mother's day and photos

Happy Mother's Day to all of the wonderful, fantastic, loving mom's out there. (Mine's the best, but I guess I'm partial).

I got my mom flowers, took her out to dinner, and the kitten that she had been eyeballing for weeks! He is the most adorable, and he almost squeals when he meows because he's so tiny! I call him The Ewok.

His name is Scout, as in To Kill a Mockingbird.

He is so adorable, and only weighs about a pound and a half! So tiny!

 My boyfriend wrote me a letter while I was gone and I got in the mail yesterday! It was so sweet! I LOVE getting letters in the mail! Old fashioned, sit down to write, ink and paper letters. It just shows you that they were thinking about you enough to take the time to write something. I love it!
So, this is me now, on this rainy day, sitting at my jewelry making desk, re-reading my love letter, over and over:

<3

I seriously have the sweetest boyfriend ever. He is patient, kind, sweet, funny, thoughtful, and just perfect for me! I can't wait to marry him someday! Besides the sweet handwritten note, he made me a little picture card thing of us when we were kids, and a mushy message (but that part is just for me).

We were messy children.

Nathan could have possibly been the cutest kid in the world. We were watching videos of when he was a kid, and he was so adorable! AHHH! I want to go back in time and pinch his cheeks!

Also since I am trying to keep track of my hair growth, I took another picture to show how much it has grown in the 2 weeks since I got it cut!

Mehhhhhh

The front is getting long, and the back is almost to the point where I could let it grow and not look like a mullet. Grow hair, grow! What I wouldn't give to have a long long braid right about now. I also am starting something that some will think is gross. It's been known as going au natural, no-poo, or just lazy.
I quit shampooing  my hair.

What I used to feel like.

Well, that's a lie. I wash it with real shampoo maybe once a month. I started doing this when I cut my hair off. My hair, although always pretty long, was greasy at the root and super fried and dry on the ends. No matter how much hair product and oils I put on the ends, they would just soak it up and still look fried, but feel ultra greasy. That in turn, made my face break out and me a very unhappy camper. So, I cut my hair off, mostly to start over with virgin hair, and partially because I wanted something new. I noticed that with the healthy hair (I had been growing out my roots for months), I didn't HAVE to wash everyday. Then I went to 3 days. Then 4. By the 4th day, things can get a little unruly. Instead of washing it with shampoo I thought, what if I just wash it with conditioner? It wouldn't strip my hair, but it would gently clean it and make it smell good... or it will make it a giant greaseball and I just wash it again with shampoo. No biggie.
To my amazement, it turned out wonderful! Shiny hair that wasn't greasy, stinky, or gross. It just looks healthy! I washed it with shampoo a week or so ago just to get it completely clean again, but after looking online, apparently people just wash with baking soda and apple cider vinegar (or make their own shampoo). I'm going to try the baking soda one, just because it's cheap. But I want to grow my hair out this time healthy and not brittle or dry. I'll let you know how it works out! I'm trying to get boyfriend to do it too, since he has the coarsest, thickest hair ever (and I'm really jealous because I have a lot of fine hair that gets damaged if you look at it wrong. Also, Nate has the prettiest eyelashes in the world. I want them.)

Well, I'm going to go do things today. Maybe give my cat a flea bath. And then maybe go celebrate Mother's day with Nate's family. (That sounds awful that I'm not with my mom, but I was just with her and my brother for a week to celebrate today and her birthday!)

Cheers!