I guess I missed the troll, couldn't believe my eyes that the WFTD thread had a post removed.
How are you?
How are you?
I'm hanging in there. I had a rough couple of weeks, but with MUCH thanks to the pragmatism of my dear FRiend XS, I made it through. She gave me a much needed talking to when I started feeling sorry for myself after an outbreak of lice in school landed in my daughter's head and she was home from school for the better part of 2 weeks.
I also got a much needed wake up call when through tear blurred eyes I took the scissors to her "able to sit on" length hair....she took one look at the now above shoulder length of her hair and screamed "Mommy I LOVE IT, please let me keep it like this."
The other day while sitting at the table doing her homework she told me again how much she likes her new hair, and asked me "have you gotten over it?" I realized right then her long hair was me, not her. Much like the stereotype of the father who pushes his son to be the athlete he wasn't, I was doing it to my daughter. My mother kept my hair very short when I was young and all I wanted was long hair. I learned a major lesson here - I was totally deaf to her repeated requests to cut her hair, all I heard were her comments about wanting Rapunzel hair.
so now that I have given you a much longer answer than you could have possibly expected (or want), how are you?