The Hair Cut

As a mom - I do the best I can.  Sometimes I have #momfails sometimes I get things right!!  Other times - I am just trying to keep these humans alive!  Just when I think I started to get a handle on things...Sissy goes and throws me off my game!! 

We all hear the dreaded horror stories of our precious children cutting their own hair!!  Now don't get me wrong - I wasn't thinking that this wasn't going to happen to me - but I was surely hoping that it wouldn't!! And then it did!!  Just when I was thinking - man we made it to 4-3/4 years old with Sissy and she hasn't cut her hair once.  Maybe we will be one of  the lucky ones and she never will!!  This mama thought way too soon!!

It all started two days before Christmas.  We were hanging out at home, kids playing, getting ready for the holidays, probably doing a load or two of laundry.  Sissy asked if she could watch Disney as it was getting close to bed time.  I turned on the t.v. in our bedroom and off I went to switch clothes to the dryer or something.  A bit later I can back in the room and something caught my eye.  Something did not look right!!  That's when I noticed!! In complete and total mom panic- I asked - "Did you cut your hair?"  In which Sissy responded with hiding under the covers.  Well if that isn't a giveaway I don't know what is!!  

I will admit my reaction was less than stellar - I freaked out!!  Especially when I saw how much of her hair she cut!!  It was the back, the sides, and the bangs - oh the bangs!!  I lost it - I cried, she cried, my husband thought we were both nuts!! It was a very traumatic evening in our house!  

Below are the pictures of the haircut!!  

The first photo being what her hair looked like a few days before!

(not the greatest but it will give you an idea)

And now the new hair cut!! 

After these photos - I did my best to fix it up as much as possible! We cut off the one long strand in the back to make it even and did a little touch up on the sides.  It took about a full day before I could laugh about it and say it was only a matter of time. 

A few weeks later at the start of EAK in January.  

Fast forward to 9 months later and we have made progress...

I know that I am not the only mama out there to go through this!!  Do you have a funny story to share?

A Day of Firsts...

So it's no secret that I am terrible at consistent posting (or posting at all for that matter).

Many times I feel like I want to or need to write a post but then I think - what would I write about?  What would I share? So I think it needs to be more about remembering.  I am terrible about writing things down about the kids - things they do, things they say, accomplishments, failures - so many things.  So we will start with last year's (yes one year ago) First Day of School!!

Sissy - had her last 1st day of preschool.  She was wrapping up her time there to move on to EAK in January of 2018.  We loved her preschool - she had the same teacher as her older brother.    

Kid Clammy - he is headed to First Grade.  How can this be!?!?!  I know everyone says "time flies" - but it really is no joke about how fast it really does go!

We were very excited for Kid Clammy to have his same teacher from Kinder!! She moved up to 1st grade this year and we are very happy about it!!

2018

To start out 2018 Sissy headed to EAK - Early Admission Kindergarten. She was very excited to start school.  This meant a new school, new teacher and a new haircut - that she gave herself.  (hopefully a whole other post coming on that).  

Sissy had a great time in EAK.  She loved her teacher, made new friends, and learned a bunch!! She is ready for Kinder - although I am not sure that I am.  

Fast Forward to September...

Moving on to a whole new school year... Kid Clammy is in Second Grade and so far we are off to a great start!  A new teacher this year that I think will be very good for him.  Sometimes we struggle with behavior in school (and out) so here's to hoping that a new teacher, new classroom management and probably a new teaching style will be a good thing for this guy!

This girl - my heart aches for how fast the time goes.  Can't believe my baby girl is an official Kindergartner.  She was so excited that her teacher from EAK was moving to her new school (same school as her brother).  She was even more excited to see a few familiar faces of her friends from EAK. 

Here's to a great school year my darling babes!!