Day Forty Two - THE HAIR!

"Brothers, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. As you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy."  James 5:10-11

It was a busy day, but I was thinking on what to do about my hair most of the day. Tiah's mother wanted me to think about not cutting off my hair, because her hair never fell out. But I think that it was a while ago that she had breast cancer and probably the chemo stuff was different. The doctor seemed fairly certain that I would lose my hair, but so far there had been no signs of it falling out.

But a breakfast I was chatting with Corey about the problem and we decided that maybe a wig was the best solution, so we decided to go to the wig store on Broadway. Corey got ready, but then I realized I needed to get Riley to work. I don't know what he was doing, but he sure was late. When we went to get into the car I remembered that we had loaned Emily's car seat to Tom on Sunday for taking the kids to the beach, so we stopped by green gables to fetch it. To Riley's horror, the car seat stunk of pee. Obviously Tom had not seen to her diapers, or he had had her in panties and not taken her to the bathroom and she peed in the seat. He had obviously didn't make any effort to clean the seat! We didn't get Riley there until 10 o'clock, and I had told Annie I would pick her and Emily up at 11 to go visit Gramma and Grampa, so time was runny out.

But we made it to the wig store and it didn't take long to realize that a wig absolutely was NOT the solution for me. For starters there was no finding a color anywhere near the color of my hair. And since I've never dyed my hair it would seem very strange to show up in a different color. Secondly, the wigs were all puffier than my hair. I felt like a complete idiot in all that puffy hair. So we soon left, confident that I should never give a wig another thought.

I took Corey home and she found the Fabreeze and heavily sprayed the seat. I made myself a big cup of iced green tea, grabbed Emily's puzzle and a tea towel to put on Emily's seat, and headed out. Annie and Emily were so ready they were out on the lawn. This was a first for Annie, I was impressed. Emily was delighted to see me and Annie had dressed her adorably. I wish I had taken a picture. From the back seat Emily had a lot to say, but because I haven't been around her as much I wasn't sure of what she was saying and I had to ask Annie to interpret.

Emily totally knew where she was when we got to Gramma's place. When I got us signed in she ran right down the hallway to the elevators and pushed the up button. And when we got to Gramma's floor she ran right down the hall to the door. Then of course she went right in and asked Gramma if she could do the bubbles. Annie took her out to the "balcony" to blow bubbles for a while. It's so nice to have a nanny along. That would be Nanny Annie.

Then we all went down to lunch. There was no salad bar, which was a disappointment. After carefully inspecting the menu I ordered an egg salad sandwich and a cup of potato leek soup. For Emily I ordered the lemon poppy seed muffin and Gramma ordered her a glass of milk. To my taste buds the egg salad sandwich was absolutely disgusting - vile. But the soup was wonderful, and when I was done eating it Gramma ordered me another one. It has gotten so that I adore eating tasty food. It happens so rarely. Before I was done with my soup Grampa took Emily to see the electric train, and I sent Annie along with them to help Grampa keep Emily under control. When they returned we all went upstairs, and Gramma and I chatted a while and Grampa fell asleep. We left at 1:30, as Annie had to get back home to be there for the plumber to fix their garbage disposal hook-up.

When we arrived at green gables Tom was there waiting for Emily. I sarcastically told him thanks for leaving me a heavily pee-on car seat. He said "what?", is his most obviously lying playing dumb fashion. So I hit him with Emily's shoes and told him that I was never going to lend him anything ever again. Now I did this in a mildly pleasant manner.  I was still holding the shoes after I hit him.  He just smiled pleasantly. That man is sooo irritating. Then I went home and took a nap.  When I got up from my nap I went to comb my hair, and lo and behold, my hair was starting to come out.  I'd been expecting that, but it was still unsettling.

When I got down stairs Sarah and Zac and Caleb were there. We visited for a while, and then it was suggested that Sarah and Caleb and I take a walk while Zac clean out the refrigerator, because something in there smelled terrible and nobody knew what it was. Great idea. I put on sun screen, Sarah got Caleb ready, and off we went. We decided to walk to Pete's. It was a wonderfully pleasant afternoon, just the right temperature. At Pete's I got a jasmine lime ice tea, and Sarah got something very chocolaty coffee looking, and some coffee cake. I let Caleb suck on my straw, making sure he didn't get too much tea. He seemed to really like it. When Caleb started to get a bit antsy we headed back home. I live in such a nice neighborhood to take a walk in.

While we were on the walk my hairdresser, Monty, called.  He said he was so sorry to hear that I had cancer, and that he always cuts for free the hair of his clients who have cancer.  That was so nice of him.  Now this is a man who watches every penny, and a hair cut is around $60, so that's no small favor.  He told me to call his receptionist to make an appointment on Friday.  I sure hope I have a decent amount of hair to cut by then.

When we got home Zac was just finishing up the refrigerator. It smell great. He had discovered the culprit - a bowl of rotting pasta. What a delight to have my refrigerator clean and with room in it. Then soon after we started in on making salmon chowder. I explained to them that to me it was a very satisfy dish. And to go with the chowder I helped Riley make flaky scones, making only 2/3 the recipe. Then we all sat down to dinner and a movie that Sarah and Zac called "New in Town" starring Rene Zellwinger. We all enjoyed it very much. It was set in remote Minnesota and the people had the funniest way of talking. Riley said he wanted to buy that video, partly so we could catch the funny things the people said.

When the movie was over the Enochs left and Riley and I went up to bed. Actually I went up first, and Riley put away the food and tidied up a bit. Again I had a half an Ativan. Nothing like being able to get to sleep. It's not that I fret or anything, I just don't calm down enough. Maybe I need more exercise.

Psalm 68:19-20

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden,


The God who is our salvation. 


God is to us a God of deliverances;


And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.