Betsy's Blog

Today I went to get my hair cut. I have a long face, and though I was trying to grow my hair long, I knew it looked terrrible. Naturally curly hair, trying to be straight while long means I have a puffy mess that ends up in a pony tail. Every day, the past 2 months. I am not kidding.

So while I was sitting there waiting with a girlfriend who came with me to entertain Aidan, I saw a cute short cut. My hair gal, who ALWAYS wants to cut my hair short, since she knows how much better I look, was thrilled. She cut a longer version of the cut shown in the magazine. She begged me to make it curly. I hate this. I just cannot see my hair curly and looking nice, since I wore it that way all through the 90's and it just looks so outdated to me.

So. Short hair. Curls. Curls that are making what I wanted to flip out, flip under. My cute do is starting to look like a curly bowl cut. Ugh. I asked my friend if the cut made me look like a soccer mom-she told me no and how cute it looked. Aidan told me I looked like Mr. Noodle from Elmo's world. (he has never seen me with curls) So here I am fretting over this cut, which will probably be fine when I don't wear it curly, worrying if I look like a soccer mom or a housewife with a "quick out the door, cause I am a mom" haircut. How silly that is. What the hell am I anyway? I AM a mom, who would BE a soccer mom if Aidan was old enough, who DOES need a quicker do, and who probably looked more like a mom with a perpetual ponytail than anything this stylish. I want to NOT look like something I want to be? Silly. As if a soccer mom would show up looking like a fashion model anyway.

Well, I may have a short, motherly do, but I got carded immediately after my haircut at Target for buying wine. And I will be 41 in September! Wahoo! A damn young looking mom I am!!