting adventure and was overwhelmingly thankful for the removal of the Poisenous Attached Insect.
As an after thought observation, it is rather lonely living in a country where no one knocks on the door to find out what all the drama is about (we were all superbly vocal). I would have had someone or some-two or some-six visiting to "check-in" if we had been in India.
After another phone call to the Hubster, who humbly apologized that matches are now no longer viable methods (I had previously discovered this fact 10 seconds earlier), he instructed me on the tweezer method followed by hydrogen peroxide cleansing. Mr. Tick's death, celebrated by all present, passed well obseved.
As Abe sat on the counter of the bathroom his tear glistening eyes shone, "I am so brave."
"So brave, honey, you are so brave."
"Brave like a fighter airplane pilot."
That would not have been my chosen simile for this particular situation however one does not argue with a three year old to whom you've just held a smoldering match. Overall he felt it was an exciting adventure and was overwhelmingly thankful for the removal of the Poisenous Attached Insect.
As an after thought observation, it is rather lonely living in a country where no one knocks on the door to find out what all the drama is about (we were all superbly vocal). I would have had someone or some-two or some-six visiting to "check-in" if we had been in India.
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