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Sep. 15th, 2005 06:07 pmI did not know I was so vain about my children. I need to repent of this sin. And I will as soon as I quit crying.
I cut the girls hair today. Well, I cut Zoe's bangs, and trimmed Luci's all the way around. I like to keep Luci's short as her hair is thin and fine and crazy. Mari and Zoe have both agreed to growing their hair out long, but we decided that Zoe needed to keep bangs and Mari's bangs should be grown out. Then, after the haircuts were over, I let the girls go upstairs to play in their room. I know this is a mistake. It always is. I cannot think of one single time I have let them all go upstairs and play in their room together that I have not regretted. But the lure of peace and quiet to get dinner ready was too powerful. Apparently, Zoe snuck a pair of their preschool scissors from the craft drawer upstairs with them. I did not know this. Another oversight.
At dinner tonight, I was looking at Luci and Mari, thinking they both looked really weird. I kept looking at Luci and thinking "I know I cut her hair short, but I didn't think I cut it THAT short. It looks strange. What did I do wrong?" Mari's hair was all down and wild from playing, so I couldn't tell what was wrong except that her fact looked "funny". It wasn't until I started putting Mari's hair into a ponytail, getting her ready to go with her daddy to her first soccor "practice", that I figured it out. Underneath a layer of very long, growing out bangs, a huge chunk of hair had been shorn very close to her scalp. It is less than an inch long. A big bunch. when I brushed her hair back for the ponytail and saw it I gasped and immediately teared up. Then I knew what was wrong with Luci. The same thing had happened to an underlayer of her bangs and several clumps on top making the shorn pieces stick straight up. I asked them what happened and Mari said "Zoe cut it."
Zoe's hair is fine. No one cut hers. But the other girls are going to look very strange for a very long time. I suppose this is just a right of passage. I remember talking to my sister when my niece cut her own hair and wondering how my neice got ahold of scissors. I kept all the scissors put away where the girls couldn't get them. But recently, they have wanted them for lots of little projects they do and I got tired of getting them out, and just put them where they (the older girls, not Luci) could get them. They always use them at the kitchen table under my supervision. I've never known them to take the scissors anywhere else.
Now I will pray for forgiveness for the unbelievable vanity that is making me grieve so ridiculously long and hard over my children's hair.
I cut the girls hair today. Well, I cut Zoe's bangs, and trimmed Luci's all the way around. I like to keep Luci's short as her hair is thin and fine and crazy. Mari and Zoe have both agreed to growing their hair out long, but we decided that Zoe needed to keep bangs and Mari's bangs should be grown out. Then, after the haircuts were over, I let the girls go upstairs to play in their room. I know this is a mistake. It always is. I cannot think of one single time I have let them all go upstairs and play in their room together that I have not regretted. But the lure of peace and quiet to get dinner ready was too powerful. Apparently, Zoe snuck a pair of their preschool scissors from the craft drawer upstairs with them. I did not know this. Another oversight.
At dinner tonight, I was looking at Luci and Mari, thinking they both looked really weird. I kept looking at Luci and thinking "I know I cut her hair short, but I didn't think I cut it THAT short. It looks strange. What did I do wrong?" Mari's hair was all down and wild from playing, so I couldn't tell what was wrong except that her fact looked "funny". It wasn't until I started putting Mari's hair into a ponytail, getting her ready to go with her daddy to her first soccor "practice", that I figured it out. Underneath a layer of very long, growing out bangs, a huge chunk of hair had been shorn very close to her scalp. It is less than an inch long. A big bunch. when I brushed her hair back for the ponytail and saw it I gasped and immediately teared up. Then I knew what was wrong with Luci. The same thing had happened to an underlayer of her bangs and several clumps on top making the shorn pieces stick straight up. I asked them what happened and Mari said "Zoe cut it."
Zoe's hair is fine. No one cut hers. But the other girls are going to look very strange for a very long time. I suppose this is just a right of passage. I remember talking to my sister when my niece cut her own hair and wondering how my neice got ahold of scissors. I kept all the scissors put away where the girls couldn't get them. But recently, they have wanted them for lots of little projects they do and I got tired of getting them out, and just put them where they (the older girls, not Luci) could get them. They always use them at the kitchen table under my supervision. I've never known them to take the scissors anywhere else.
Now I will pray for forgiveness for the unbelievable vanity that is making me grieve so ridiculously long and hard over my children's hair.
