Locks of Love

For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to give my hair away to locks of love. If you have a minute, check out their site, it will bless your socks off. About this time last year, we learned that we were expecting Story. I decided this would be the perfect time to grow my hair out to give away, what with all the vitamins and pregnancy hormones! Pregnant hair is the best! So, I embarked on this new journey. I had my hair trimmed 3 times throughout the year in order to get rid of split ends and to encourage growth. A precious lady in our church, Miss Lou, has been cutting my hair for the last few years and she has graciously journeyed with me. I chickened out several times, actually! She was so patient with me every time.

Well, Monday was the big day. I think David was more excited than me. He was precious, in fact! He had this big ole silly grin on his face, and he was snapping pictures left and right. It was the sweetest thing. So, as you can see here is the before picture. My hair was really long when we got married, but I have never had it quite this long. I have also worn my hair short before (during our seminary days), but I have never been brave enough to cut it all at once.

David working the camera. It was the strangest feeling when she snipped off the whole pony tail, like a huge weight lifted. Have you ever gone through a tough season and had your hair cut and just felt like some dead weight was gone? What a freeing feeling!

Miss Lou cut just over 12 inches, maybe closer to 13. Measuring from the rubber band of my pony tail in the top picture to the bottom of my hair was 15 inches. I wanted to still be able to wear a pony tail when necessary, but I wanted to give as much as possible, knowing that anything over 10 inches would be all the better.

That's a pretty good looking pony tail don't you think? It was so strange to see all of my hair lying on the table. The children were hysterical. They kept asking me where my pony tail was. I thought they were referring to my hair, but Summer was really upset that I was losing an actual pony tail holder! Ha! Don't worry, Summer, I promise we have plenty of pony tail holders. David really loves it. He prefers my hair shorter, I think. In fact, I mentioned before that my hair was quite long when we got married, and I remember shortly after the honeymoon him asking me when I was going to cut my hair, hmmm. That should have been my first clue!

Well, here's the finished product in all its glory. I'm really thankful to have accomplished this endeavor, and I hope that some precious little person will be pleased with their new hair.