Wen Cleanser

Thoughtful Miss Heather gifted me with a container of Wen Cleanser for my birthday this year. I have been wanting to try it forever but it’s a little cost prohibitive for me. I really wanted it for my travels in May to tame the hair insanity I experience in humid weather.... well actually every day. Also as I speed toward old age my hair is less manageable…..and those are very kind words to explain my hair.

Moving on…..I wanted to have a good hair day every day while I was gone. Such vanity right?  Then I was treated to a lesson in humility when I burned out, literally, my flat iron on the 4^th day. It’s not like Paris has an Ulta store on the corner I could run to and replace it so I had to live with frizz & fluff  basically every day. Having the Wen Cleanser helped me get thru all of it tho. It tamed it to a degree and made it liveable….so many thanks for such a wonderful gift.

This is what I saw when I looked in the mirror each day.

Pearls

For a rather significant birthday  friend Celine gave me pearls. She said the day should be marked by something extraordinary…so pearls were in order.

So for several years now I have been the proud owner of the pearls in the picture below. I always thought that I never was dressed up enough to wear them. Business casual or jeans and pearls? How could I pull that off? I was told that of course I could wear them….with anything actually! So I have been wearing them more and more. At first I felt a bit “June Cleaver-ish” then I felt more “Julia Child-ish” then “Audrey Hepburn-ish”. In other words I got more comfortable wearing them.

I love them

I love how they look

I love how I feel when I wear them

But most of all I have always loved my dear friend (who I met in the 7^th grade) who felt I needed them.

Bracelet & earrings not shown!

Three Sisters in Evergreen, Colorado

Friend Susie and family just hiked at Three Sisters in Evergreen Colorado. 

I have hiked there once and can't wait to go back....hopefully soon.

Dear sister took me and it was wonderful, peaceful,relaxing, etc.

I think you get the picture!

Montreux, Switzerland

I wanted to share one of my pictures I took on my Europe trip. As I was getting ready to take this shot I was so overwhelmed by the beauty of what I was looking at I didn't give much thought to what the picture would look like. 

How could I ever capture how I felt at that moment.......

But that is exactly what I accomplished.

What an amazing day.

Goodbye Mom

This past week we said goodbye to my mom. It's the ending of a chapter in my life and a very strange and unsettling feeling to have both my parents gone now. Even tho I  have been the parent and my mom the child for a number of years now because of dementia she was still the person who took care of me, sacrificed for me and loved me unconditionally. 
I'll be sure that she lives on through me, my children and grandchildren. 
I loved you to the moon and back mom and always will.

                                            bye  mom…..i love you