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I have come here to write approximately 700 times since my last post and I just never know what to say. So this is going to be a picture post. A segue. I hope it will be enough to get me passed the inability to post.

I cut G's hair.

This is what it looked like a few days ago.

I'd been threatening to cut it for weeks. For some reason I was putting it off. I think I am growing more sentimental in my thirties! (Didn't know that was possible, I am sort of a sap already.) But I knew it needed to be done. The thought was becoming pervasive. She spent so much of her time with her hair wound tightly in a bun or in Laura Ingalls Wilder-style braids just to keep it out of her face.

It was getting hard to manage, and it was WAY too long for her to manage at all. It looked GORGEOUS when it was down, but she could only really wear it down after baths for an hour or so before I would need to braid it or put it up before bed lest she wake up with a real problem on her head!

I am so glad I did it. While I was quite fond of her braids, it was getting too unmanageable. It would go into into her sleeves when she was dressing and it was a doozy to keep clean when she had a runny nose or ate almost anything. Same old story. It's not like it's the first time I've cut her hair or anything. Her hair grows fast!

I am not even one of those "a girl's hair must be long" people. I have short hair. Spent much of my childhood with short hair that I asked for myself. So. I must just be a little wacky-woo-woo lately. I wasn't really looking forward to the actual cutting, either, because it's never been one of G's favorite things (to put it lightly) in the past, but I have to tell you she didn't fight or make a peep (thank you, iPod).

I decided to just take a little off this time. That's new for me. I am usually an all or nothing gal. If you're going to cut it, cut it. And all that. But, my first cuts came out pretty well and I coud tell it was more manageable instantly. So I decided to sit on it (like G could practiacally do with it already) for a few days and see what we think. When the pool opens up, I think I'll go shorter. It's just so much easier when she's in the water to have shorter hair. Maybe I'll give her another bob then, but for now, it's still fairly long. Especially considering I cut 6-8 inches off!

(There, I did it, I came out from blog hiding.)

Comments

[RK]

Love it! So good a length for her, but then it's almost exactly what I just had done on B, so I might be biased. And goodness, if she doesn't remind me of Braska a ton in that last picture. I see that exactly look so many times a day. Georgia wears it well!

(And I always love when you come out of blog hiding... so yay!)

[Jaida]

Hooray! I come back often to check and see whether you've rejoined us.

Georgia looks absolutely beautiful!! She's just a month younger than my son and I've been noticing lately how mature he suddenly looks. Same for her.

[starrlife]

Copy cat :) Kayli has a new, shoulder length bob, have you seen it on FB? I felt exactly the same way about cutting it- what is that about? It's like some threshold has been crossed and I can never go back.... weird. She looks adorable!
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