At the beginning of all of this I realized quickly that I needed to pick my battles, and one of the battles that I just wasn’t up for fighting was getting Sophie to brush her hair. She constantly needs to be reminded to brush her hair, and even then it doesn’t happen regularly. She has very thick hair that gets knotted easily, and if I try to brush it major drama ensues. So, after a week or so I just threw in the towel and stopped pestering her. And here’s what happened…
It was bad. Really, it was beyond bad. Dreads had started to form. Attempting to brush it was out of the question. Cutting was the only option. It took several days to talking about it before Sophie agreed to let me do it. I wasn’t super comfortable, it was a lot of hair, but it had to be done. I watched a lot of home haircut YouTube videos first.
Here’s how it turned out. Not too bad if I do say so myself! Once it was all off of her head she was really happy. I think it felt really good.
And not to be left out, Lauren also wanted a cut. I took off a few inches, but was nervous to do too much more. She really wants it as short as Sophie’s, but I’m not confident that I could recreate that again.
We’re all anxiously awaiting salons to open again so that mom doesn’t have to be the resident hairdresser for much longer. And honestly, no one wants them open more than me, as I’m starting to see just how gray I really am!