Happy Valentine's Day to you <3 It was a lovely day and I got the cutest Valentine's text message and a lovely bouquet of red roses from my person. I made spicy peanut noodle box for dinner with homemade spring rolls that were killer!
It was Monique night, she comes every Thursday. We all look forward to it and the kids wait for her to play games, read books and help them with their homework. After she tires them out, it's my turn and she rubs my scalp, shoulders and back. Tonight was a little different for my head massage, all my little stubbles were coming off with the rubbing and piling up on my head and getting absolutely everywhere. Monique had black shards all over her hands and arms and I had them all over my neck and shoulders. We laughed about it and decided I needed to scrub my head with some sort of brush, so what did I do? I got one of my ikea dish scrubbers (a new one) and took it into the shower and scrubbed my head. It hasn't all come off yet, it is patchy, with some smooth spots and still some stubble spots. It truly is the oddest feeling to have this bald head of mine. I don't think I will ever really get used to it, nor do I really want to. I can hardly wait until I'm finished this so my hair starts to grow back. I have accepted being hairless, for now, and look forward to having long locks again someday.
So now, I spend my time searching for my head scarves and my hats instead of looking for hair elastics. In my house, hair elastics are like little rings of gold, so now when I get asked, "Mom, do you know where there is a hair elastic?" My response is "I'm bald, why would I know where there is a hair elastic?" that always gets a laugh.
I'm not so sensitive to being called "baldie" instead of "blondie" by Phil and I am thankful somedays for the amount of time it saves me to get ready for the day. I used to have hair washing days, because of my long thick locks because it was a sixty minute procedure to wash and then blow dry my hair. I will take my scrubby into the shower everyday until it's smooth as silk!
