7 Quick Takes

Do you cut your children’s hair? I do. Well, I don’t cut E-Age-11’s hair because Siah does that, but I cut everyone else’s. As the girls are getting older, their hair is getting thicker and thicker, and it’s harder to cut than when they had baby-fine hair and a trim took two seconds. I get especially confused because I have fine, curly hair, while they have straight, thicker hair {Daughter A.’s hair is especially thick}. My sweet friend Nancy introduced me to Hair 101 with April on You Tube and I am so excited! These tips are exactly what I needed to take it to the next level.

I’ve been dusting off my teaching reading blog. A year or two ago, the readers over there started requesting that I turn it into an ebook because that would make it easier to navigate. I agreed in theory, but in practice that sounded like a lot of work that I didn’t have the mental energy or time to do. I decided that this is the year for that project, and I’m pretty excited about it.

Curly Girl: The Handbook by Lorraine Massey {affiliate link}

I own a book that says that, for those of us who have curly hair, there is no such thing as a bad hair day. This book is called Curly Girl: The Handbook and it really did help me make my peace with having curl in my hair.

However, comma.

That bit about not having bad hair days? The author obviously did not see me this past Saturday morning.

And that’s all I’ll be saying about that.

A week ago, our weather was worth bragging about. It was perfect, spring-like weather. My apple trees were beginning to leaf out, and I even saw a few blooms on two of them. But yesterday, the wind kicked up. Oh, how it blew and blew. Because it has been so long since we’ve seen even a drop of rain, the air was full of dust. It was horrible. In fact, we had to cancel our co-op because even today, outside is no place to be.

We are praying for rain.

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I was looking through some old photos and realized that I never shared pictures of O’s fifth birthday lego cakes back in August…so here you go:

We’re building a mother-in-law quarters on our property. This is something we’ve talked about doing off and on for a long time, ever since we moved in. We’re finally taking the plunge. I’m a little nervous, mostly about having construction and kidding goats and children all sharing the space at once. I’m sure it’ll work out in the end.

Either that or you’ll find me in a sanitarium somewhere wearing a very stylish straight jacket.

Ahem.

We were supposed to break ground today, but I assume that, due to the wind, it’ll be next week.