Tied like that, the curtains remind me of the even ponytails I never quite had, because I was the only girl at school whose mother never did her hair.
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Tied like that, the curtains remind me of the even ponytails I never quite had, because I was the only girl at school whose mother never did her hair.
Oh me too! In fact, instead of a pony tail I often had a bird’s nest of matted hair.
Still rarely brush it. Really should cut it short.
I’m shaping up to be the mother who never does her girls’ hair, but mostly because they are getting very insistent about doing it themselves. It’s taking a lot of restraint on my part to let them go off to school looking like something the cat dragged in. I can feel the Burnside mums looking at me in that special way.
hahah, I too had the birdsnest. In fact, I still do.
(One time the birdnest became SO big My hair needed shearing from waist-length to ear-length.
There are several reasons for not doing a child’s hair.
For example:
You’re crap at it.
The child won’t keep it’s damn head still.
Both of those apply to me.
i never had an even pony tail either. the wrong kind of hair. the kind of hair which, incidentally, behaves itself much better when you don’t brush it at all, a fact i did not discover til i was 19.
last time it got a little bit long i had it in a pony tail but m said a sheep’s tail would be a more accurate description…