Aquaphor

If you've ever seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding, you know that the dad thinks that Windex cures everything.  Well, imagine this is My Big Fat Croatian Life and well you'd find my dad who believes that Aquaphor cures everything. 

If I have any type of skin ailment, my dad always asks..."Did you try Aquaphor?"  And I usually try it, and most of the time the stuff does work.  So naturally, there is a very large tub of Aquaphor in our house.  I put it on bug bites, minor scrapes, my nose if I have a bad cold, Mallory for diaper rash, burns from the kitchen or straightener...there are lots of uses for Aquaphor.  In fact, I found a huge list of uses here: Aquaphor Uses.  But none compare to the one my mom told me last night....

So yesterday was our RISE assembly. I was assigned to kickball--on the field next to the woods.  And of course, when I got home I found a tick.  I haven't had a tick since I was in Girl Scouts and I had to go camping.  Yuck!  So, of course I panicked, found a pair of tweezers and called my mom.  She told me to "smother it with Aquaphor" and then pull the tick out.  She said the tick should wiggle out of it's place.  Growing up with this Aquaphor on everything mentality...I lathered up, and watched as the tick wiggled itself off of me.  I quickly picked it up with the tweezers (and ran across the street to confirm with Kim that I got the whole thing out).  Yes, another use for Aquaphor...and another Aquaphor success story for my dad's I told you so file.