Simone

Up until now, Kathee and I have had no idea how to take care of Gideon's hair. We have kept it short from the time we got him, as that what was easiest. As he's gotten a bit older, I want to see what he looks like with longer hair.

For those of you who don't know (and if you are Caucasian, you most likely don't), African and African-american hair is WAY more difficult to take care of than Caucasian hair.

And not knowing any black people, we were a bit nervous about how to take care of his hair. Sure, Kathee could have read from other adoptive families and whatnot, but we wanted someone who actually knew how to take care of his hair.

And the Lord provided Simone. She attended our church once last summer. While there, she met up with a girl who attends my youth ministry. That girl, Caitlin, invited Simone to come to our weekly supper and Bible study that we host at our house. So Simone started coming, and has been coming consistently for a few months now. By the way, as a super-cool aside, Simone has also been bringing another young lady, who's mother is a refugee from Liberia. As another way cool aside, Simone and Victoria have a teacher at Rock Island High School who is adopting an Ethiopian sibling group (so we called her and will be meeting with she and her husband after our Baby Hope is born).

Anyway! So one night we started asking Simone about how to take care of Gideon's hair. The next week she showed up with a whole bunch of product and has been teaching us how to take care of Gideon's hair (he now sleeps in a silk sack, will be getting a durag shortly, gets hair grease once a week, etc, etc).

See his hair is SUPER-DRY. We were washing his hair at every bath, now we wash it once every week or two. Well, I won't bore you with the other hair care stuff. Suffice it to say, we are learning a ton and loving it.

So now Simone comes over early on Thursdays and takes care of his hair (and teaches us). She lined me up with a barber for him and we'll be taking him there shortly too. Simone is a fantastic young lady, and so cool how the Lord brings things about.