Not Me Monday: Socks, Singing, Spelling and Shampoo

While I was looking for some rolls for dinner, I did not find a sock in the bread drawer. Nope not me! If I had found a sock in among our homemade bagels, rolls, and sandwich bread, it would not have been a single, dirty sock. Our children always put their dirty socks into the laundry, matched up with their mates of course.

During our family worship I did not get the giggles. I was not laughing so hard that I was unable to sing a single note during “Be Thou My Vision”. I did not tempt any of the children to laugh causing my poor husband to have to stop the song altogether.  I would certainly not be a distraction during this serious time of worship and praise.

When we restarted “Be Thou My Vision” I did not begin to giggle all over again. My husband was not forced to sing a mostly-solo for the whole song while giving me dirty looks, nope, I would never think that a mostly-solo punctuated by giggles was something to laugh at.

While we were having dinner my husband noticed an inch worm in the hair of our I-am-petrified-of bugs-and-scream-whenever-one-if-them-gets-near-me daughter. We did not ask her, with horror on our faces, what was in her hair. We did not ooh and aah about how gross it was. When she started yelling and screaming to get it out, we did not delay helping her because we were laughing so hard.  I do not think she will be scarred for life.

One of my sweet, supportive and subtle friends did not offer to buy me whatever shampoo or hair product that I wanted so long as I would start *washing my hair again.

For my birthday my mom did not get me headbands in order to cover up my hair. I know my mom does not think that my non-shampooed hair needs to be covered up because, you know, mom’s are supportive. (Hi Mom! )

While I was composing a post this week I did not misspell voila as viola. When my husband pointed this out, I did not think that he was wrong. I did not need to Google viola to finally believe him. I did indeed mean”to suggest an appearance as if by magic” not “a stringed instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than a violin.”

My husband and children do not now mock me by exclaiming, “Viola!” every chance that they get.

In regard to my “no shampoo” experiment, I have not had TWO friends tell me that if I stop using toothpaste they will draw the line. What I want to know is what exactly that means, cause I was thinking….

*I want to be clear on this, I am washing my hair daily, I’m just not using shampoo. I just want to be clear. Also, if I decide to stop brushing my teeth, I now know who not to tell.

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