The Final Transformation...

I took my tween queen down for her lowlights today...we kept it very subtle which keeps mom happy and she is thrilled!!

 

 

Now I'm really going to have to lock her up!!

Visits from Florida and a story about hair....

 

Here's the one and only picture that I took while Heather was out in Phoenix!! We were just too busy having FUN!! In case anyone wondered we had a fantastic time and are impatiently awaiting our trip out to Florida!!

In other news...Many of you know my oldest, VERY LONG HAIRED daughter....WELL....

 

We visited the hair dresser today for a "trim"....

 

Yes there is a story behind it...

 

So do you want to know the story of the girl who SWORE she would NEVER cut her 25 inches from root to tip hair??

I was taking her for a trim...seriously, only an inch or two to get rid of the dead ends...but we had to stop at Walmart first because I had promised dd#4 a jumprope and I figured she could jump rope in front of the haircut store while dd#1 was getting her trim.

...fast forward to Walmart and my almost teenage dd#1 dragging me across the store to the hair coloring aisle...(background: dd#1 has wanted streaks aka lowlights in her hair for months)...to show me the color she wanted her hair to be. Well, I looked at her and asked if she was going to cut her hair because the cost of putting lowlights in a 25 inch tangled mane was as much as I made in a month.

Needless to say she was horrified and told me that she was NEVER going to EVER cut her hair. End of story.

Until we get to the hair cutting place.

Until she asks the hair dresser how short her hair would have to be to donate it to Locks of Love.

To make a very very long story short, Miss Thing chopped her hair off, donated TWO ponytails to Locks of Love, and I am now in debt for one lowlights dye job!!

She was very nervous when they first cut it...then she started jabbering...

"It's a HUNDRED pounds lighter MOM!! I don't think I'm going to get as many headaches MOM!! It's going to be SO MUCH easier to take care of MOM! WHY are you smiling like that Mom?!? What??"

Could it be that I've told her all these things and more over the past year of I will NEVER cut my hair land??

"You know MOM, it's not fair that you're always right"

Yes.

She did say that.

I'm recording it so she can read it later.

Then she looked at me and asked, "So when can I get contacts?"

It's going to be a long 7 years.