It's been a huge week. My hubby and I were furiously racing around getting kids in bed etc on Friday night to finally sit down and spend some time chilling out because we had hardly seen each other this week and low and behold we found a bug infestation in our house! Well it started gradually, first we noticed them in our eldest daughters bed and room. We promptly popped her into our room and began dismantling her room bit by bit. From what we could tell it looked like bedbugs. The more we read about bed bugs the more stressed we became. They nest anywhere and everywhere, you need professional bug killers, you need to HOT wash everything and dry everything in dryer. Often people just burn things or throw them out because they are so extremely difficult to get rid of. So anyway we started doing the hot wash and dry thing to try and begin the clean up process, incredibly one flippin bug made it through alive both the processes!!!!! We were feeling quite discouraged (did I mention tired?) by 2am when we realised they were in most rooms of the house and the piles of clothes and doonas bagged up kept growing. So we fell into bed for 5 hours so I could continue to dream of squishing bugs!! I should mention too that our daughter had bug bites all down her arms which is a common place bed bugs bite. I had them on my feet as I'd been in her bed the night before to settle her. (Prob upset now I think of it, because she was being eaten by those nasty critters!!!)
Anyhoo, we had found a bug inside our pillow so we were pretty worried about the bugs being inside our new mattress (our daughters was very old so we were happy to through it out).
So the next day came around very fast and we soon realised we needed help...Nana came over about lunchtime to take the girls for us and we managed to find a company to come over and spray our house. YAY. You should have seen our house...it looked like a bomb has hit it literally. You could not walk for tripping over massive 60 litre black garbage bags full of clothes, toys, doonas etc.
The bug guys were great. They said they looked very much like bed bugs but didn't think they were big enought to be bed bugs. It took them a while to decide but eventually the verdict was given...they weren't bed bugs BUT of course it was still an infestation so we had them treat the whole house. However it DID mean we didn't have to do all the washing we had originally thought so PRAISE GOD. But since a lot of the stuff was mixed in with dirty clothes, half washed half dried, some still had bugs in it...it still meant for a bit of fun at the good old Luandrette. Now there's a place that I don't frequent very often! So we came home yesterday afternoon to our house that was bug free had very literally been soaked form wall to ceiling! Yep...all the walls, floors, mattresses, couches everything!!! By about 9pm last night after drying out the house it was pretty much all back to normal....what a huge evening it was though putting the clothes away, the rooms back to normal, and thinking man if we were tired Friday night, we are EXHAUSTED now!!!
So how grateful do you think I was when we fell into bed and realised we could have a sleep in this morning because the kids were staying at Nana's house?! YEEHA! Plus, my grat is for the fact they were NOT bedbugs but just very gross bugs that could be killed easily and for the fact that the bug people could come out on the day we called them!
Most of all my grat is that THEY ARE ALL GONE NOW!!!!!
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