I Am So Over My Hair

******Edited: I made up my mind!!! See below.*****

What do you do with your hair on a daily basis?

If you have longish hair (shoulder length or more)....what do you usually do with it? I am so tired of the 2 or 3 ways I wear my hair every single day.

I've read all the links on Ladies Against Feminism and I really don't have a desire to learn to do styles from the early 1900s anyway. As if I could. Oh I think some of them are lovely but what I would really need is a personal hairdresser.

I am CONVINCED that if I only had a personal hair and make-up person that I could look perfectly smashing every day.

And that profile picture of me over there? Yeah. It's from nearly 3 years ago. FYI my hair is half-way down my back and I have bangs, although not severe Kindergarten bangs, you know?

What do I do?????

Before. Bored with my lifeless do.

After. Now I have sprung to life again!!!Thanks everyone! ;)

A Chance to Start Over

I usually get up to make S a lunch and iron his clothes. Today I only had to iron clothes so I went back to bed when I was through. Even though I had only been up for 10 minutes or so I could already tell I was in a BAD mood. I was already praying less than 5 minutes after I got up because nearly my first thought was a grumpy, selfish one.

It worked. I slept late and felt SO good when I woke up. I don't know why I needed that extra sleep but I did. Sometimes you just need to start the day over.

Sweetheart was nearly in tears 4 or 5 times within the first hour of school. Girlfriend was having a bad day. I told her to take a break and go brush her hair (which should have been done before school but I overlooked that) and to please fix me a Dr. Pepper. Little Bit called out "And get me some apple juice!" on Sweetheart's way out of the room. She cheerfully said, "OK" as she left.

A few minutes later she came back in the room with a beautiful teacup filled with room temperature iced tea for me and orange juice for her sister. Um. How sweet. And how NOT what we asked for. I thanked her, but I did have to bring up the listening skills. I told her if she was a waitress, she would be fired. More almost tears.

So I sent her to do some independent math practice on the computer. Perhaps some time alone would help. More almost tears.

I sent her back to bed.

I went back in the homeschool room to work with Little Bit and it occurred to me that a great opportunity was at hand. So I excused myself and went to talk to Sweetheart, who was laying on her bed holding a teddy bear and frowning.

We talked about starting our day with God. About how we need to ask Him for help. About how He cares how our day is going. I could have prayed with her....but I leaned towards encouraging her relationship with God.

She came back several minutes later. Her day got better. She told me later she was sure glad she had asked God to help her.

And I'm sure glad I had the chance to help her during her bad day. It breaks my heart to think of her at school having a day like that.

And all my wistful thinking about having 5 hours alone to myself like my friend whose daughter started Mother's Day Out today is gone.

Well, almost. Five hours would be pretty sweet. But I'm glad today that I didn't have that.

The Truth

I have a blob of stuff in my kitchen floor because I swept but can't find the dust pan. So I just set the broom up beside it. It's kind of like art.

We haven't eaten many meals at the table in the last few weeks because I've had my sewing machine set up there making stuff for the booth. I KNOW I have a "sewing room" but it's too crowded and junked up to work in very well. It's a really small space. Sigh.

The homeschool room is not exactly looking "picked up" at the end of every day. I sent the girls in there to straighten it up this afternoon and they totally did except somehow they didn't notice the 15 or 20 items and pieces of paper on the floor.

There is an extra chair sitting in the kitchen right now. We got it out to have extra seats at Sweetheart's birthday party and for the life of me, I can't remember where it was sitting before that. So we just sort of keep pushing it around from place to place when it is in our way. I know. Not many of you could live like that. I have what we call "special abilities."

It's sort of amazing what I can step over, around, and ignore.

Fess up, my unorganized friends. Tell me the truth about your house.

Facebook is Ruining My Ability to Blog

I started this blog because I had a lot to say and I needed a place to say it! Facebook, however, allows me to give one or two sentence updates on my oh so terribly exciting life. So, my brain doesn't get as clogged up. Am I even capable of writing an entire post anymore? Hmm. Guess we'll have to do a list today. It's more brain-friendly.

• I still have an on-going struggle to protect my time at home and my most important jobs--helper to S and keeper of this home. There is CONSTANTLY something else to get involved in. But I firmly believe that if I participate in other things to the neglect of my husband, children, and home....then I have done wrong. It's a delicate, delicate balance.

• Husband and I have opened a craft booth at a local craft and antique mall. We've been really busy building (him) and sewing (me) to get enough stuff to put on our tiny little shelf. We got it all set up on Monday and now, if anything should happen to sell, we would have a big, gaping hole on the shelf. So, we've still got work to do. I'm really hoping we can make some money doing this. At least it's work we can do at home.

• Sweetheart found the coolest book ever at the library yesterday about "how to be a detective." She's set up a detective agency in the closet of the playroom and is nearly open for business. You can't write this kind of stuff into the lesson plans! She spent her whole day reading that book yesterday as well as several Encyclopedia Brown mysteries. She's also been assembling her detective kit. Today she plans to read the newspaper to see what kinds of crime has been happening in our city. It seems her interests have superseded my theme planning! I love it.

• Mrs. June had the best post up recently that I spent several hours reading. (You know, with 500 interruptions it tends to take awhile.) It really was good! The first part is appalling, but not surprising. The second part was very encouraging. Also, have you heard of The Exodus Mandate? I know many people are not ready to take such a radical stance, but I have to agree that Christian parents need to seriously consider their education choice--not just blow it off. It's a serious thing with consequences and should be prayed about and considered carefully. Unlike me who just sent my kid off to public school Kindergarten without a single thought. Never even considered an alternative. It's just what you DO, right? Well....I think differently now. Check out the quote from John Wesley on Mrs. June's post. Wow!

Well, I better get busy. I'm going to work really hard today to think and come up with a whole entire post that is on the same topic. I know. I treat you so well, reader. You are so welcome.

Have a great day!

Out of Your Control

So, I just heard about this speech that will addressed to our nation's school children on Tuesday. Did you hear about this?

This article was the first one that caught my eye when I googled it.

But a line from this article got me. Here's the line:

"Reached Wednesday, Greer said that if the speech is simply a feel-good message about the importance of education, he doesn't object to that. But he said he doesn't trust Obama to stick to those points and said the president should not address children unless parents can review the speech ahead of time."

Um, do parents review everything said to their children ahead of time? Since when do parents get that privilege? It's a valid concern, but....what is the health teacher saying to your kids? What is your child's history teacher saying to them? How can you entrust your kids to public school and then want to see what is going to be said to them ahead of time?

It doesn't work like that.