Beauty Parlour

Leaving my kids to play "house" in Lexi's room while I hurried and worked on an Usborne order, I noticed I hadn't heard Lexi screaming about Skye not sharing with her, which was unusual, so I thought I'd check in on them and see how things were going. Alexis met me halfway down the stairs as I was coming up and I thought "her hair looks a little different...not as cute as it was when I put the clips in this morning". And indeed, to my utter surprise and discouragement, it was different, and completely irreparable. On the other hand, Skye's new set of bangs is her grandma's dream come true- grandma never did like the bangs in her face anyway. Thank heavens we got our family pictures done last month! At least we have a nostalgic memory on our wall of Lexi's old cute haircut for the next year.

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If you've read "The Secret" and know about the law of attraction, you won't be surprised at how this came to be. You see, my relationship with Lexi has been strained over the past year due to the fact that I'm the one who has to comb her hair. Nothing works: treats, magnets, incentives of any kind, not even force- although at least her hair gets combed that way. Anyway, a couple of days ago, I was doing a homeshow and the lady's daughter had short, spiky hair of which I shared my opinion of how nice that haircut would be for my daughter (for the previously mentioned reason). The lady told me how a neighbor kid had cut her daughter's hair, and pointed to a recent photo of a 3 year old with long, flowing blonde hair. I just kind of laughed with surprise and joked that I thought it would be great if something like that would happen to my Lexi so our mornings could be more peaceful. Well now I know there is truth in the phrase "Be careful what you wish for".


How am I going to fix this?