We knew this day would come. My mother calls it "retribution". I suppose my time has come to pass and really came quite later than we had all anticipated.
TODAY, RHYLAN GRACE JONES, USED SCISSORS IN A VERY BAD WAY.
It could be said that my first mistake was taking a nap after church. Note that I say "first". That indicates many mistakes were, in fact, made. The order of events, as well as I can ascertain, are as follows. See if you can find where the mistakes are - it will be like a fun little game in the perils of parenting...
1. Mom takes a nap.
2. Dad working in office.
3. Kids watching tv.
4. Skylar, who has scissors privileges, did not return scissors to their place.
5. Rhylan, who WAS growing out her hair, had a bit of bang in her eye and notices the afore mentioned scissors laying about and gets a "hair-brained" idea (excuse the pun).
6. Rhylan makes a bad choice.
7. Skylar watches Rhylan follow through on the bad choice and makes her own bad choice in not notifying the authorities.
8. Mom awakes from nap to find piles of hair lying about the den.
9. Mom investigates and finds the perpetrator hiding beneath the desk in guilt and fear.
10. Mom keeps her cool, does not raise her voice, does not spank a tiny bottom for the offense, but commences in an effort to "shape up" the ghastly home hair cut Rhylan has given herself.
So, Rhylan no longer has anything resembling "ballet hair", which was our goal for the summer since she needs enough hair to style into a ballet bun for performances. Her punishment will be to have "boy hair" instead for the time being since she gapped it so badly in so many places that even a professional would have been pressed to do anything with it that might resemble a actual style. Sadly, we are back to square one minus two because she completely scalped a section in the widow's peak area because it was "getting in my eyes", having fallen out of the barrette earlier in the day.
Why is this retribution?, you may wonder... That is simple enough. Traci and I, at the tender ages of 4 and 3, respectively, traveled a similar path with a pair of scissors one afternoon while alone in our room. Traci's hair cut was quite similar to our fair Rhylan's today in that she, too, had pig tails in her hair at the time and she did a very sloppy chop job while leaving the pig tails in place. Traci cut her hair IN FRONT of the pony tail holder, so my mom didn't even realize it was cut for a while and was actually distracted by the fist-full of my golden ringlets that Traci held in her hand, she having cut my hair, as well. My mom reacted in roughly the same manner as I did by taking us for "boy cuts" and a professional photo shoot to commemorate the event. She and my dad later pulled a lot of weeds over the whole ordeal.
I am contemplating pinning a note to her shirt tomorrow for school indicating what happens when a 4 year old trys to give herself a trim. Jury is still out on that...
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