Guess Who's Coming Home?

My dear little Shih Tzu! I guess you're saying so what, so I'll explain the story. My little pooch who I affectionately call "Ludie Bell" hasn't lived with me in over four years. When I got married the husband didn't want my baby to come live with us so my dad took him in. After my dad passed my cousin kept him for me until I got my dad's affairs taken care of. I told the husband that I needed my pooch because he's the last thing that my dad & I shared. He's not happy about it but he'll get over it because Ludie's coming home!

Those of you who aren't dog lovers probably don't understand but he's my baby & I can't wait to pick him up. I've had a dog every since I was a young girl. My dad bought me a poodle after my mom passed away when I was just six years old & he lived for sixteen years! A couple of years later my dad bought another poodle named Nuggets & he lived about 15 years. During the time we had Nuggets I bought Ludie Bell for my daughter, she was six or seven at the time. Ludie is now ten I know we only have a short time left with him so my husband will just have to deal with him being home. I promised the husband that I'll take extra care to keep Ludie clean & fresh smelling & I promised to not let him mess up the yard. LOL

Just a quick word on the locs. I promise an update is coming soon! I'm 5 1/2 months locked now. I can tell that they are thickening up quite nicely & it's even more easy to hide my thin area in the crown of my head. I've taken pics so they will soon follow.

Be Blessed!

Saying Goodbye

Saying Goodbye

On Wednesday January 14, 2009 I had to say goodbye to my best friend, my father. My dad was my everything, my superhero. He was the epitome of "Mr. Fix-it"! Dad could fix anything as minor as changing oil in a car to rewiring an entire house! In his profession he was a chef. He made the best cakes on earth & his ribs were off the chain! I wish I would have paid more attention in the kitchen while he was in there working his magic. My dad had a love for entertaining people. He wouldn't let you come to his home & not have something good to eat and drink with some good jazz playing in the background.

Writing this today is therapy for me, you have no idea the pain I feel right now. I would talk to my dad everyday even if it was only a five minute conversation to make sure he was ok. I know I will get through this with God's help but it's just really tough right now. I am an only child and he was my only surviving parent. My mom passed away when I was just six years old. My dad took on the task of being both mom & dad. I don't know many men who are willing to take on that task.

I am glad that I am the woman I am because that's who my dad taught me to be.

I thank God for letting me have my dad for 43 years and for letting my dad die with dignity. He didn't have to stay here and suffer. He would have never liked it if someone would have had to take care of him.

My message to you is to cherish your parents. If you don't get along with your parents find it in your heart to bury whatever it is keeping you from being close to them. Cherish every moment that you have with them because you never know when you'll have to say goodbye to them for the last time.

My cousin wrote a poem for me titled "The Father" please stop by his blog and read it. http://relentlessflow.blogspot.com/

Be Blessed

Money Scams

I'd like to wish everyone a very happy new year. Tonight I was going to write about resolutions because we all have them at the beginning of the year but as I was opening and reading my email tonight I received an email about inheriting 2 million dollars. This is not the first email of this sort that I've received. It's like the 4th or 5th one. Usually I just delete them but this time I decided to open it & read it. It's really sad that some people really fall for this or either they are just desperate for money & go for it in hopes that they won't get caught. Well I knew just from reading the title of the email that it was a scam. Secondly, this is supposedly a woman in London who is "Christian" and doesn't want to leave her money to her family because they are not & she wants someone to use the money for good. Well, I don't know anybody in London. Then it goes on to say she doesn't speak much because she's ill so to correspond by email only. Ok I just fell off the turnip truck I guess because why would you want to give somebody, a stranger, 2 million dollars & not talk to them or meet them to make sure they would do something positive with this money. And if it's legit why not just give it to a charity then if your family are such heathens?
Has anyone else received such nonsense? These don't even show up in the spam they are coming through into my regular mail. I received one before this & it said I had money coming from a rich relative who died in a plane crash! Ok I don't have any rich relatives & don't you think if someone in my family died on a plane that I would have known about it?
Ok I'm done ranting now. I just wanted to share the nonsense that I've been reading.

God Bless & Have a prosperous New Year!

4 Months @ Christmas

I am four months loc'd as of yesterday & today! Sorry I don't have any pics of my four month old hair. I was hoping to have taken pics with family yesterday but to no avail. They didn't stick around long enough to take any! Sadly we had a tragedy in our family over the holiday. My cousin passed away on Monday from a heart attack. She had traveled to Dallas to see her daughter & her family & she had a heart attack as they were unpacking the car. She didn't even get a chance to see any of them. So most of the family had just gotten off the road yesterday & were too tired & probably too sad to stick around, so by the time I had gotten off of work they were already gone.

I got a new Cool Pix camera for Christmas so I should have some pics up soon from the camera hopefully you'll see more hair details & the pics will be a lot better than the pics I take with my phone.

I promised that I would show you the pic of my personalized hair tie so here it is. My hair in this picture is pretty close to the four month mark. I have to put my advertisement in now (lol) Please check out my loctician's etsy site! If there's something there that you see but it's not quite what you're looking for send her a convo she can make anything to your specifications. She's a very talented young lady.http://sheabrojaes.etsy.com/ We thought being on Etsy would be a piece of cake but it has been quite disheartening to be on there for two months with no sales. So our aim after the holidays is to figure out how to reach more people. If you have any suggestions please leave me a comment I would really appreciate it & so would she!

Be blessed & happy holidays!

Winter Wonderland

Today I woke up to 12 inches of snow on the ground. Our street hadn't been plowed so I didn't get to work until 10 am. Work begins for me at 7am. And the funny thing about it was I was the only one that didn't make it to work on time so everybody there had something funny to say. Like you just took advantage of the situation. No I didn't I don't have a SUV or Jeep I drive a Grand Prix with low profile tires! I knew with the snow being as deep as it was that once I got out of the driveway I would be stuck. So I didn't care what they said I knew I wasn't gonna take any chances. LOL

Life and Death

To celebrate life and death in the same week can be bittersweet.

I had the pleasure of meeting a set of fraternal twins born into life last week and at the same time had to say goodbye to a friend after a short battle with cancer. Why is it bittersweet? There are two little people who I will have a chance to see grow up and become something special and I get to celebrate the life of a woman who I know lived for the Lord and her two boys.

Christine will be missed but I know that she is resting in the arms of Jesus. She was funny, humorous and she didn't take no mess from nobody! She was an advocate for adoption & she took her sons in & loved them with every part of her being. Christine fought a great fight she stayed strong until the very end. She will be missed by many.

Ava if you get a chance to see this blog I want you to raise those two babies to become someone great.