I HATE doing laundry…but this morning I decided to listen to Lady #anitabaker while doing it!
Not sure how much laundry will get done, but for now,
I’m washing and folding everything in this house!!!
The moment in the woods in a rehearsal room when I fell for a baker’s wife 😉!
@sarabareilles
@nycitycenter #encores #intothewoods #momentinthewoods #sondheim #broadway #theater
Back to life…
Back to #Serenity!!
#july20
@netflix
It was a rainy day today.
I like these days.
I was warming up, and thought of some friends of ours who are walking through a ‘situation’ 🙂! This little song popped into my head and wouldn’t leave…so I had to sing it.
It’s not #Sunday, but we can still have a church moment 🙂!
Thanks to @jonmcreynolds for the song. ‘Sorry for messing with it, dear one!
🎶May your battles end the way they should🎵
May you still know (no matter what you’re going through today) that God is good.
It’s a big day folks…and I’m tickled…Caribbean 😉!
Unfortunately, I couldn’t be there in person, but I was so happy to send an acceptance video.
It’s such an honor to receive the Doctor of Letters Degree from the University of the West Indies. I’m silenced by the enormity of this honor and blessing.
🇹🇹
(Repost: @uwi_staugustine )
Congratulations to Heather Headley who has now officially been conferred with an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt).
🎵Memories…light the corners of my mind (that’s another one…😄)🎶.
I haven’t played or sung this in (I’d say over a decade, but that would make me sound old 🤷🏽♀️) YEARS 😆!
#loveliftusup
#highschool
#trinidad to #fortwayne #indiana
‘VERY early #morning interviews today…
Me just before dawn this morning!
And then…
Me just after dawn….
But a loved #Mommy and wife always.
#HappyFriday
#mommydays
#loveit
Braids: @chichi043
‘VERY early #morning interviews today…
Me just before dawn this morning!
And then…
Me just after dawn….
But a loved #Mommy and wife always.
#HappyFriday
#mommydays
#loveit
Braids: @chichi043
I’m on top of the world…hey!
And please, don’t let the smile fool you, there was prayer and fasting before I stepped onto that thing. And you can’t hear our kids giggling that they got me to do it. It’s amazing though….
So…
I have a Mom!! 😉!!
1. I’m better than I thought. The fact that I kept this secret for a year is amazing in itself. (Applause. Applause 👏🏽. Thank you. Thank you!)😉.
I was so excited and honored that Ms. Janet Hubert would agree to join our @sweetmagnoliasnetflix cast and be my Mom…well, Helen’s Momma!!
Beautiful. Wise. Triple threat. Graceful. Regal. In all her glory. But as it is with any queen mother…not to be messed with 😉!
2. Now that I can finally and formally say something: Ms. Janet, Welcome to the best little town (outside of Bel Air 😉). I can’t tell you how honored we all are to know that you are of #Serenity… that you are responsible for raising HELEN to be who she is. And that you’re the one who will lovingly snatch her back if and when a snatchback is required!
3. #JanetHubert also plays @gabunion’s mom in #ThePerfectFind, also on @netflix. So, I think that makes us sisters. Which means…I’m heading over to raid her closet!! 😄
4. 13 days and counting until we’re…
🎵Back to life. Back to Serenity🎶!
‘Told my sweet #son about a tradition we had when I was a girl in #Trinidad.
We’d go to church on the 31st (Old Year’s Night, as we call it), welcome the new year at midnight, send the old people home (and at that time in my life, I believe that included anyone over 35 🤦🏽♀️), and then stay up all night playing games. The end of the celebration came with a welcome of the first sunrise of the new year. It was always a highlight for me!
Our son looked at me and said,
we’re doing it!
Now that I’m OLD, I made it to midnight.
His brother made it to 3am.
But our oldest did it.
I told him to wake me up right before sunrise so we could welcome the sun together.
And we did!!
New #tradition made!!
I’m praying for so much for and over my #family this year. ‘So much…
But I pray we also have countless more moments like these.
It’s already been a beautiful New Day…
Happy New Year to you all.
2024 (😳)
🎉
(Jeremiah 29:11)
#happynewyear #2024 #mommydays
‘Told my sweet #son about a tradition we had when I was a girl in #Trinidad.
We’d go to church on the 31st (Old Year’s Night, as we call it), welcome the new year at midnight, send the old people home (and at that time in my life, I believe that included anyone over 35 🤦🏽♀️), and then stay up all night playing games. The end of the celebration came with a welcome of the first sunrise of the new year. It was always a highlight for me!
Our son looked at me and said,
we’re doing it!
Now that I’m OLD, I made it to midnight.
His brother made it to 3am.
But our oldest did it.
I told him to wake me up right before sunrise so we could welcome the sun together.
And we did!!
New #tradition made!!
I’m praying for so much for and over my #family this year. ‘So much…
But I pray we also have countless more moments like these.
It’s already been a beautiful New Day…
Happy New Year to you all.
