my blessed life

Well, y'all have greatly encouraged me in my new look --thank you very much! It was funny at church today to see friends do a serious double-take:) I'm starting to feel comfortable with my dark hair now. Did I mention that my daughter LOVES it? I find that very sweet--she likes it because it's so much closer to her hair color now. My son on the other hand doesn't really seem to notice, which is good, I guess. Aunt Kari must've gotten them well-adjusted to the many possibilities of hair color ( hehe ). We have had a nice, quiet weekend. Vince was out-of-town Friday evening and Saturday speaking at a youth retreat in Tennessee. The kiddos and I had a quiet day Saturday at home doing some cleaning. Although I've discovered that trying to clean your house with young children there is like trying to shovel your sidewalk in the middle of a blizzard--it's just about impossible. I can't even tell you how my standards for a clean house have lowered since ...

OK, I admit that I'm a chicken when it comes to major hair changes. I've been blonde pretty much all of my life and ever since too many of those *gray things* started appearing, I don't really know what my natural color is. Except that it's a lot darker than blonde ....and grayer. Now all of that hair upkeep does cost some bigger bucks than we've got right now. So in the spirit of being frugal and helping out our very tight budget, I decided to venture down the aisle of the store with all those little boxes. You know, the ones with all of those colors, millions of colors....for your hair. Talk about overwhelming! I immediately called my sister, whose hair I like to call *the color of the week* (just kidding, Kari !). But it is fair to say that she has much, much more experience in this area--I like to leave it to the professionals. But I'd had it with those roots and something had to be done. So I decided to go basically back to my natural color (whatever th...