Category: Hair

Looking Forward

Angelica was allowed to go to her Grade 7 Farewell/Graduation Party yesterday.

Even in light of Judah’s birth, she was still quite excited about her party that night.

hairOur story seems to go before us everywhere we go and the labor and delivery ward at Women’s Hospital doesn’t seem to be any different. There was a woman who heard about us and she offered to do Angelica’s hair. We were so touched and blessed by her thoughtfulness. Yen had just delivered a baby the day before and yet still came into my room and did a fabulous job of Angelica’s hair.

It was pretty and yet funky and not over the top. Angelica looked so beautiful.

To say Thank You to this woman seems so insignificant and yet we truly are so SO overwhelmed with gratitude and we’re not sure how to adequately express our thankfulness. Just know that we are touched and blessed beyond words. Thank you!

Angelica looked beautiful and although I didn’t go with them….Geli and her dad headed out and made it to the school around 7pm. She got to see her friends. She got her certificate and she got to dance with her friends a little. It was a great night and one that will be a fabulous memory for Gelica. We are thankful to everyone who made this night possible….from dress making, to shoe shopping, to care of the siblings, to school staff, to ones who made dinner, to the Dr’s and nurses and hospital staff……. We are thankful that every detail was taken care of and that everything ran smoothly and that it all worked out for Geli to go.

geliI have more pictures that I’d like to post, but this post is more a request for prayer than it is an update…..

Angelica is taking a few medications and one of the side effects of two of them is that it can affect her blood sugars…..Unfortunately on Wednesday night, her blood sugar levels spiked and they didn’t come down as fast as we’d like. We are now waiting for her sugar levels to level out. If you could pray that everything would work the way it should and that we’d be able to go home tomorrow, we’d really appreciate that.

There was talk of Geli going home today, but it’s not going to happen and obviously, if she’s not in a good position to go home, then we want her to stay where it’s best for her but optimally, we’d love for her to be in a good place health wise to be able to come home.

We are making steps towards a home coming tomorrow, but something else that could throw a monkey wrench into that plan would be if Geli spiked a fever between now and then…..so we are looking for

1) Blood Sugar Stabilization
2) No infections, fevers, or any other illness

Also, please pray that she’ll continue to respond amazingly to the treatment plan that they have her on and that the chemo that she’s receiving today would do it’s job of killing the cancer cells and that the side effects would not bother her.

I feel like I have TON of things to update or post about and yet…..I’m tired.

My HUGE boy wants to eat and eat and eat and eat and I got almost no sleep last night. I’m exhausted! On top of a week of very little sleep….lets just say that “exhausted” is putting it mildly.

We will make it through this season. I am confident of this and yet that doesn’t make any of this easier, does it?

It all seems so surreal and yet entirely WAY TOO REAL!

I don’t even know where to go from here and so I’m stopping for now. I’ll try to post again a bit later.

What a Surprise!

Jeremy has been growing his hair out for quite a while now.

A while ago he read that there was a world record for the tallest mohawk….the record was 56cm and Jeremy kept saying that he wanted to grow his hair out to have a 65cm mohawk.

Yesterday, Jeremy went with my youngest brother to the hairdresser.

He left looking like this……

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It was long and scraggly and although it looked really cute on him “WHEN IT WAS BRUSHED” a huge part of the time he looked HORRID. He hated brushing his hair and it ended up with massive knots and really sometimes, if we’d left it long enough….it might have just dreaded itself naturally. In fact, Jon and I talked about get his hair dreaded at some point.

He came home from his time away with Chris looking like this….

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Just ignore his “cool dude” pose…. and the crappy camera picture quality….ya get the idea. It’s SHORT!!!!!

He was so excited and kept touching his hair and trying to smooth it out. Chris and Jer had stopped at Zellers on the way home and picked up some Blue/Black hair dye and some pump gel. Jeremy must have applied about 6 different applications of the hair gel between when he came home and bed time. He went to bed with a serious helmet.

It’s very weird seeing him without the long hair, but there is something very cute about his new haircut AND…it actually makes him look older or more grown up or something. My baby boy is growing up….aaaaaaaawwwwww!

A Dash of Color

I love to update my hair.

