What's Smaller than a Pencil Point, LOVES Blondes and Has Kept my Child Out of School Five Days?

A little parasite by the name of louse, although she prefers to be called Mrs. Lice, and she makes it very difficult for mommies to abort her offspring that seem to populate at the drop of a hat in my daughter's hair.

You know you've hit rock bottom when you find yourself at a crowded HEB grocery store on a Saturday night, frantically searching on different aisles for the fittingly-named product, RID.

As discreetly as possible, I asked a diminutive-looking HEB employee "Kerry" if she could help me find where they keep the *insert whisper* "lice medication"

. Like a bad "B" movie, Kerry proceeded to scream two aisles over to her friend, Leslie; "Hey Leslie? Where do we keep the lice treatment medications?"

And thus began the walk of shame we would repeat for the next six days, whereever we went...