Scalped!

Finally after months and months of constant nagging from my darling husband, and my dearest mother in-law, I did it. I finally took the scissors to Morgaine's hair. I must say it truly hurt to chop off a good 6 inches of her hair. We still have a fairly long pony tail, however it is far from her bum now.

She took it much harder then any of us thought she would. She got very very mad at me for taking her hair. She at first DEMANDED, that I put it back on. After a good half hour of convincing her that she looked beautiful, even though she no longer can have her pony tail over her shoulder she decided it was okay.

Dealing with ADHD

My oldest daughter has ADHD. It has presented us with some challenges with her starting school. Her first day of school resulted with a trip to the Principals office for bitting a 5th grader and being banned from the school bus. I must say going to pick her up that first day, and seeing how very sad she was, certainly was an eye opener.

Treating her with medications, was the most obvious and probably the easiest course of action, however the thoughts of having her drugged was not very appealing. My dh and I spent hours doing our reasearch, and discover there were countless natuaral treatments thats we could try.

Happily our first attempt met with great success. We have started giving her Evening Primrose Oil, and a comination of oils, to help her focus. In addition to this, we removed, sugars, refined carbs, and made sure that she had a diet high in protiens. Surprisingly she took to the change in the diet wonderfully. Pop was the first item to be completely removed from her diet.

My research led to me to a few articles on food allergies and ADHD. Many people belive that ADHD can be triggered by a food allergy. With the quick removal of all sugars, except natural occuring sugars, from my dd's diet, changes in her behaviour were almost instantanious.

We have now been pretty much incident free for a months She is still your typical 5 year old, but at least she is now typical. It is nice to see that see can be reasoned with, and that she now is paying attention in school. I no longer dread seeing her sad face when I go to pick her up. And we look forward to sharing her daily tales, that no longer include, the principals office.

Amigurmi Crazy

I have been wanting to try my hand at making an Amigurmi for some time now, and always found something else to make. Well after seeing a girl at work make the most adorable little witch, I had to give it a whirl. I found an easy pattern for a pretty shapeless creature from Lion Heart and went to work. It turned out to be very cute, with two dd, I had to make two of the same, and by the time I finished the second one, I must say I am thorughly hooked. My DD, has found a new best friend in her little Ami Gurl..........

I am currently on the hunt for another easy pattern for more practice before tackling the Witch. I think my biggest obsticle will be refraining from giving everyone I make to my dd's.

First Day of School.

Most of my writting here tends to be about crochet, however there was a big event today. My DD had her first day of school. I must say I took it much worse then she did. I cried when I made her lunch, I cried after I dropped her off. It was terrible for me.

When we got to the school, she just marched right on in to her classroom, sat down, and looked at the little boy beside her and said hello. I had been very worried about how she would do, however it seems she is going to be just great! I am now sitting here watching the clock waiting to go pick her up.

Here's a picture of my baby on her way out the door.