Our water is pretty horrible.  It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s been a factor (though I haven’t been washing it too much).  I’ve been playing with the water temperature, since a parent (with a gorgeous vibrant red color) suggested I go as cold as possible when washing.

Saturday was a good quiet day.  The best sort of day I could ask for, thanks.  :)

Ask your stylist, but I have some friends who home-dye vibrant colors and they swear by a good coating of vinegar after dyeing to lock in the color, perhaps the toner did the same job. (It smells, but you don’t lose the color.) I think it depends on the water chemistry where you live too.

Hope you can keep the awesome color and that today is a kind one.

Though it wouldn’t surprise me if they were trying to behave so that we’d take them to Disneyland… hmmm.

I was really worried that people would treat my kids differently because of the hair.  The mean moms have no idea what to make of me now, but nobody has treated my kids any differently.  Though both teachers were curious how I explained the hair to the kids.  (And I did make sure my boys knew that this was something I could do because I was an adult)

This has nothing to do with either- but I was reading through your journal and saw the post on the Lego Friends line.  I bought a set for a birthday party gift for a girl in my son’s class- I went for the Inventor’s Workshop (because I would have wanted to be an inventor at age 6).  She has older brothers, both of whom play with legos, so I thought that it’d at least keep them from stealing her set… but I really do wish that they hadn’t of basically made it Polly Pocket lives in Lego-land.

But there’s a clean gene that seems to run through my husband’s family.  Maybe they’ll get it.  (My husband was a bit of a slob as a teenager when he lived at home, but when we moved in together, suddenly he became a neat freak)