Mommy Hair

OK, I will readily admit it. . . I made fun of women who cut their hair short immediately after having a baby. I called it the mommy hair cut, and I know a LOT of women who do it. So many of them said "it's just so much easier to maintain!" Well, I know from experience that MY hair isn't easier to maintain when it's short. It's harder. It's a daily thing, much more complicated than throwing it up into a ponytail after brushing (and sometimes without brushing) it. What they don't tell you (except in that great Suave commercial that I am SO identifying with these days) is that you honestly won't make time to do your hair. It's not that I CAN'T make time. I can. I just don't. Other things feel like bigger priorities. So, up in a ponytail goes the hair until I can manage the 20 minutes I need to really blow dry it.

All of that means never feeling put together. I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've felt like I really got ready for the day since Nolan was born. (and yes, that was 7 months go) Frumpy and thrown together is much more common for me. I knew I needed shorter hair, if just for the smaller number of minutes required to blow dry it. But the plan was to keep it long enough for a ponytail just in case. . .

As you can see, that didn't happen. 1st, I wanted to donate it, and once 8 inches was cut off, it was JUST long enough for the ponytail. But THEN I didn't quite communicate to the stylist (who is also family. . . sort of) what I wanted it to look like in the end. . . So I came out looking like there was a giant mushroom on my head. Yesterday she fixed it, thanks to a picture I showed her, and now it's short. . . Not quite as short as last time I chopped it, but very very close.

So here you go. . . My mommy hair:


Feel free to mock me. I would, if I were you. And forgive the crappy photo. I couldn't stop giggling while I was trying to use photo booth at my desk.