SO, having kids is in my opinion incredibly rewarding and full of adventure. You love them with ridiculous amounts of love and cherish things that most people would look at as insignificant. like the fact that today Makenzie was simply confused as to why they were giving away mattresses on TV just because it was Presidents day. She in fact thought this was all wrong as we always have to pay for everything. It took some time for us to convince her that in fact it was just a commercial designed to get people to come and shop at there store. reading this story you might not see the humor in it as we did but you have to understand that she is seven and that the understanding of money and items was pretty advanced for her. It was something we thought was special. It's just one of those things you have to either know her or have kids to understand the irony of what kids do. I love my kids with out question and would do almost anything for them. They make me laugh almost every day and we have lots of fun together.
Then there are the days.... those days when you want to scream and lock your self in your room and wish the day would just end. Days like today when the kids have been picking at each other just enough to make each other whine and cry and annoy me.... I dealt with most of it just fine. letting them battle it out while going about my chores and ignoring most of it.
Finally it was time for them to head off to bed so that tomorrow they can go back to school. I thought at this moment they were on there way to bed and I could relax with my favorite show.
THEN IT HAPPENED; The calm and quiet of our house was broken by my GASP and screaming for Alexandra... she walked into my bathroom where I was standing in the middle of what used to be the hair on her head!! Yes my beautiful baby with hair past her waist who's NEVER had her hair cut... had taken a chunk out of her bangs and and about 5 inches in length of the side of her hair by her ear!!!! WHHHHHHHYYYYYY I asked almost in tears.. the answer? it was in her ear! ARE YOU KIDDING?????? WWWWHHHHYYYY do they do crap like this? she could have cut her ear off! or poked her eye out!
You may not see this as a big deal... its only hair? this is hair that I have babied since she was born, the hair I spend an hour combing every night and then in the morning! Hair that we've been growing out for 5 years. its so beautiful. and its just missing this chunk. If I were to cut it to blend we would have to cut about 7 inches off the back to even it all out. She was crying at the thought of this.Maybe you can understand this... maybe you have to have Little girls to understand this! it took some handy scissor work to try to fix her bangs some of which were cut to almost the scalp. after 20 min of looking at her hair and listening to her cry over it we decided to just let it go... it's going to look funny for a while and we are just going to have to let it grow out and then trim it up to match later on...

I took a deep breath told her she couldn't EVER touch my scissors again and sent her to bed!