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Monthly Archives: November 2015

Happy Thanksgiving!

Got up early this morning to cook the turkey bird. Bird is in the oven and smells amazing already!  Sitting here sipping my coffee and thinking on Thanksgivings past. Missing my loved ones.

I asked my kids the other day what was their favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner:

  • Pumpkin pie ~Thing 2 and Lil Bit
  • Pecan pie ~ Thing 1, that’s my girl!
  • OLIVES & PICKLES~ Thing 1 after she thought about it for a while, totally my girl. 😉

The olives and pickles tray was my Grandmother’s thing. Every Thanksgiving we had baby dills and sweet gherkins, and green & black olives. And I always got to eat as many as I wanted. 😛 Grandma made sure of that.

Family traditions are fun like that (sometimes).

So we’ll have some pickles and olives on the table. A pumpkin and pecan pie. A turkey with cornbread dressing, sweet potatoes and green bean casserole… maybe. And give some thanks for what we have, each other.

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Dreadiversary

I started this dreadful journey some years back in 2011. I can’t believe that it has been 4 years now. A lot has changed in those 4 years!

I’ve learned a few things along the way:

  • Some people do not like dreadlocks, and feel as if they need to tell you, as if it matters to you if a perfect stranger disapproves of you life.
  • Some people do like dreadlocks, and enthusiastically tell you, young and old, male and female.
  • A person can look nice and well groomed with dreadlocks or without them.
  • A person can look like hell warmed over with dreadlocks or without them.
  • Dreadlocks are not just a hairstyle. It isn’t something that you change on a whim. It is an investment. A lifestyle.
  • Dreadlocks are a lot of work! Ha! What was I thinking??
  • Dreadlocks are awesome. I already knew this, but now I have lived it.
  • Fabulous people have dreadlocks! 😉

Some of the things I’ve heard over the years:

  • “I don’t like dreadlocks for me, but they are fine for you.” ~ Lil Bit, age 6
  • “Tiger lady” ~by an elderly gentleman.
  • “Is that her real hair?” In a loud “whisper” by a lady.
  • “I love your hair” ~by many people over the years
  • “I’m jealous of your hair” ~tatted young dude at the gas station just the other day.
  • “I really like your hair” ~by a little girl in a church youth group just last night.
  • “If I had hair, I would have dreadlocks.” ~a man in line at the bank with short cropped bright yellow hair. We went on to become acquainted thanks to small town, social media, and hair!

I have had far more positive reactions to my dreadlocks than I have negative. The negative comes mostly in stares and upturned noses. Their loss. You don’t go on a dread journey to win a public opinion contest.

If I could do it all over again… I think that I would tell myself to doooo eeeeet  much earlier than what I did. So instead of 4 years of locked living, I could be like a decade now. 🙂

So thanks to those of you who have helped me on my journey: Amanda who knotted me up, my sister, my mom and Thing 1 for countless hours of maintenance. And for all of you beautiful people out there with locks who inspired me. ❤

Dreads on the Kenai

Dreads on the Kenai