With each successive kid, some new aspect of the morning routine has gone out the window. With C, it was making the bed. (Come to think of it, I was never very regular with that Sisyphean task.)
With M, it was wearing contact lenses.
With J, it has been messing with my hair. I pretty much wash and go. I don’t love the way it looks but I can’t spare the energy to care.
However, today I noticed a small cluster of grey hairs near the front of my head. I have random greys all over, but this morning they had gotten together for a coffee klatch.
In other news, C came home from day care last night wanting to make a big ear out of construction paper. Her plan is to bring it to L’s house so that if anyone wants to tattle, they can just talk to the ear. Quite the problem-solver.
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Actually, that ear thing sounds really good for my preschool class. I have a couple of tattlers in my room. I think I will put up and ear for some of my kids to bend.
Tell C thank you.
i’ll always recall a visit to our dear old pediatrician. at one point he looked at our 3 young kids and told them seriously that thier mom had earned each of her gray hairs by loving them so much. now my head is almost completely gray and our 3 kids are adults. . . and two of them are married w/ homes of their own and we have 5 grandpets (but no grandkids yet) and the love goes on.
the important rule for a wash and wear hair do is to find a person who cuts short straight hair w/ great care and style. when i moved down to the exurbs i looked around for someone w/ hair like mine who sported a great haircut and asked where it had been cut. i had to try 3 times before finding a local person to cut my hair in a true wash and wear hairdo. and be sure to tell the stylist that you don’t plan to blow it dry (except for your annual anniversary dinner or whatever).
I, too, noticed those grey hairs on your head when I was with you last. Of course, on that, I’m way ahead of you!
I’m getting my hair cut tomorrow and was wracking my brain to come up with a haircut that would be the most forgiving while the grey growing in catches up with the dyed stuff. I thought my problem was solved when I came across a photo of Candice Bergen with her do and was ready to tell the stylist “this is it” until I realized that a certain female candidate for president has the same hairdo.
Back to square one.
Morning routine? What’s that? I’m just a slave to the babies!
I don’t think I have many gray hairs - but I have a lot more scalp than I used to. Which is worse: gray hair or no hair there?
Yeah, I was gonna say. No hair is worse.
With gray, you can spin it as a “silver mane” or “steel-gray tresses.” “Magnificent mottled pink dome” is too much of a stretch.
I color those gray hairs. I tried to let it just be gray several years ago and I hated it. Those few hours at the hair salon were my special treat when my kids were little.
On the other hand…my hair is short…..very, very short. The last time I tried to let it get long Katrina hit. It looked like Hell and it took several months before I could find an open hair dresser and an open road to the hair dresser. Now it stays short.
What is a blow dryer?
I’ve gone gray - the back of the head is still mostly dark brown and the silver in the front looks rather stylish. I stopped dying it when I went to seminary, both for money and for time. I think my haridresser of twelve years would like me to grow my hair longer, but if I can’t wash it, brush it and go, I don’t want it…and the longer it is the more I have to fuss. Unless, of course, I let it grow really long into a braid and look like the love child of the 60’s that I am! Somehow, I think not. I have noticed that as I’ve gotten older (post-menopause) my hair has gotten somewhat thinner. You won’t be facing THAT issue for a long time, my dear. Even a cluster of gray hairs isn’t going to make you look like an older person.
My gray hair starting gathering regularly for coffee after Ian and Emily came home from Guatemala. Or was it when Rosemary started Jr. High? Oh, wait! All that happened at the same time! I used to say that I’d never color my hair. I changed my mind on that one!
As for C’s big ear idea - LOVE it! I want one for my house. My little ones are big-time in the tattle-tale stage. Hmmm . . . if they tell it to the ear, I can eavesdrop and find out what’s really going on behind my back without reinforcing the tattling behavior. Brilliant!
I “conditioned” (coloured) my hair for about ten years, then decided last summer to grow it out and be grey the way God intended me to be. I LOVE it!! It is so liberating not to worry about whether the grey hair is showing through or creating a skunk line down the middle of my scalp.
I think grey is the new blonde.
I love Sue’s attitude! When my roots became gray instead of light brown, I stopped coloring my hair. Having gray hair certainly increases one’s gravitas, which is not a bad thing. Maybe someday I’ll look like Emmylou Harris [insert guffaw here].
I embraced my silverness a long time ago–in high school, when they started appearing. If it gives me gravitas, like Zorra says, so much the better. I’m having a hard time figuring how I can be any more low-maintenance than I already am, but something to save me time in the morning would be a good idea. A short haircut just might do it.
And can I use C’s ear thing at church? Would that cut down on the “folks are saying….” phenomenon?