Nothing ventured, nothing gained 7/18/2007
My entire life I have wanted to be able to do a french braid. I had long hair for most of my growing up years and loved it when I could find a friend to french braid my hair. I most often did this for gymnastics meets. In any case, I’ve always thought it was so difficult. Well, now I have a daughter with long hair and I feel so inadequate to do anything for her. She recently got her hair cut and the lady who did it did some simple french braids and showed me how. It was a brief lesson and I didn’t think at the time it was enough to work from, but I sat down last night and did two french braids in Adelina’s hair. The first one was pretty sloppy, but the second one wasn’t half bad! I was so proud, and of course Adelina looked darling. Naturally, she pulled them out first thing this morning in order to enjoy her curls, so I didn’t get to take a picture, but I’m hoping to try again soon. I so hope I can do it again. I’m still a little bit in shock. It’s not a skill I ever really thought I could master. I guess you don’t succeed if you don’t try. If/when I manage to do it again, I will take a picture and post it here!
This may be weird, but I always thought that if I had a daughter that I would want to know how to French braid her hair, or at least braid it. Now that I have one, maybe I should get some lessons.
Woo-Hoo for the small pleasures of life
Being the oldest of 7 (6 girls!) I grew up braiding their, mine and everyone’s hair from early age - I love it and I can totally understand your excitemet 
I wish my daughter’s hair was long enough yet (but even if it was, it is so fine I don’t think a braid would last more than 10 minutes, lol)… Now that you’ve masted the basic french braid, you can practive on the innoverted one, the extroverted one, the ones that goes all the way around the head… you’ve just entered a world of fun hair braiding possibilities!! 
Ohhhhhhh - and I can hardly wait to see a picture of Adelina!!!!!