Cleaning The pipes (TMI)

Firstly, big-ups to Shanda and Crystal {[Rustic Chick Moms on a lifetime mission]} and Secondly, until pics and graffiti font are added, this post is still in production.

My period started the day my toddlers donor called.

Yesterday was the first time I've heard his voice in.... ALMOST a year, (give or take 2months, 3weeks and 4days.. His inquiries can be summed into the parts he desires to be, where he is with his two other children and where he's just weird to me and why we never 'formally' dated (then again I'm more for informalities with pleasantries anyway)

When you're a parent, or play an active role in childs life (minimum of 10 hours a week) {[OMG, just realized I average 20 hours a day with my toddler]} you question the child more, and yourself less.



Here is a list of questions my toddler-girl's donor asked me to answer for him and here are the categories.

Father questions:

Daddy questions:

Donor questions: "Can I speak to her?" {(sure.. Call more, vist period)}
                         


After yesterday's emotional slap, and today's ground floor revisitation, I'm re-re-evaluating yet more decisions in my life.  After I took the assessment and then began the web search, I got caught in yet another tug-of-war between job applications.  It took me nearly 5 hours to shrug off the destruction grabbers.  {So who TRULY won THAT war?  ... some might argue, the distraction}

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Toddler Hair Winter Care

Winter begins December 21st.

In preparation for a new season of hair care, I've packed up half the shampoos, and am stocking up on shower caps for moisture rich days, and satin scraps for the chill claws of the season.

I've successfully completed Toddler-Girls's first Hot Oil treatment last night and recognize child protective services has enough photographic evidence of my wrapping this little girls hair up in a plastic bag to red flag me.. SO.. Plastic caps (although not as cost effective for units of all races w/o altered hair structure) is going to be added to my Natural Young Thangz Winter Regime.

I kept the bag wrapped and tucked with a child-sized full headband securing it away from her crown allowing the oils to drip down.

It's her and me and I have to find the balance of occupying Toddler Girl's attention while sectioning and detangiling her hair for d.S twists and occasional twisted rows and bantu knots.

She's begun imaginative play, curtsey's well, and counts beautifully.

I've paused to question myself, tripped over grass, and Ms. Cabrera summed up my year as a tragic airplane crash.

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As of Feb 13th, I was able to give my 2yr a full head {8 in all} of bantu knots.

And although the picture above has to be altered for her actual rear-of-head-photo, this picture was far closer {my toddler girls hair is much thicker} in comparison to what I did as opposed to a lot of the wrong I saw going on in the web with the same search "toddler bantu knot"..

If you want bangs, don't pull the hair follicle to the back with such visible tension.  If you want to stretch the hair, don't double up on the braids and then twist.  It just causes more tension {stress} on your tresses.

how NOT to bantu:: Traditionally bantu knots are meant to be worn in sections that your natural hair grown from the scalp is attempting to curl form to.  Essentially, "which way do you want your hair to grow?  Moisturize it, seal the moisture, then detangle from the root in the direction you want your hair to ultimately lay, twist from root, spiral the twist to the tip of your hair and then wrap that cord round and round the base of the root until the grandfather tips of your {or your sitter's} hair may be tucked {or wrapped} under.

And attempt to avoid as much cotton {moisture absorption hair tools} as possible especially on the tips of your hair which need the most moisture for visible length retention.