Friday's Picture- Hair

This is me! I hate having my picture taken. But tomorrow I am chopping my hair.  Right now it is 22" long. Too long for me.  I am going to cut it to above my shoulders and dye the heck out of it.  I had grown my hair out for my wedding and planned on cutting it after we got married. Well that was 2006 and I haven't cut it. So tomorrow is the big day. Make over time.  Maybe I'll even get a manicure.  I am going to donate my hair to locks of love. I hope it will make a nice wig for someone. Unless I chicken out. We'll see.

Friday's Picture

Friday's Picture

Once again I am breaking the rules. Friday's Picture is only supposed to be a picture and no words, but I wanted to explain this photo.  Fast Freddy and I got married in May 2006.  He proposed to me in June 2005 on 7th Ave Beach in Belmar.  I love the beach more than words can say. I spent a lot of my childhood on 7th Ave beach and Freddy new this beach had a lot of meaning to me.  So this is the spot he asked me to be his wife. I was so happy to become his wife and still am.

I am participating this week in a photo scavenger hunt.  One of the items on the list to photograph is "Something Artificial".  My wedding bouquet was made from artificial flowers. Artificial Peonies to be exact.  I have bad allergies when it comes to fresh flowers.  Months before my wedding I thought about me standing in front of the alter with fresh flowers in my hand sneezing, runny nose and itch eyes. Oh the horror.  So my mother made this beautiful bouquet for me and I'm happy to say the only tears that were in my eyes were of joy.

So this week during the beautiful weather we had I took my bouquet to the beach and placed it in the sand in the same area where Freddy proposed to me.  I am surprised I never thought about doing this before and I am so grateful for participating in this scavenger hunt to make me do things I wouldn't have thought to do otherwise.

I will post all the pictures from my scavenger hunt on Sunday.

Friday's Picture

A Friday ritual.

A single photo - no words - capturing a single moment from the week.

A simple, special extraordinary moment.

A moment to pause, savor and remember.

Okay I know Friday's Picture is only supposed to be a picture and no words, but I couldn't resist adding a quick explanation. This is Brady sitting on the couch with his show-and-tell waiting for the school bus to pick him up.  I knitted this toy alpaca for him. He was supposed to bring in his favorite winter animal.  He knows alpacas love the winter, so this is the toy he picked. He insisted that the alpaca wanted to stay in his coat and not in his backpack.