More "crazy"happenings....

I tell you now.... One day I am going to write a book about all the miracles and wonders God has let me see and be a part of in my life.
I know I tend to wax poetically a LOT about amazing things that have happened to me and Faith but everywhere we go crazy things happen.
Today started out bad for me, I was depressed and lonely and basically feeling miserable. I cried my way to therapy, all the way there. I decided when I got there that I needed to do something to pull myself out of the quagmire, and my hair REALLY needed a cut. So I decided to try to find a place to get a haircut. Unfortunately, the girl who last cut my hair was not working and my prospects weren't looking too good. Finally, I crossed town and found a little salon that took walk-ins. I stuck my head in the door and asked if they had time for me and a young lady came out and said she sure did, so I went out and got Faith. I was praying for someone who would be able to look at my hair and see something that she could do with it, as I am VERY plain Jane and never know what to do with my hair. I said I needed a new style to go with my new figure and was hoping for something fun and cute. Well, she starts cutting and says she has some good ideas for it. I just prayed she was good and let her have at it. We talked a lot and of course the topic naturally fell to Faith. I told her a little about her and that she just started walking. Turns out this girl had been home schooled herself, and her father was a preacher, too! Eventually, I told her a little about what we had been going through. Well, this girl was just snipping away and listening to me and turns out she was a Christian, too. So she decided that she was going to curl my hair....and before you know it....she had given me this fantastic, super cute, flirty haircut with swirly, wavy ringlets! I was so surprised! She says that she wanted to do something special for me! So I get ready to leave and this girl writes her name and phone number down and tells me that I should call her and if I wanted to come to town and have someone just wash and style my hair she would love to do it for me, whenever! And that she was giving me my haircut as a gift to me! She said that our story had been an inspiration to her and encouraged her in her faith! I cried...of course...and insisted on paying her but she refused and hugged me and told me she loved me and hugged Faith and told me to keep in touch with her!

A perfect stranger, at the perfect time...when I needed it the most...GOD put this girl in my life!

I feel like a new woman....like I need to go put on a fancy dress or something! I NEVER had a fancy haircut before......

Thank you, Father, for Racheal at Salon 81!

H....A....I...R....

Today, Faithy got her fourth haircut. Every year for the last three years around April.....

I just can't take it any more! I love her hair long but it gets to that point where it is like trying to comb a rat's nest. No amount of conditioner or detangler or comb or brush can get through all those curls....

She had about 8 inches cut today.

In the four cuts she has had, we have cut a total of 27 inches!

This girl is like Rapunzel, her hair grows so fast! She grew over 8 inches in the last 11 months, people!

We usually go to a children's salon but I was at my last straw this morning and it had to go! So we headed to the first salon I could find and I went in and gave them the "special needs" talk first.

I told the girl I wanted to be able to french braid it so it needed to be long enough to do that. In the end curls and wet hair are always deceiving and once it was dry it was much shorter than I had hoped for...but....
hair grows back, right?

Especially in this kid's case!

Note: this was the first time I didn't get to save her hair...it was scattered all over the place and the girl was hurrying us out. :(.....