Been Too Long

This is what we looked like this morning. About 4 years ago (when I was pregnant with LM), my MIL's best friend, Ms. Kathryn was diagnosed with lymphoma and while she was undergoing treatment, she (like many) lost all of her hair. I usually have long, lucious locks (which DM loves) but I really felt like I wanted to do something, so I scheduled a haircut and chopped it all off. Pantene Beautiful Lengths makes free wigs for women who lose their hair due to cancer and they only require 8" (not 11" like Locks of Love), so I chopped off exactly 8". I prefer my hair shorter and DM likes it longer, so I grew it out again and chopped it all off again two summers ago (09.) I even got BigM to do it with me that time. She looked adorable with her lil summer bob.

It's been about time to cut it (donate- yes, that's the only time I ever get my haircut- sad, I know) again so I've been asking BigM if she wanted to do it again for a few months now. "No, I want long hair like {insert names of 3-4 classmates with hair practically long enough to sit on.}" Well that's all fine and good if you have long, lucious locks like {insert names of 3-4 of BigM's classmates} but unfortunately, BigM inherited very fine hair so it gets tangled really easily.

It's always some major drama to comb it in the mornings, which usually ends up in tears and a stern talking to from Mama. "Part of having long hair is having it brushed so you don't look like a homeless person. If you are going to whine abou having it combed, we will skip school this morning and go straight to the salon and have them chop all your hair off."

That usually ends up in wails of "But then my hair won't be long like {insert names of 3 - 4 of BigM's classmates}" and a promise to tough it out.

Well, on Monday during my routine speech, BigM said, "Okay. I want it cut off. Today. Right after school."

I could not get on the phone fast enough- as soon as the salon opened, I scheduled appointments for both of us.

No turning back...

You turn... better be sure about this...

(I love that she still looks like a little girl in this picture, because...)

she CERTAINLY doesn't look little here:

So we're ready to mail off our ponytails and we're both thrilled to start the summer off with our cute new bobs.

When I picked BigM up from school, I asked her what her friends said about her new 'do.

"Well, some of them liked it and L said she wanted her hair cut just like mine." Way to be a trendsetter, girlfriend!