Aug 23: Aaaaaand, I did it!

I was totally getting cold feet before my hair appointment, but I showed my stylist the picture I wanted and she loved it. And said I could rock it. And I hope I do because DANG it's short!

Before and After.

How about a few more, to really let it sink in?

Yep. Short.

But I do like it! It's getting a little less shocking as time goes on. I'm not going to lie, when she was drying it I had that panicky feeling like 'OMG WHAT HAVE I DONE?' Have you ever had that sinking feeling when sitting in a stylists chair? She easily chopped off 5 inches or so and I didn't have hair that was very long before. So it's a huge change for me but it's getting less shocking as time goes on;)

It feels SO much healthier. Like I said before, my hair just wants to be curly/wavy and hates to be straight. Look at how disgusting it was as it would air dry.

After the blow dryer.

After the flat iron.

Not horrible, but not good. And these maddening little broken off bang things? No.

Much, much better now.

Had to show this one in full because of the cheeks in the background. 

RECORD number of selfies in one day, man.

Some of you are probably wondering how Nate took the chop job on his lovely wife. Well, before I did it I warned him that was going short.....VERY short. And he did not like this news. At all. But we had a conversation about it and I explained that I needed this change. I hated my hair. I wanted a fresh start and after all, it's only hair. I said I hoped that he wasn't just attracted to me because of my long, luscious locks (slicked back in a pony every day) and that he'd love me even if I was bald. He came around then and braced himself for a short do.

The kids and Nate waited for me at Barnes and Noble while I got the cut and I was so stinking nervous to walk in there with my short hair. Nate smiled, Truman shook his head 'no' and walked away, and CC kept patting her own head and stared at me for a long time. Then she grabbed my hair, my eyes, and mouth....and was over it, just like that. Truman took a bit longer to warm up to me, but eventually did say, 'I like your haircut, mommy. It's soft.' And Nate says he likes it, too. A little shocking at first but we are all coming around.

Can't wait to style it for myself and see what kinds of fun ways I can fix this do. If my home-styling is anything like my stylist's version, this should take all of 5 minutes max to arrange accordingly. 

So I have really short hair, now, guys. I think I like it!