Over the last few years, it’s been a bit more difficult to actually get out and “get” my hair done.

The last time I got it done……..June of 2009. Yah! Almost a year ago. Fortunately, my cousin…..who does my hair……is an AMAZING stylist and her cut still looked fabulous. The biggest issues that I had were that the ends needed to be trimmed (wicked split ends) and I had the MOST amazing roots. Last time I got it colored, we did a reddish color for the main part of the hair and threw in some chunks of vibrant blue that was mixed with some purple so it was a really rich looking color.

I LOVED it. What I didn’t love, was that the blue color washed out too quickly and I was just too busy (read that as lazy) to go and get it touched up.

Here is what it roughly looked like in a recent picture earlier in March…..pardon the yellow glow, but I took this pic in my bathroom and try as I might, I can’t figure out how to kill the yellow glow from my stupid bathroom lights. It’s a beautiful Oompa Loompa look, don’t you agree? You can get an idea of what the cut and length looked like and then just imagine that my hair is not quite so red……reddish, but not quite so intense.

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We went darker and shorter, and then chunk-ed in some blond pieces and then added a vibrant turquoise streak.

Here is the side view…….

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I know that we are getting closer to summer (okay, it only just became spring, but still…it’s closer than it was a month ago) and that people usually go lighter for their “spring/summer” looks, but here’s the deal…….

I am still exercising 3 times a week and so this means that I’m washing my hair 3 times a week…..I used to wash it once or twice a week. We didn’t use shampoo (just baking soda( and my hair was not greasy so I didn’t need to wash it more than that. But, I sweat like crazy and have to wash it more often now. So, knowing this I’ve done a couple o’things.

1. I went a darker color….knowing that it would wash out and fade as the sun actually started to come out more and more.

2. The turquoise color supposedly lasts longer than the pretty purple/blue color that I had last time and when it washes out it turns a prettier color as it fades. The purple/blue ended up looking quite grey at one point….NOT COOL!

3. I am going to go back in early June just before I have this baby to get the turquoise touched up.

I was thrilled to find out that I don’t have any grey hair, yet. I didn’t think I did, but my cousin confirmed it. Although it’s really not that big of a deal….it’s one of those things that I can tell myself when I’m having a “bad day”.

There are a few things that I typically do to extend the time in between hair appointments.

I don’t get streaks or highlights on the top of my head.

I find that either the stylist doesn’t usually get all the way down to the roots which means that your roots show sooner resulting in the need to get your hair done sooner or even if they do get all the way…..it grows out pretty quick and then you need to go back fairly soon and get it done again. I like to get highlights or chunks of hair that start under a top patch of hair. Yes, I realize that this is not a “normal, grows like that” look, but none of my looks are usually “normal”. It’s not that they are totally off the wall….just slightly off of normal.

I try (sometimes) to get a main color that is just slightly darker or redder than my natural color.

This way, as I wash it and as the sun bleaches it….it basically fades to something very similar to my own hair color and I can usually get away with stretching the time in between appts. (Almost a year in between appts. – well, that’s just insane).

If you use regular shampoo (we don’t, we buy some hippie shampoo which totally flies against the the fact that I use chemicals to color my hair like this…I know, I know….just call me a hypocrite!)….to buy shampoo for color treated hair TOTALLY works if you’re wanting to prolong the color.

Also…..Find some one who can really REALLY give you a good hair cut.

A good hair cut will make world of difference between hair appts. A bad hair cut won’t hold it’s shape well, but you’ll know if you get a GREAT hair cut because you can definitely stretch it out further in between appointments….you know, unless you have a short hair cut…in which case, there is no way you could stretch it out for a very long time…..but then again, you probably wouldn’t want to or need to. BUT…even with a short hair cut…if it’s a GREAT CUT, you’ll be able to stretch it out – if it’s completely necessary!

So, what are your favorite hair tips? Any favorite products or tools?

Do you like to color your hair? How often do you go and get your hair done? And, if you do get your hair colored, WHY do you get your hair colored? For fun….out of necessity? Or, if you don’t color your hair – why have you chosen not to?

Inquiring minds want to know…..okay, just me, but still – I’d love to know the answers to my questions! ‘MmmmKay?