Another month gone

By the way, Naomi is 5 months old today! Pretty soon, I'll be saying Naomi is 5, then 15, then 25 ... Happy Birthday baby girl!

Toys galore

I can't remember how I found it, but I'm in love with The Pajama Squid. They have the cutest clothes and foreign toys. Like Polly Horse, Pococo Giraffe by Jellycat, and this Elephant Onesie. I can't wait until I get to order something from the site. Naomi needs some new toys and this site has some unique offerings.

Don't do a new do

This week Naomi hasn't been taking her usual hourlong naps. Instead she has been taking these 30-minute (or less) cat naps, where she seems to wake up as soon as you put her down. To say the least, this means I haven't been getting a lot done. But she has been sleeping better through the night. So, Tuesday we had people from church over for a couples Bible study, so I was cooking and cleaning and trying to prepare for guests. 

Tuesday is usually my "Sunday" because my first day of the workweek is Wednesday. It's the end of my "weekend" so that means I try to get ready for work: consider making my lunch (usually don't), pick out clothes (though they never get ironed) and do my hair. And when I say do my hair this normally consists of washing, conditioning, leave-in conditioning, drying and flat-ironing. That all takes a good two or three hours. 

Now, back to Naomi's short naps and the Bible study. I didn't get to do my hair at all. Of course I had to do something to look presentable. I had seen other people wear wigs and it was no big deal. The wigs looked great on them. Sometimes you didn't even know it was a wig. I had bought one a few weeks earlier and decided to give it a try. The perfect solution to my dilemma, right? 

If you are expecting me to say that I wore a wig and it got snatched off or the strings were hanging out and I looked all crazy, though that would be both sad and funny, that is not what happened. "I absolutely love your hair!" "Great haircut!" These were among the comments I received. I should have known I couldn't just wear a new do and not have everyone comment about it. I wasn't trying to pretend like it was my hair. It was just a quick solution. I tried to not lie to people and make it seem like I had gotten a haircut. I would say, "just trying something different." Anyway, I spent the better part of a week continuing to wear the wig because I felt silly since everyone thought I had gotten a great haircut. And I felt silly wearing it because it was like wearing a hat and it just wasn't my hair. I don't know what I'm going to tell people who think I got my hair styled and now it's back to normal (ponytails and puffiness.) Maybe, I'll bring the wig back for special occasions. But for now I know I have to go back to being me. "I am not my hair ..."

Giving the blog world another shot

I have tried to blog before, though unsuccessfully. I never really had the motivation, but I decided to give it another run because I've been finding a lot of great treasures that I want to share. (i.e. cool baby websites, cute baby pics and candid stories about my daughter and my life as a mommy.) Plus, I have been taking HTML classes online, and I figure this could be a good way to practice the skills that I'm learning. So here we go ...