Self Hair Cuts

At 13, 12, 9 and 8, I thought my kids were all past the self hair cuts stage.  Well apparently not. I noticed that Libby had been wearing weird clips in the front of her hair.  Then I was looking at her phone the other day and there are pictures on there of her with bangs!! Now she had asked me several times if she could get some bangs cut, and I had expressly said no.

I asked about the pictures on her camera.  And she tried to tell me that she'd just flipper her hair over from the back of her head to LOOK like bangs.  I made her take the hair clips out....and THIS is what I saw.  Unbelievable!!!!

Since she decided on her own to cut it, I made her go to school this way today.  She also permanently lost her Facebook this weekend for harassing other people on the internet!

Bored in School

We are hving problems with Carlie in 1st grade this year. They have to "pull a stick" when they get in trouble. If they pull two sticks they lose 5 miutes of recess time. We'll she gets bored and then gets in trouble. I'd say three out of five days a week she loses recess time. Her teacher sends a note home every week. This weeks's note said "Carlie made the decision to give herself a small haircut with her scissors. She lost her scissors for the remainder of the day. Hopefully she will not make this choice again. She has assured me she will not."

Sigh. Why can't they just figure out they need to keep her busy and challenged!!!

Beauty Shop

The little girls decided that they wanted their hair cut short like Libby's. So one evening this week, we went to the beauty school. We had such a great time. They spent two hours on us. I got my hair washed and styled. They washed the girls' hair and gave them scalp massages. And they little girls had the beauty school students laughing like crazy.

Carlie told them that SHE wants to fix hair when she grows up. When she sat down in the chair, she told them that she'd like a little color too. I nixed the idea of color. Carlie told me that when she moves out of my house she's going to get her hair colored...maybe with a little pink. She inspected all of the mannequins that the students work on, and went through all of the building to see how things worked.

Madi had them waiting on her hand and foot....spinning her in the chair bringing her water.

I asked when we left if they'd had a good time, and Carlie said "TOTALLY!!!"

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

I haven't posted in a while. It's been a rough couple of weeks. March always seems like a stormy month for me. But here is a quick glimpse of what's going on

The Good (I think anyway) - I got a sassy new hair cut

The Bad - Frank has a patch of Eczema in his eyebrow and managed to rub one whole eyebrow off

The Ugly - Libby had a bike wreck and broke off half of one of her permanent teeth

All of this happened on the SAME DAY!!!!! Calgon take me AWAY!!!!!