A journey begins...

I can hard believe this day is here...


If you are close to me in any way you would know that I have wanted dreads forever.. well high school really.

I am not sure where the inspiration started... probably from following this guy around to his local gigs:I spent most of my teen years dying my hair from blonde, to red, to brown, black, magenta and the hair cuts and styles never stopped changing... I had to divorce hair stylist b/c they just weren't daring enough to me.

When I became a mama I want nice "mom" hair with those new highlights and lowlights... I love my new hair dresser and blew my hair styled every day and spent a lot of money every 6-10 weeks on my do. When Daisy was a baby a mother/wife at our church past away and I carried Daisy in the infant seat through the wake... what struck me most about Char was her hair... from picking strawberries with her toddlers to wedding pictures, to my memories of her as a loving mom to teenage boys her hair was the same... I suddenly wanted long hair to braid, turn grey and grow long but that seemed like too much work for me and my little "mama do". Fast forward five years... I have changed my style a hand full of times but over the last year I grew my hair long and it became curlier than I ever remembered. But kind of a crazy curly. But I long for a style that will grow with me, be familiar to my children and also fun! (I always want fun hair!) So today I dread locked my hair... Don't think I am the only mama to do this... http://walkslowlylivewildly.com/

and lots of other doula mamas I have met have dreads... So here we go.... drum roll....

Dreads do not develop over night... it is a lot of work, perseverance and patience. My friend Jada helped me with most of them and I finished them tonight at home. I will be blogging here more about them so follow if you want!