Anyone who knows me and Dennis well will attest to the fact that Dennis is, shall we say, a teentsy bit OCD about cleanliness. Think Desperate Housewives' Bree on steroids.
We had to take Aaron down to southern Mass for a bio-family visit today. This would have been fine, if it weren't for the fact that we had been told that Aaron has come back from these visits in the past with, well, a bug. Several bugs, actually. In his hair.
That's all Dennis had to hear.
Before we left our house this morning, he had plotted the whole thing out:
1. We take Aaron to the visit.
2. As soon as Aaron is brought back to the car, a surgical hat goes onto his head, being careful to avoid as much contact between his hair and the rest of the car environment and us as possible. (Poor little thing.)
3. We ourselves also don surgical hats (with baseball caps over them, to make ourselves look oh-so-inconspicuous), and encourage Aaron to keep his on his head for the 50-minute ride by pointing to ourselves and saying, "Look! Funny hat! Funny hat!"
4. We drive back to Boston at lightning speed, hoping not to get stopped for (a) speeding, and (b) looking ridiculous behind the wheel of a car.
5. We stop at Walgreen's to buy RID lice shampoo. Why wouldn't Dennis have done this ahead of time? He was so paranoid about a random bug making its way onto his scalp (I'm scratching my head just thinking about it now!) that he went inside Walgreen's wearing the surgical hat to buy the shampoo. I can't imagine what the sales clerk thought.
6. We arrive at home, run up to the second floor, strip off our clothes, and all 3 jump into the bathtub, where we sit for 10 minutes with lice shampoo on our heads.
7. We rinse, towel-dry, and Dennis throws our clothing into the washing machine and hits the SANITARY WASH button (2 hours in hot water). He only ruined one garment in the process.
We are happily bug free, and even better, my hair is remarkably silky smooth.
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