Hair today....Gone .... Today!

Yep that's right my 6 year old (K-Dog) decided to get out of bed last night & in the middle of the dark play room CUT her hair! ! ! !  Yes this is her FIRST HAIR CUT EVER! ! ! ! I'm beyond saddened by this! She has been telling me for the last year that she wants to grow her hair out to donate it to Locks of Love & now there is NO way that's going to happen like she had planned. She had decided that when she was 10yrs old she would have it cut off & donated....well you can see from the pictures that won't happen for a L-O-N-G time. . . . 

It may be hard to see but ^^ this shows where she cut her hair :(

Just LOOK at how LONG her hair was!!! She had NEVER had a hair cut in ALL HER LIFE!!! She's been growing it out since she was born!

I'm so saddened by this! Her hair reached her bottom! :(

And here's the AFTER I evened it all out with what she had cut. :( 

Sad sad mommy!

:(

I guess life happens, I know I'm not the first mom to have to deal with this. But when I told her she would have to wait longer to donate her hair to Lock of Love, she cried. She is upset with herself & even asked me if I still love her. Well that's a silly question, there is NOTHING she could do that would make me love her any less than I do! I am disappointed in her but I may love her even more now than I did yesterday....lets not tell her that tho....

I hope everyone has a happier Tuesday than we are having here.

Our "Egg" Craft....

This Easter was surrounded with busy BUSY days, both before & after. My Grandma D turned 80 & we went to her birthday party the Sat before Easter, I sang at church Easter day & we began revival! Dinner with Hubby's family, K-dog had her FIRST (& only) public school, Kindergarten program, Both K-dog & D-bug were in a dance recital this last weekend (yea we've been "flying by the seats of our pants" the last couple weeks) . . . . so here I am F . . I . . N . . A . . L . . L . . Y getting around to posting about our craft we did the week before Easter.

How much time I've spent on Pinterest & then thinking "hey we can do that" . . . yea I need to quit . . . it was almost a disaster BUT our eggs turned out really cute, I just have to get over the "mess factor" when doing crafts with kids LOL

Well I had seen these eggs made with balloons & yarn.... they were so cute & easy looking in the pictures! Well I wanted to make a cornstarch paste instead of a sticky glue . . . . so I found one that was just cornstarch & water (I didn't pin or save the web site, so I will have to look for that again) . . . . I made it up, blew up a few balloons & got the girls to the table. I explained what we were doing & showed them how to do it . . . . & then handed them a bowl of "glue" & yarn & a balloon . . . then my OCD kicked in & I literally had to leave the room for a bit why they wrapped the balloons . . . . Here are a few photos . . .  they don't show where K-Dog dropped her whole balloon wrapped in glue on my floor!!! 

 D-Bug & K-Dog studying very hard to get those strings to stay on the balloons!
This was tricky for little hands . . .

 Our finished "eggs" ready to dry
Who knew it would take almost 3 days for them to dry! 

 K-Dog & D-Bug holding their "eggs"!

D-Bug was more interested in picking the excess dried "glue" off.

"Eggs" are "chin holders"!

These really are cute & fun to do, I just think the next time I will try them the girls will be older...I'm thinking 10. . . that gives me 4 years to work on my fear of messes! LOL 

Have a great day & many blessings to New Beginnings!

Chickens!!!!

As our new beginnings continue, we have added these lovely baby chickens!

These beautiful babies are about 2 weeks old!
There are 11 Rainbow Layers & 7 Red Sex Link Chicks
For a grand total of 18 baby chickens!!!

I am so ready for them to start laying eggs! The girls are excited to see all the colors! We should have all sorts of colors: from browns to blues to greens & possibly even PINK!!! Sadly we may have to wait as long as 20 weeks for our first egg! *well boo*
I have been working on the hubby for over 6 years on getting chickens! I really think he just decided to give up the fight! LOL poor guy I love him so much & he spoils me rotten!

So now for the hard part, getting a chicken coop all figured out & built....I have many ideas (thanks to Pinterest.com) Now just to combine all my ideas into ONE realistic idea. 

This will be a great way to help teach the girls about baby animals & how animals grow & reproduce & also about the foods we eat. We will also be able to go over our colors & counting! YAY!!

On a side note, It has been so windy here- I think we are in the middle of our 2nd week of non stop wind during the day! UGH!!!

Back to getting ready for more New Beginnings!