I have a very long hair. I like it in a bun, so it's easy to not notice that it's gotten too long. I was looking for a way to wash it efficiently, without using too much shampoo, water, etc. Here's my formula. It works great. I hope it helps you to teach your long-haired daughter not to use a whole bottle of shampoo every time she washes her hair; or helps to make your travel lighter and easier.
Step 1 - always wash your hair AFTER you wash yourself. (this way the hair will get wet thoroughly, and the clean hair will not get dirty again from soap splashes and high humidity.)
Step 2 - pretreat - take a small amount of shampoo and rub it into the scalp. Don't bother making sure that you get it on ALL the length of the hair, it's not nessesary. This is what you usually waste your
shampoo on. The oil on the hair does not let the shampoo to foam up well, and you have to use more and more. Don't bother. Rinse. Move on.
Step 3 - wash. Notice how much less shampoo you are using. Rinse. No need to repeat! Use conditioner if you like.
Step 4 - adjust the shower stream to the max (if possible) and lower the temperature a bit. Using a thick-tooth comb, comb your hair. It's easier to comb in the shower and will minimize tangles.
Step out of the shower. Dry your hair as usual.
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Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
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Hi, sorry for being MIA, we were visiting my family in Russia. Me and my 4yo daughter, who has some food allergies... and that is what the post is all about.
She's allergic to milk and eggs (and possibly to some nuts or legumes). She is a somewhat picky eater (I suppose, many kids with allergies are cautious than trying new foods), but when at home she has enough choices to pick from. I'm not sure if this is true for everyone, but every time we travel outside the US, our child has very limited food choices. Eating out becomes impossible unless there is a McDonald's around. The ingredients are not always listed on products in Russia. Very often pasta and baked goods are sold by weight, and so there's no package to look at. Also, hot dogs and sausages commonly have milk or cream in them. We were not able to find a single variety that was safe for her to eat.
What did she eat for three weeks? At least we could cook... We took a box of Cherrybrook Kitchen Original Pancake Mix with us, so I was able to make her pancakes. We found a brand of pelmeni (Russian style meat tortellini) that had no milk/eggs. She ate mac and kasha (buckwheat), potatoes, meat; and various berries that were in season. For snack she had "sushki" - small, crunchy, mildly sweet bread rings which can be eaten for dessert (from wikipedia). The only fast food choice she had was french fries, so I had to make sure we had enough food with us when we were out and about. It seems counterintuitive, but it's a lot easier to feed a child who has diabetes than a child who has food allergies. But it is true.
I'm curious how other people handle travel and food issues. Especially when you stay in hotel and have no stove.
She's allergic to milk and eggs (and possibly to some nuts or legumes). She is a somewhat picky eater (I suppose, many kids with allergies are cautious than trying new foods), but when at home she has enough choices to pick from. I'm not sure if this is true for everyone, but every time we travel outside the US, our child has very limited food choices. Eating out becomes impossible unless there is a McDonald's around. The ingredients are not always listed on products in Russia. Very often pasta and baked goods are sold by weight, and so there's no package to look at. Also, hot dogs and sausages commonly have milk or cream in them. We were not able to find a single variety that was safe for her to eat.
What did she eat for three weeks? At least we could cook... We took a box of Cherrybrook Kitchen Original Pancake Mix with us, so I was able to make her pancakes. We found a brand of pelmeni (Russian style meat tortellini) that had no milk/eggs. She ate mac and kasha (buckwheat), potatoes, meat; and various berries that were in season. For snack she had "sushki" - small, crunchy, mildly sweet bread rings which can be eaten for dessert (from wikipedia). The only fast food choice she had was french fries, so I had to make sure we had enough food with us when we were out and about. It seems counterintuitive, but it's a lot easier to feed a child who has diabetes than a child who has food allergies. But it is true.
I'm curious how other people handle travel and food issues. Especially when you stay in hotel and have no stove.
Beach must-have
But today's post is about a must have item that should be in everyone's beach bag but very few people actually have it – baby powder. Seriously, it will change your life.
Unless the beach is a short walk away, you have to dry yourself up and change back into your shirt and pants. But it's unbelievably difficult to rinse off all the sand. And that is what the powder is for. Just sprinkle some on yourself after you get dry and wipe off. The sand falls right off. You can have an itch free drive home. Guaranteed.
(image by Mamalya: Hanauma Bay, Hawaii)
The very long flight
We spent the whole day strapped to our chairs twenty something thousand miles up in a sky. We flew from gray rainy day in NJ to ever sunny Hawaii.
As usually we've drawn too much attention to ourselves in the airport as little N drove her bright green Trunki across the terminal. Trunki is a hard case suitcase that the child can sit on while you pull it behind youself or she can pull it by herself if it's more convenient.
(it looks like Melissa & Doug will be an oficial distributor in US, so they might be coming to major stores soon. We bought ours from a kid boutique).
The flight was never-ending. It's difficult to convince a four-year old that time goes faster when we sleep; or that we need sleep because we woke up at the crack of dawn... So she was restless and we all were tired. Somehow Transcontinental flights are easier than extra-long
local ones.
The Trunki (our in-flight entertainment bag) was packed with snack bars, juice boxes; coloring books and crayons; a deck of Uno and a deck of Go fish!; iPod and a small laptop. For the first portion of the flight N played with her purple beany bear and was learning to use the wild cards in Uno (apperantly it's fun to make daddy lose his turn) then we found out that the laptop can't read from the SD card (we have an eee pc) so cartoons were canceled to everyone's disappointment and I had to give her my new iPod. She uses it like a pro! And looks extreemly cute. I've got a few more games from iTunes and she loves them. The only thing she did not want was the coloring book (even doodling in the airline magazine was more fun).
Another long flight is coming in a week when we'll be going back home but we won't have a beach and ocean and pool that we can promiss her for being a good girl during a flight. So it's going to be an exhausting one unless we fix the laptop or figure out some other ways to keep her busy.
Do you know a good way to keep the small child happy and on her chair for a long time? If you do, please leave a comment.
As usually we've drawn too much attention to ourselves in the airport as little N drove her bright green Trunki across the terminal. Trunki is a hard case suitcase that the child can sit on while you pull it behind youself or she can pull it by herself if it's more convenient.
(it looks like Melissa & Doug will be an oficial distributor in US, so they might be coming to major stores soon. We bought ours from a kid boutique).
The flight was never-ending. It's difficult to convince a four-year old that time goes faster when we sleep; or that we need sleep because we woke up at the crack of dawn... So she was restless and we all were tired. Somehow Transcontinental flights are easier than extra-long
local ones.
The Trunki (our in-flight entertainment bag) was packed with snack bars, juice boxes; coloring books and crayons; a deck of Uno and a deck of Go fish!; iPod and a small laptop. For the first portion of the flight N played with her purple beany bear and was learning to use the wild cards in Uno (apperantly it's fun to make daddy lose his turn) then we found out that the laptop can't read from the SD card (we have an eee pc) so cartoons were canceled to everyone's disappointment and I had to give her my new iPod. She uses it like a pro! And looks extreemly cute. I've got a few more games from iTunes and she loves them. The only thing she did not want was the coloring book (even doodling in the airline magazine was more fun).
Another long flight is coming in a week when we'll be going back home but we won't have a beach and ocean and pool that we can promiss her for being a good girl during a flight. So it's going to be an exhausting one unless we fix the laptop or figure out some other ways to keep her busy.
Do you know a good way to keep the small child happy and on her chair for a long time? If you do, please leave a comment.
