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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

A New Hair Cut and More with #Linky

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Party Linky #209!

Today I'm featuring my two teenage daughters. The photo below was taken last year of the two girls. Samantha recently went on a hike in the mountains and I have just posted about it on 1camera1mom. This past weekend Jessica asked me to cut her hair. She wanted something different for her upcoming prom. It's called the Matric Farewell in South Africa and hers is just a few days away! (The school year started in the middle of January and ends around early December.) So, on Saturday I cut her hair to the style she wanted and on Sunday Samantha helped her dye it.

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Sisters: Samantha and Jessica

Jessica with her newly colored hair -
Nice 'n Easy Natural Dark Caramel Brown

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Hiking in the Mountains

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Bravo and Elphie
about friendship, responsibility and bravery

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Haircuts and More with #WW #Linky

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In the past couple of months, lots of us have had haircuts and Jessica has a new hair color. It's summertime in South Africa. Christmas is usually spent at the beach with a barbecue (called a braai) or a picnic.

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Mrs. D's New Books

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My Latest Book Blasts

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A Moat is Not a Goat

Guinevere: On the Eve of Legend

The Bravest Squirrel Drives a Race Car

The Magic of Friendship

Bash and Lucy

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Where's Her Hair? And #WW #Linky

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Samantha gets a haircut

I took this photo at the hairdresser to
try and show how much was taken off.

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Amanda when she was four

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Lovable Lobo and $100 Giveaway!

Lobo Goes to the Galapagos by C. L. Murphy

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

10 Things I Do Every Day for Amanda

I have 3 girls. My eldest, Jessica, is 14. My second daughter, Samantha, is almost 12. My youngest, Amanda, is 4. Jessica has hair like mine, brown, thick and wavy. Samantha is blond and has straight hair. Amanda is also blond and has lovely curly hair. I have a lot of fun taking pictures of Amanda’s hair.

I’ve already done a few posts about hair with cute photos of Amanda. They are listed here:

So, I thought to do something a little different. What do I do as a mom of a 4-year-old?

10 Things I do every day for Amanda:

1. I dress her every morning. (She is able to put on some of her clothes without help.)

2. I brush her hair every morning and tie it up to keep it out of her face.

3. I have her wash her hands before meals and right after coming home from preschool.

4. I bath her every day, usually after preschool and just before her nap time. (Sometimes her sister, Samantha, does this for me when I can’t.)

5. Every afternoon I put her down for a nap. (Again, her sister sometimes does this for me.)

6. I make sure she drinks water even when she doesn’t feel like it (or juice mixed with water).

7. I make sure she eats balanced meals and treats are allowed, but in moderation.

8. I tell her how special she is and that I love her.

9. I brush her teeth every night before bed. (She can’t do it properly yet, so I do it for her to protect her baby teeth from cavities.)

10. Every night, before I go to bed, I pick my sleeping girl up and take her for one last pee. (If, on the rare occasion, I go to bed early, then her dad will do it.)

5 Things I do often for Amanda:

1. I wash her hair.

2. I cut her nails.

3. I read to her.

4. I do Pinterest with her. (This is a new hobby of hers and she even has her own board.)

5. I go shopping with her. (She loves going to the mall and the grocery store.)

Yesterday, Amanda wrote some of the letters of the alphabet on paper. She did such a neat job that I thought to scan her work and share it with you. The “A” is her favorite letter, because it’s the first letter in her name.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Blame It on the Fairies!

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How does Shakespeare, fairies and knots in hair have anything to do with each other?

This is a follow-on from my previous post Knots in My Hair!

Last year, while teaching Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare to my son’s high school class, I came across a funny mention to knots in the hair. It appears in the bizarre speech made by Mercutio. He blames the fairy, Queen Mab, for putting knots in dirty hair and that once combed out, the locks are unlucky.

After years of brushing Amanda’s hair, I wouldn’t say that the locks are unlucky, but that the children are who have to endure the combing of their hair!

Here’s the quote below:

"She [Queen Mab] is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone.......
That plaits the manes of horses in the night
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes."

Wikipedia’s conclusion to this states, “Therefore, the appellation of elf lock or fairy lock could be attributed to any various tangles and knots of unknown origins appearing in the manes of beasts or hair of sleeping children.”

I also found this interesting quote on Wikipedia:

“When young children, especially girls, wake from an evening's slumber with tangles and snarls in their hair, mothers with a tradition of fairy folklore might whisper to their daughters that they had caught fairy locks or elf-locks. Faeries, they say, tangled and knotted the hairs of the sleeping children as they played in and out of their hair at night” (A Child’s Book of Faeries by Tanya Robyn Batt).

I’m so glad I’m from a modern era that understands the need to wash and that I can buy good shampoos and conditioners!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Knots in My Hair!

Amanda is playing that the dolphins are diving

in the water at South Africa's West Coast.

The kids say the funniest things and I don’t always write it down. Sometimes, I say to myself that I’ll write it down later, but then I forget. I usually just let life happen, but I’ve found that writing it down allows me the time to enjoy the moment again and again.

The other day, I came across a little note of mine that had been buried under other papers near the computer. It was a funny moment that I had had with Amanda some months back and I had completely forgotten about it. Thank goodness that I had written it down on paper and not lost it! I’ve included a short introduction to help set the scene.

Every morning, I brush Amanda’s hair and tie it up out of her face. She has lots of curls that are sometimes hard to brush. Often, she complains that I’m hurting her. I try hard not to and I apologize when it pulls. If I don’t apologize, she gets upset with me.

On this particular morning she said the funniest thing. “You’re putting knots in my hair!”

“No, I’m not. I’m brushing the knots out,” I replied.

“You are putting knots in my hair. I feel it!”

I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did. I thought to include a bit about how I edited these two photos. I edited both using PicMonkey, but I first straightened the one where Amanda is sitting with Picasa 3. I’ve included some links on these topics.

Related posts:

Girls and Hair
Kids with Animals – 8: How to Straighten a Photo in Picasa 3
Being Herself – 4: An Introduction to PicMonkey, a Free On-Line Photo Editing Program
Kids with Animals – 3: How to Edit a Photo Using PicMonkey