This week...

my son turned 6 months old...he's cooing, laughing, reaching for everything, trying to crawl...still not sleeping through the night.

me and coffee have had a serious romance going on as a result.

i realized that as my body goes through its transition instead of wearing clothes in sizes that i assume should fit me i should probably buy/wear clothes in the size i  currently am. i will look better and feel better about myself instead of being completely bewildered as to why my pre pregnancy jeans still don't fit.

i also realized that i actually needed to tone up before i even got pregnant.

i'm falling in love with my hair! i'm really happy that it's growing out completely from scratch. i feel as if i'm giving it the opportunity to grow in a healthy state.

in other news i'm still mixing up concoctions for my hair which hubby finds hilarious because i technically still have hardly any hair on my  head. i told him it's to keep my scalp healthy...i don't think he bought it.

i came into the understanding that although there are things at my job that drive me insane i am still very very blessed to be in the position that i'm in. i work from home full time and my son doesn't have to be in daycare. it doesn't get any better than that. really.

i continued to realize just how great my husband is. he is truly one in a million. he's a rare breed and he's my blessing from God. it's only by God's grace and favor that he's in my life and we're married. every day i have to say thank you to the Creator because without Him we wouldn't be.

overall it was a great week.

Staring at my hair on an hourly basis certainly won't make it grow faster.....

I had this same narcissistic obsession with my hair when I first started growing my locs. I'd check and check, look, turn my head..do everything to see if I had any new growth. Eventually I stopped stalking its growth and before I knew it I had a head full of luscious locs.

Now, I wait again...this time in hopes of a head full of healthy and wild hair...eclectic like me...
But it certainly requires that I give it love and time and high doses of patience.

In the meantime I've mixed my own set of oils and potions which I use on a daily basis. Currently my concoction consists of castor oil, jojoba oil, peppermint oil, burdock oil and aloe vera gel. I keep them mixed up in a little bottle that I squirt about a quarter size into my hair daily. I decided on these oils based on the one trillion blogs I've been reading on natural hair! Interestingly enough, I've been trying to decide if I should continue to get my hair wet daily when I shower but I haven't found that answer in any of the blogs I read. This is an awesome perk of having little hair on your head; but since I'm now growing it out I don't know. I use a conditioner..whichever smells the best to me, while I shower. We'll see how that works. I guess I'll see in time if I should stop.

I'll have to get hubby to take some pics so I can chart my progress...

2008 This is why I stay working out. I knew I had a flat belly once upon a time!