Smells as though one of our immediate neighbours must have had a raging fire last night, as the distinct odours of wood ash is carried on the wind straight through all of the open windows of our house. Smells like the cottage if I’m being honest. If I could hear lapping waves, or the extremely loud caw of black birds I’d be up north.
Since dance season is finally over I thought I would trim my daughters hair to even it out. I took a palm width worth off the length for my oldest daughter. And it looks lovely. Contrary to popular belief it does not appear as though I chopped at it with a weed whacker. I took my time, lined it up. Brushed it out, and started by taking just a little in case I was being too aggressive to start with. It still ponytails with ease, and looks even, and is currently knot free. Bonus!
The youngest is another matter. She doesn’t spend any time of her own maintaining her hair. At all. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. The older one just this year started to tame her own head after nearly a decade of fighting with us about it. Thank the gods! But the young one is mostly feral, and has more hair than she knows what to do with. And, since the restrictions from dance, about drastically altering their appearance prior to the big recital weekend have been lifted. Time to cut, cut, cut that mop. But! She has to sit for a detangle first. Which will be her mother’s job. I go too fast, and tend towards roughness. I don6have three hours to tip toe through it, and still not finish. I’ll take 15-20 minutes, cause tears, but will get done, and can move on with our day. I get why I’m not the first option, but rather a last resort. Ha. But I will be wielding the scissors! I cut a fair ole chunk off last time I cut her hair. It looked fabulous, and plenty agreed. I think she should go for a Bob, or pixie cut. But the Bob is a stretch of my acumen, and the pixie is beyond me. I don’t think I could achieve it with clippers, scissors and YouTube. Maybe with a few additional heads to practice on. But likely not.
Saturday is finally here. Sunny and warm with the sweltering heat to follow on Monday. I spent a good portion of yesterday doing some tidying up as we’ve got family visiting next weekend. Plus I have two years of school work to sort through & recycle that which doesn’t need to be kept. Old toys to organize. Junk to throw away. Same as always. Looks like I’ll need to wait for September to do any real damage around here. Kids are too attached to crap if you ask me.
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