Stuff I Love

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I HIGHLY recommend this photographer for those of you in the area)

I'm tried of all the hum-drum "woe is me" postings. I had a great week and have recently made some new fabulous discoveries that I want to share.

Carol's Daughter

Now I've known about these products for a long time, but have never actually used any. I just couldn't see paying $18 for an 8oz. bottle of hair moisturizer...Well, that was before DJ decided to grow out his hair! While his hair is extremely curly, it is also EXTREMELY dry, and he's been walking around for the past couple of months looking like an orphan child and refusing a hair cut.

Since Damon and I are all about letting the kids be individuals and kind of do their own thing, we didn't cut his hair (too much0, but I did make it my personal quest to find the perfect product for his hair....Enter Carol's Daughter's Hair Milk.

This stuff is a miracle for curls in a bottle! It takes his dry, brittle hair and turns it into silky-soft perfectly defined curls. It smells like citrus and is all natural. Just wet the hair and run in though root to tip. I also tried it on Evan's hair and it removed all the frizz!



I'm also recommending the Carol's Daughter Mimosa Hair Honey. This is an all purpose hair moisturizer and works great as well. With Evan's hair I normally have to spray it with water every morning and add oil before styling, but with this stuff I just dipped her brush in water, add a tiny bit of Mimosa Hair Honey and turned out FABU!

The Dominican Blowout

My regular stylist was MIA so out of pure desperation I visited a Dominican Salon to get my hair washed, blown out and flat ironed. OMG!!!!! The result was THE BEST blow out and flat iron I've EVER had (can you tell my excitement from all the CAPS I'm using?) Even better than all that...letting my Latin Sistas into my head was only half the price of what I normally pay! Only $30.

Threading

I've been getting my brows threaded by the East Indian women for months now and I love it. As opposed to spending anywhere from $17 to $25 for waxing, I drop $10 every 3-4 weeks and get perfect brows in about 7 minutes. Yes, it hurts (HURTS) the first few times you go, but after awhile you get used to it, and remember, beauty is pain!

Same Song

We're singing the same song this week. On Thursday I got a call from Cam's new school that he'd spit on someone so I FLEW up there and sat in on his class for a hour and a half. I LOVE the school, and still believe that Cam is in the perfect place, but he's still getting into the same type of trouble. Friday he threw a snowball at the teacher (among other things) and was suspended again. I tried to get an emergency appointment with the therapist, but it's a no go. Unless someone cancels we'll have to wait until Thursday.

We've been watching Cameron and taking mental notes about his behavior. It's obvious that he has NO impulse control. He knows all the rules but doesn't stop long enough to follow them. We're going to continue with the child study process at this new school so that he can get classified. Bottom line - he needs a parapro with him during work times so that he gets his assignments done and stop getting put out of school. We're going to try to have his psychologist fax over the paper work verifying that he has oppositional defiant disorder. That way it'll be in his file and then maybe at 504 plan can be put into place.

His new teacher says that he's in the middle to high range in his class of kinder and first graders, but she can't get him to focus long enough to really do anything. When I was there and made him sit with the small group and do the vowel assignment he finished in about 1.5 minutes with no help from anyone. That's pretty amazing considering how much school he's missed due to trips to the office and out of school suspensions.

We've been talking to him about making friends and bucket filling, and he's finally starting to open up about his feelings. He's been great this weekend about filling up our buckets by saying kind things and following directions, but who knows how this will translate when Monday rolls around.

As far as THE LIST is concerned I'm beginning to cross things off! I still think we've found the perfect school for Cam and in the event that we move after this school year he'll be in another public Montessori school wherever we end up. So, right now #29 is complete as is #31- Pics of the kids. Yesterday I reserved our session with a local custom family photographer. We'll be taking family pics next week and I can't wait! I've been wanting something done like this for a long time, but could never afford it. Now I can. These are not sit down, posey pictures...these are pics that will capture the kids' personalities in an environment they're comfortable in-HOME. Check out the photographer's work here.

The shelf is also coming into view. Things are really beginning to shape up nicely, and while I have a few different irons in the fire, my number one choice seems to be shaping up nicely. Here's another pic of our new possible city.

Lastly, just want to say a big THANK YOU to all of you who have been sending kind words, encouragement and prayers for Cameron. It's greatly appreciated and keep them coming! :)