SHEAR GENIUS!!!

After almost 19 months of being "baby" centered... I decided it was time to update my look. I got a shorter hair cut back in February but decided not to highlight my hair. It's so expensive. So I decided to pass and wait until a later date.

So last week, for some insane reason, since supposely I'm an artist; my husband thought it would be a great idea for me to color/highlight my own hair. He helped me pick out a highlighting/coloring kit at HEB to attempt a mini makeover and we even used a coupon... $14.99... save $2.00 = $12.99 verses... a whooping $60 to $100 for highlights/cut/ wash/ style... etc

Well my sweet friend Julie helped me on Sunday afternoon...

We he colored... and highlighted... my hair.. and highlighted her hair... and her's came out... beautiful and

mine well after the coloring.. it looked great.. then we added in the highlights... and I looked like an skunk with brownish copper hair with ORANGE highlights... what a disaster! not reddish but ORANGE... I'm talking the color of NEMO in Finding Nemo!!

We attempted to fix the highlights.. but didn't leave the highlighting color on long enough... and oranger highlights !

we laughed... sorta of

I left Julie's chuckling to myself... so this is why I shell out $60+ for professional highlights!

I went home and decided to run to CVS to see if I could fix my do... "since I found Nemo... he was swimming in my hair!!"

I went to bed with out fixing it... too tired to think about it.

For some reason God decided to wake me up at 3 in the morning.... my baby woke me up and I nursed him back to sleep and then caught a glimpse of myself in the bathroom mirror...

YEP! still nemo hair!

I bought some wash in golden brown color at CVS ... and at 3:30 in the morning attempted to fix my NEMO HAIR ....

well I actually liked the results. redder not as orange, not quite so nemo...

before............................. and now

i didn't take a photo of the nemo hair... but trust me it was BADDDDDDDDDDDD!

I actually had a coworker comment on how she liked my hair and ask where i got it done.

Oh did I have a story to tell....

"Summer is Over... School Has Begun!"

As I embark on my 3rd week.... back to my 10th year in teaching... after taking 3 years off... working at the church... I must say... Summer is over, and school has begun!

God has blessed me this year. I was blessed with a new boss, "that rocks" last September, and once Baby Cash came... I was blessed even more by having the opportunity and the blessing of my boss... to take Cash to work with me since I was "nursing" him.

January '08 through July 2, '08, I worked full time with a baby attached to my hip...
I loved working with kids... and teaching them about Jesus.

I decided to go back into teaching for various reasons... financial, insurance... retirement... etc
But the main reason is because of the schedule... teaching has a great schedule for moms... especially once your kids are of school age.

God blessed me again... by allowing my sister and brother in-law to move back to Corpus... and my sweet baby spends his days with my sweet sister... his aunt..
he does great with her and loves to hang out with her and the puppies... she taught him to say puppy... he says... puuup pu

he takes two naps each day and hangs with dad from about 7 to 9am, since i leave so early...
for school.. I don't feel as though i miss so much since he naps for a total of 4 hours almost everyday at my sister's house... 2 two hour naps.... when i think about it like that... he's only awake about 4 hours (without me)... of the 8 hours i'm away from him...

What a blessing! He can be with family, though!

I am excited to share... that God has blessed me even more... with a great school and staff to work with and teach with.. I have several fellow teachers and staff that I have taught with at a former school that are now with me at my new school.. and I am so blessed to have them...

even moreso.... I am blessed with great class... well two awesome classes
I teach math/science to 4th graders...
and I love it...

God really wired me up to be a teacher... and I'm embracing this.

I miss my baby... but teaching makes me cherish my time with him even more.

I know all you parent's are happily shouting from the rooftops...
"summer is over... school has begun"

But I'm happy (even as a teacher) that school has begun... too
it's already taught me so many lessons...


"Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him."Psalm 127:3

"Train up a child in the way he should go... and when he is old he will not depart from it" Proverbs 22:6