Last night, I finally made some lavender room spray and some disinfectant spray (At least according to a blog I read, my husband is more skeptical. I'll have to do some more research.) So I was feeling pretty fantastic this morning- spraying them all over the house and cleaning.
Then it happened. Little Man had some bumps crop up yesterday. First thought- mosquito bites. Which was disturbing, but I mean what do you do? Then my Dad came over, and he said they looked like flea bites. I thought, "No, way." We don't have pets in the house.
After my Dad left, I found a very small flea. On Little Man!
Well, I researched online and found out that you don't need to have indoor pets or even pets to get fleas in your house. That's just one of the perks of living in the country. Apparently, the flea can jump really far, snag onto you, and follow you right into the house. So there they are- unwanted and uninvited.
I have to say that panic was my first thought, and it was probably mostly due to my scouring of info from the web. I had this picture of a huge infestation of fleas in our home that I would be unable to control. One site suggested putting baking soda or Borax on your carpet, leaving for several hours, and then vacuuming. I had both (the only reason I have Borax is because I'm getting ready to make my own detergent), but I chose to use baking soda, as I have more of that.
While I was in the midst of going crazy, I heard a strange clinking noise- I checked on Little Man happily hanging out in his high chair eating some blue cheese and then kind of just went about my business. When I went back into the kitchen a few minutes later, I found out what that noise was- frozen blueberries tumbling out of a bag that I'd forgotten on the counter. And now they were all over the floor. Ugh. What a mess!
After that (thankfully, only one carpeted room in the house), vacuuming all our furniture, cleaning up my blueberry mess, and washing all bedding/getting rid of all laundry in the hampers I am happy to report that Little Man has not had any more bites.
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