Time for a Change: New Haircut

While many of you woke up this morning with change on your minds, I have a feeling it was a bit of a different change than the one that occurred in my house today.  While everyone was rushing out to vote, I was driving my 6-year old to a salon to make her very own change.  Katelynn has been asking to chop off her hair since May.  I am not even joking.  She used to not want to even get it trimmed because she wanted it long and then all of a sudden when she and I went to get our haircut prior to going on our cruise, she requested that we chop it short.  I thought it was a random idea she came up with and pushed her that day to not go too short just yet.  I honestly thought she would change her mind.  Somehow my kids always get an idea stuck in their heads though and don't give it up until they get it.  (Gee, I don't know where they got that one from!)  So, we have occassionally heard about this haircut idea but never acted on it. 

Today Katelynn didn't have school, but Justin did.  This is very unusual for me to have Katelynn and Ryan home with me and not Justin.  In fact, it's the very first time Justin has ever went to school and Katelynn stayed home.  I made a big to-do over the fact that it could be a special morning for Katelynn (who was sulking that she didn't get to go to school) and asked her what she wanted to do.  She immediately said, "I want to get my hair cut short!"  (This was this weekend when we were discussing what we would do on Tuesday.)  So, after double and triple checking that this was really what she wanted once the day was here, we headed off to get her hair cut.  She started talking about going to her ears, but I persuaded her to stick to around her chin area.  It is such a change!  I imagine it will be much easier to brush, but there will no longer be any ponytails or braids for a while!

Katelynn seems to love her new hair cut.  There was a moment this evening when she asked me what we would do if she didn't like it.   I told her that once it was cut, we just had to wait for it to grow longer again if she thought it was too short.  She says she just wanted it a centimeter longer; I told her she'll get that centimeter in the next week or two, but she is still smiling and enjoying her new hair.