Today was “crazy hair” day at school for the kids. I’ve been waiting for the school to do this! For several years now I’ve seen examples of crazy hair days in my black hair groups, but our school never did anything like that. As it turned out, it was scheduled for a day I needed to work which was going to make things a little more cramped, time wise. I ended up getting up 40 min. early just to make sure that we had enough time. It was worth it, though. The girls told me they got plenty of compliments at school today and that their principle told them that “The Heywood girls took crazy hair day to a whole new level!” They kind of had an advantage – a creative mom and thick, wiry hair that doesn’t ever fall down. Although, to be honest, most of my creativity was Pinterest-inspired. I had intended for Lizzie to have braids sticking out from the side of her head and I had really detangled and stretched out her hair last night in preparation for that. But the second I got those
Surviving early and unexpected widowhood, single parenting, adoption, special needs parenthood...I cover it all as I muse on the unexpected twists and daily minutia of my life. It's also a place where I can publicly echo the words of the psalmist in Psalm 40:2, "He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings."