Woman Vs Bed Bugs

There are very few things that I let get to me and one of those things are bugs. I just hate them, I am sure in the big scheme of things they are necessary but I could live with out them. What I hate worse then bugs on me is bugs on my kids, it makes me freak out. A fly landed on Connor's eye once and I flew out of my chair to "protect" him like it was life or death. I ended up scaring the crap out of both my boys.

Just the other day Tristen woke up covered in what I thought were hives on his face. When the "hives" didn't go down after a few hours I started to think that maybe they were bug bites. I had suspected bed bugs for about 6 months now because he always looked "nibbled" on after naps and in the morning but I could never find a single bug and Tristen has always had really sensitive skin. I was a little shocked when I turned over the mattress to find a ton of bed bugs.

I called Orkin and scheduled a visit to get them killed, probably the only murdering I do not find offensive. The nice southern lady gave me a list of things I needed to do to get ready for the treatment. It did not sound like alot to do (maybe it was her sweet accent that sucked me in), just wash everything in the room that I could on high heat and dry for 2 hours. Everything I could not wash bag up and put outside.

As I started to tackle my first load of laundry I realized that maybe this was going to be a much bigger project that I expected. 1 load from start to finish was going to take me 2 and 1/2 hours.... Thus far I have done 7 loads start to finish ( 17 1/2 hours worth of laundry.... I have one in the washer, 1 in the drying and 7 more loads to go. To make matters worse that is only the boys stuff. If I have to wash all of the stuff in my room I am sure that is another 17 hours of laundry. Luckily as of right now I do not have to wash all of the things in my room

Once the Orkin man showed up I heard the worst words to a budgeting stay at home mom could hear..."Ohhh this could get expensive". 3 grand to be exact. I guess there is a heat treatment where they can heat the house to 160 degrees to kill any bed bugs that might be hiding in other rooms besides Tristens room. Since we could not find any bugs other than in Tristens room we picked the "cheaper" option of 650.00 for both kids room.

Now for the next 30 days no one can go in there, no clothes, no kids, no one...this puts a huge cramp in the sleeping arrangements in our house. Tristen is now in the office in a pack and play and Connor is in our room in a pack in play. I am feeling pretty defeated by a pin sized bug

At 1pm  I thought "man I have these bed bugs beat"... Now at 8 pm I am pretty sure the bed bugs won....