Hair

Sam came home yesterday with a cute barret that pinned her bangs away from her face.  It was cute. My Mom did it, so of course it was cute.

Hubby says, why can’t you do that??

Well, NOW I can do that.  Since someone ELSE did that.  But I’m just not a HAIR person. I don’t do hair. I don’t do makeup. I suck at it.  He says that since I have hair, I should know what to do. And, to that, I pointed out does it LOOK like I know what to do with my hair? My hair is up in a bun 30 out of 31 days a month. I simply don’t do hair.

Never mind the fact that G tugs on it every time it’s down.  Or my little baby hairs, that I’ve had all my life that float and fly around my hairline are GROWING IN.  It’s the freaking annoyingest thing EVER.  It was always annoying to have baby hairs stick straight up like I had static electricity going on and people would hold their hand over my head. But now that they are actually growing in and looking like real hairs, they are just getting in the way. They keep sticking to my phone cover when I talk on the phone. But they aren’t growing ENOUGH. My hairdresser commented on it to and said that she has some other clients who that has happened to. Silly baby hormones.  Maybe after I stop nursing something will change.

I don’t know if I want the baby hairs back since they were so frail and were not that noticeable, as well as always breaking (I guess – they always just stayed the same). Or if I just want the longer hairs to grow more and get out of my way!

Or I might just chop my hair really short again. I need to loose a few more lbs to have a ‘thinner’ face before I do that though. I’ve lost all my baby weight though, YAY – this next week might not help me though… but I’m down 2 lbs from the start of the month so far.

I was also looking at a picture of myself from almost 12 months after I had Sam. I was still nursing then to. Short hair and about 8lbs less than what I am now.

The thing with cutting my hair short is that it doesn’t allow me to take the lazy way out of putting it up. I usually don’t DO anything with it but at least it hangs down. And it’s so short that it doesn’t get tangled as easily.

Anyway.

Where I’m going with this – or where I WAS going with this – was that I think we are going to try and grow Sam’s bangs out.  With her hair off to the side – which I did again today, with not as great results as my Mom but it lasted ok – you can see her face better and all her facial expressions.

The big problem with that is she has my hair. And my Mom’s hair.  It just hangs. It tangles easily. It doesn’t do anything. It barely has a part.  Maybe when her bangs get longer they will be heavier and we will be able to part her hair better. Right now her part is towards the back of her head so she has so many hairs that hang down as ‘bangs’.

And it will force me to try and ‘do’ something with her hair. Which totally sucks. I am so lame at it. I keep trying to make hubby participate. We know an awesome single Dad who braids, puts bows in, etc!! I keep asking hubby why can’t HE do that. LOL

The other problem is that Sam seems to be taking after me. She doesn’t dress herself. She doesn’t really pick out her clothes (sometimes I ask her and she will hem and haw – but really it’s easier if I choose – especially for weather conditions, etc, and she really doesn’t see to care). I read all the time (maybe I’m reading about YOUR child, who knows, LOL) about little girls who are so GIRLY and dress up in princess outfits, do their hair, etc.  My child does not do this.  She hates having her hair done, just like me. Not especially girly.  Although she does recognize when she is wearing a ‘pretty’ outfit and twirls accordingly. But she never ASKS for the pretty outfit. And doesn’t care if she is wearing it, or a mismatched outfit.

Maybe if I did my hair more, dressed up more, and put on makeup, etc, that would change. But I don’t. So it won’t. Probably.

Oh well.