2024 (😳)
🎉
(Jeremiah 29:11)
#happynewyear #2024 #mommydays
My in-loves live in the countryside. Every few years, a fawn gets abandoned, and my sweet Father-in-love takes over and raises it until its ready to be sent back to the woods. This year, they have these two. And with the treatment, care, and love they’re getting, they may never leave this family.
I wouldn’t.
Actually…I haven’t 😄!
#happymonday #deer #countrylife
My in-loves live in the countryside. Every few years, a fawn gets abandoned, and my sweet Father-in-love takes over and raises it until its ready to be sent back to the woods. This year, they have these two. And with the treatment, care, and love they’re getting, they may never leave this family.
I wouldn’t.
Actually…I haven’t 😄!
#happymonday #deer #countrylife
My in-loves live in the countryside. Every few years, a fawn gets abandoned, and my sweet Father-in-love takes over and raises it until its ready to be sent back to the woods. This year, they have these two. And with the treatment, care, and love they’re getting, they may never leave this family.
I wouldn’t.
Actually…I haven’t 😄!
#happymonday #deer #countrylife
Back in MY day, #school started in #september. Yep! That’s how old I am 😄! I’ll miss them…But, I think we’re all ready, and excited that school is starting again. I love that they #enjoy school. I love that they #love each other.
‘Praying (and so #grateful) for the #teachers. Praying for the #students. The #administrators. The #staff. For safety and protection. For chances for them to show love and kindness to others. And for them to always recognize and be grateful when the same is shown to them. Praying for an AMAZING year!
Praying it for all our #kids.
#backtoschool
#mommydays
#boymom 💙🩵
The needs of #Helen today…
A book, script sides, a snack, water, and a quiet place to sit!
@sweetmagnoliasnetflix #sweetmagnolias
I’m so grateful for this little space…and all that comes from it, and with it….
#happymonday
My voice is a giving a little attitude, so I’m in athletic mode…two-a-days (at least). So, here’s the second warm up of the day, because next #Sunday…
It’s #Chicago.
It’s #Ravinia
It’s the @chicagosymphony
With @marinalsop.conductor
And a surprise guest I invited, who I can’t wait to share the stage with, and who told me to #strapin because we are getting ready to #SING!!
So, I’m #warmingup!
#happysunday
My voice is a giving a little attitude, so I’m in athletic mode…two-a-days (at least). So, here’s the second warm up of the day, because next #Sunday…
It’s #Chicago.
It’s #Ravinia
It’s the @chicagosymphony
With @marinalsop.conductor
And a surprise guest I invited, who I can’t wait to share the stage with, and who told me to #strapin because we are getting ready to #SING!!
So, I’m #warmingup!
#happysunday
Growing up in Trinidad, this was one of my dreams: To have the grades, ability, finances, opportunity to one day be able to attend the University of the West Indies.
We moved to America, and my educational journey took me to another amazing institution, but UWI, still stirs up something in me.
I know prominent people of #Trinidad, the #Caribbean, and beyond who have gone there. I have family members who have studied there. Even work there.
So, you can imagine how humbled I am to be honored in such a way by the university. It’s amazing to be in such a company of Caribbean notables, and also to join with the graduating class as they begin their own notable journeys outside of the university.
Thanks to #UWI.
I’m going to make my children call me Dr. Headley…just because I feel like they should. They should be relieved. They were getting so aggravated every time I demanded they refer to me as, Your Royal Highness 😄!
@uwi_staugustine @loopnewstt
This little one wants my job…
And I have a feeling that one day, she just may get it!
Until then, I’ll try my best to keep it…I’ll just have to get as cute as she is 😆!
#iloveher #mommydays @indysymphony #happysunday
Ladies…It’s my time of the month!
Well…my time of the year!
For days before I walk up to this machine, I’m nervous. Anxious. Praying. I’m so aware of the women and their stories, the relief, the concern they must have as I sit in the waiting room with them, dressed in my pink gown, carrying my own story. My own concern. My own relief. I have friends, strong beautiful, amazing women, who have been stung by this disease. And like the warrior women they are, they fought back…and fought well. In their honor, for my family, and as a responsible steward of my own body, I check in and check ‘them’ out.
Remember to check your girls out too…however you choose to…
The girls deserve the attention 😉!
(I told the sweet nurse I was going to get something indulgent now that it was over. She recommended a coffee…I was thinking fries and carbs 🤷🏽♀️! )
#breastcancerawareness
#women
🩷
My #mom started me in #pianolessons when I was 4yrs old. She put money aside so that I could have lessons every week. A sweet woman named Ms. Joseph taught me even when my little fingers were too short to reach the octaves. I could be headstrong and a little sassy (all ‘fixed’ in private by my parents after my lessons 😆), but Ms. Joseph stuck with me, and taught me until she couldn’t. My mom added our lessons to her already-tight budget, and made sure my brother and I had our music lessons through high school.
That gift from my Mommy is one I still ‘open’ to this day.
As I watch our 4yr old little one and her sweet teacher, I can’t help but be grateful for patient, kind, #piano #teachers, who make music fun, yet functional. I’m not sure I could reach my own children 😆!
I know what a gift music is!! And hopefully, in years to come, maybe she’ll recognize the same. 🎹
