AAAAH ..... My God is God!

New month is here and for me its exactly 2 days of being 23, am loving every minute of it and am so grateful to God for another year ... this year holds so much for me as i will be moving on to higher and bigger things in life , Yep! pretty much excited  but what makes me more ecstatic on turning 23 this year is that i got the best birthday pressie everrrrrr !!!!!  ...... i got a niece, yes i had been secretly hoping she would be born on the same day as me and my prayers had been answered.

here's to been 23 and having a niece to share the same birthday with ..... aaaaaah! my God never stops to surprise me! .............. THANK U Lord! <3

!!!! ... My heart speaks ....??

happy 1st birthday precious one!!!

My Gorgeous niece lizzy just turned a year old, outrageously adorable and cute! and to think i haven't even met her yet ... just 4 more months before i can, i really look forward to seeing all my nieces and nephew and be able to spoil them rotten. I say i am blessed !!!! proud aunty xxx

The Big Chop!

The thing is that when i get an idea into my head, there's no stopping me.  So late last year iv been pondering and flirting with the idea of chopping off my hair, just so to start afresh, and maybe just try out something new. Tex-laxing it was even a bigger motivation for me cause i turned out not to like it afterwards and i just missed my kinky coily little afro. Yesterday was the day i finally pulled up enough nerves and did the big chop after watching a couple ..lots  maybe, youtube vids, i must say i love the feeling of it that its starting to grow on me, i could almost get used to it. next up i want to experiment with all sorts of stuff and also learn how to better take care of my hair.

And that is me at work on my first day of publicly having a teeny weeny afro !!:=))

So my hair Survived!

few days before my sister's wedding:)

 So my hair was this Close to losing its texture involuntarily coz of my sister's wedding but thank goodness for weaves ! it survived ....and i ended up with this.......

at the wedding!

and now 3 weeks after the wedding am seriously contemplating on voluntarily texturizing it... i know! i know! right now my mind keeps screaming at me "you cant do that after all you've said!"
but the same mind is already stuck on doing it so ill end up doing it anyways...been planning on chopping it off next so might as well play around with it before i get rid of it:)

My sister , The most lovely Bride!!

My older sister just got married , she may not be so bigger than me but where am from, the fact that she is now a married woman , the gap has been pushed way up . I must say I am most proud of her because i have come to see the woman she has matured and grown into , and above all a mighty woman of God of which Her husband has had a whole lot to do with this woman she has become , a great example she has set for me i must say , I love her so dearly and thank the lord for her , who knew we would go from fighting over who rinses or dries the dishes or get caught drinking one of younger sister's milk and get a really good beating from mum for it, ah! what precious memories, and here we are today, all thanks to God!!......... these are a few pictures from the day of the wedding,  she's the most lovely bride i have ever seen not just from the outside , her beauty comes from the inside and rightly radiates on the outside xxx



getting preped!





My Take on hair

 

 

 

 

So i know i have been fussing so much about natural hair blah! blah! blah! and all that, so for a minute I had to stop and make it clear to myself what really my stance is on the matter, and it came down to this. sometimes i like my hair straightened and sometimes i like it rough and untamed in its natural state, on other days i like it weaved or braided but at the end of the day its not how i wear my hair that makes me more or less true to who I am , first as a child of God and secondly as an African.  Wearing my hair straight doesnt mean I want to be white, or that am a fake or not proud of my ethnicity and wearing my hair curly doent make me more African than the other person. What matters most is what is on the insides as opposed to what is on the outside, it all comes down to the mindset , personal preference and a touch of variety maybe.  But it is worthy to note that going around with natural hair takes a lot of courage and having a great sense of worth from within because it hasnt been considered the 'norm' for quite some time now especially were am from, and i must say its been a great experience for me. As for relaxers am still keeping away from them for my hair's health reasons and am happy to note that almost done growing out the front portion which i used to leave out when i did a weave, means i gotta sew everything in now. anywho that is that, how i wear my hair has no bearing on my spiritual, political , personality or ethnic consciousness. was starting to get sucked up in my own personal conflict in my mind. PHEW!