Hairology

**Warning, this is a long post. I know how many people hate long posts. Mostly, I do too. Keep in mind, this blog is somewhat a journal and venting/expressing feelings type place for me. Bear with me! ;) xoxo (just like with the forever long Abe post, I made bold words so you can skim thru and make a little sense of it.)

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

~Martin Luther

So, the other day I was doing Maddie's hair and the elastic broke. I ran over to the counter for another one. When I turned back around, there was her hair straight up, just the way I must have left it. It made me laugh, so I grabbed the camera and took a picture. Gotta love the tongue! Her hair is getting loooong.


Me n Dylan finally got our hair cut this past week. It was MUCH needed. My sister-in-law, Jessica does our hair. She had back surgery this past January. I was waiting for her to get back on her feet. I let our poor hair suffer a bit too much. Especially Dylan's. What can I say, I just like his hair SHORT. He does some funny faces when he's getting his picture taken. This is him saying cheese. Trying a little too hard to smile. :)

A before shot.

After.

Ahhh, better.

Jess had it in a cute faux hawk. But this is undone.

Ok, so I will not deny for a minute that I blog about weird things. I have been contemplating starting another one that's made private just for me so I can put my strange thoughts and ramblings. Maybe I should just get into gear and start writing in my journal again. Until then, blogging is my journal. Since we are on the subject of hair I am going to take you on a journey back. This journey only goes back a few years. Any further and it would be too scary! Crazy perms, tall TALL hair, and bad home bleach jobs.

This above picture was taken in May of 2005. That's my niece EmmaLee. This is the day her lil sis was born and we were hanging around her house waiting. This is how I picture myself. It's who I think I am. And what I look like in my mind. I am blond. I am tan. I have long hair.

Me and Em in 2006. She's always been my little bud.

Blond. Tan. Long hair.

Shortly after that pic of me and EmmaLee was taken in Yellowstone, I colored my hair dark. A lot of people think this is closer to my real hair color b/c my eyebrows are so dark. My eyebrows have always been real dark. When I was a pre-teen I had an aunt insist that I used eyebrow pencil on them since my hair was blond and my brows dark. My hair has gone a lot darker since then. No doubt I am not a blond any longer. I am light brown. I loved this transition form light to dark. It made my eyes stand out and was good for my skin complexion. Honestly, this was a dark period of my life. It was right before I found out about my son.(that we were finally going to be able to start our family!) We had been thru so much. Emotionally I was drained. We had been picked and then the baby passed away. We had been picked again by a flip flopper who decided to keep the baby, we had several other girls interested in us that decided to keep or place with someone else. I think there were 4 serious "almosts" and then other inquiries that were not as serious. It all took a toll. I wonder if the dark hair was just my state of mind...But, after the sun came back out, and my babies were born I kept the dark hair b/c I rather liked it. By the way, every moment of heart beak and utter despair were one million percent worth it. I would not change my journey or the outcome for all the gold in the world.

November 2006.

The state of my hair at the time my babes were born.

June 2007.

Getting longer!

August 2007.

Actually trimmed a bit since the above picture in June.

November 2007.

Chopped her all off! But I probably did not let Jessica cut enough. I am an idiot when it comes to styling my hair. This picture reminds me of that episode of Friends when Phoebe cuts Monica's hair and she says she looks like Dudley Moore. I feel like I look like Dudley Moore. Of course no fault of any ones, just my lack of knowing how to do my own hair.

May 2008.

Shortest my hair has ever been. It was shaved what I call "boy short" in the back. I regret not getting a picture of the back. It was a lot shorter than what you can tell in this picture. I actually love dark, dark hair in a dramatic A-line and with a lot of attitude. Maybe someday I will try that. I just missed pulling it back into a ponytail too much. And of course, there is that problem of not being capable of styling my own hair! :) My hair is just pretty slow growin so it is hard to go back and forth the way some people can in a years time.

July 2008.

30th birthday. Enough said.

But I LOVED this.

October 2008

February 2009

Today. February 21 2009.

Probably no one really read all that blah, blah, BLAH! But, what do you think: Long, Short, Dark, Light? Now the tan, that needs to make a come back to this white skin no matter what. And yes, your hair should not be long unless it is healthy. That's why I had to chop it off. I think getting older has made my hair is significantly drier :*(

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness?

~Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.

~Shana Alexander