So yesterday morning was crazy!!  It started off with a million little things we had to get done all before heading off to school…and to top it off…it was picture day!  I had on my calendar that picture day was on Thursday…not Tuesday…and very last minute, the kids informed me otherwise!  Yikes!!!  The school had bumped it up two days and thus threw me into a stressful morning of frantically trying to help my kids find the right outfits to wear, to then miraculously transforming their little bed heads into glorious little “hair-dos”! 🙂  I won’t mention that we have a hairbrush/comb thief who comes each night to hide our hair stuff!!  It takes 10 minutes just to find everything that’s been hidden so I can do my kids hair each day!  But anyway…

What really slowed us down though, was my oldest daughters bangs.  They were way too long… and she just had a haircut a month ago!!  How can they be so long already?!

With only five minutes left before “pile into the car” time, I decided to do a quick “trim” so they’d look nice for pictures.  In a hurry, I wet them, and combed them down straight…just as my own mother used to do to me.  Now, please do not laugh when I tell you how the women in my family “cut hair”.  I took a long piece of scotch tape, and stretched it over her bangs just above her eyebrows.  Once stuck on, I began to trim below the edge. I know…you’re cringing, aren’t you…but that’s how it’s done.  I pulled off the tape only to find that they were now crooked.  Ugh!  Two minutes and counting!!   Trying to look in control of the situation, I tried to straighten them and only made them worse!!!  Oh no!  My daughter smiled up at me knowingly..and even somewhat compassionately…this was not the first time I had done this to her hair, I am embarrassed to say.  I blew them dry and tried to look confident in my abilities…  But the truth is, I can’t cut hair to save my life.  I guess I should have taken the prerequisite course on “Putting the tape on straight” class that was offered to me…

The good thing is, God gave her pretty blue eyes and a winning smile that will distract you from seeing her uneven bangs!!  Next time, I will have a professional take care of her bangs…someone who knows how to make them look straight…my Mom! 🙂

In the meantime…I need a little more practice…anyone need their bangs trimmed?