Since I've been lacking in material for my blog posts recently, I thought I'd post about some
hair-raising changes around here.
First, I was surprised over the summer when Hannah willingly asked me to try a hairstyle she had seen on a Web site for church one Sunday. She rarely lets me do anything with her hair -- not that I'm not willing to try, despite my dire lack of hairstyling experience -- she just doesn't want to bother. So it was fun to do something with it -- and it turned out really cute!
That same Sunday, Courtney and Hayley also picked out a "short hair" style from the same web site -- mini-heart pigtails. They were happy with it, but I didn't think it was nearly as cute as Hannah's. Short hair is harder to style!
Then just before school started, I had my sister-in-law come over to give the girls haircuts. I mentioned how Hayley had a very bad habit of constantly chewing her hair and I was hopeful a shorter cut would help discourage this practice. Julie suggested giving her bangs -- she thought it would be cute and would help with the hair chewing. Hayley was very reluctant at first, but we finally convinced (okay, bribed) her to try it.
As soon as they were cut, she immediately told me she didn't like the bangs and to please get rid of them. She thought we could just completely cut them off the rest of the way. Courtney said she also didn't like them, so that made Hayley complain even more. For the next several days, Hayley insisted that I clip her bangs to the side.
Now I think everybody is used to her bangs (I do think they're cute!) and for the time being she is happy to have bangs, although she told me she wants to grow them out again.
And finally, I hit my 40th birthday and decided it was time to dye my hair -- something I have never done before! I was getting discouraged by all the gray hair making its appearance, so I asked my niece (who went to beauty school) if she'd help me out. She helped pick out a color that we thought was close to my natural color and she went to work! I forgot to get a picture after she was done coloring, cutting and styling (of course, I can never get it to style the same way). I have been letting my hair grow out so I can pull it back in a ponytail for exercising. It's not super long yet, but it's about as long as I've ever had it.
The only recent picture I could find of me was one that McKay took when he was messing around with the camera the other night. It's not a good picture, and my hair is pulled back, but you can at least see the pretty (mostly non-gray) color!
You'd think with 3 girls I'd be better at fixing hair, but I've got a long ways to go still. I'm usually feeling good if everybody at least gets a brush through their hair before heading out the door in the morning!
