Who thinks the Harlem Shake is just dumb? Who thinks it’s fun? Who doesn’t care? If you don’t know what the heck I’m talking about, then God bless you and carry on with your life.
Yeah, enough about that, let’s talk about me and my hair.
I got sick of my hair. I just felt like I had sported the long hair for long enough.
I started off slow and just hacked away at my bangs. I had bangs for at least a week before Clay noticed.
I cut my bangs, they are crooked. I took this with my phone while I sat waiting for my son to finish a musical rehearsal in Kansas City. I was bored, I had to wait 2 hours that day. I need to learn how to knit because I finished all the little projects I had brought with me and then it was just me and the phone.
When the bangs were no longer doing it for me I decided I needed to do something more drastic. So, one dark and stormy night, I pulled my hair back into a pony tail and asked my daughter to chop it off in a straight line. Except, somewhere in her primary education, my daughter was never taught how to cut a straight line and I had crooked chopped hair.
I may have panicked a little and asked everyone to leave the bathroom (yes, there were at least four of us in the bathroom at the time). I shut the door to asses the damage. I spent the next hour hacking a path through my hair and then realized I couldn’t do this alone.
I called my friend, Beth, to come over the next day and straighten the back for me. It wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t great. Beth reminded me several times not to cut my hair without calling her FIRST. Beth is a very smart woman.
I sported my home-made chop for a few months. I went to Clay’s office Christmas party in St. Louis where I danced on a stress fracture all night in high-heeled boots. Then for more fun I got up the next morning and walked all over Forest Park. By the time I got in the car to head home my ankle was drooping over the side of my shoe and I’d stretched the top of my sock out so much that it looks more like a cloth diaper than a sock. So, that was fun.
I wasn’t allowed to exercise anymore, so I had a lot of time to think about my bad hair cut.
Finally, I decided to go get my hair done by someone who can see the back of my head and cut a straight line at the same time. Then I realized…..crap this short hair is a lot of maintenance. I’ll probably be sporting that long hair again this summer.
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You just didn’t go short enough! You remind me of a younger Cybil Shepard in your mid-length pic from the holidays. I hope you don’t think that’s a bad thing – I think she was pretty cute.
I saw the Harlem shake done by a couple of my friend’s kids and I was like, “Oh, that’s cute. I don’t really get it, but the dancing kids are cute.” Then my son showed me a video of someone who took a perfectly good looking dryer, threw a boulder into it and watched it fly apart to the Harlem shake music and I was like, “That’s not funny. I don’t get that.” I chalk it up to getting old. I know things are going to come along that make no sense to me and the best thing I can do is just shrug my shoulders and admit that I don’t get it.
As for the hair, I like picture #2, however, I realize it may have taken more work than you’d like to get it that straight. Unless your hair is naturally straight. Then it was easy. Cute and easy. That’s my vote.
Super cute!
Harlem Shake, eh? Funny stuff. I’d love to see that family video!
Yer hair’s purdy no matter what, April. You’d likely be beautiful without hair altogether. (I wonder how long it’d take Clay to notice that!)
Keep it short! You look about 20 years younger! No lie! Cute!
It’s cute! You’re much braver than me. I’d never take scissors to my own hair. Well, I never had to because my mom was a beautician.
I love that picture of you and Clay.
Oh, and the Harlem Shake? I watched it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. What? I don’t get it, but I’m old.
April, that is so cute!! I love it!
Very cute short – and I like the bangs too! My DH was just showing me a Harlem Shake on Facebook – he thinks it hilarious and I jus kinda went “eh”.
LOVE the short cut! Super cute!
I do the same thing. Grow it out, chop it off, lather, rinse, repeat.
Your short hair is super cute.
I’m growing my hair until I turn 40. It’s a last ditch attempt to reclaim my youth.
Then I will cave in and cut it short.
Yours looks great!
#2 with layers/bangs and the doll with Clay are my favorites.
I absolutely hate paying more than $20 for a haircut which means I’ve gotten a LOT of bad haircuts. I also ask every woman I know to please go ahead and cut my hair for me. Katie cut it when she was here to get me through until I go suck it up and pay $45 to get a good cut so I can be a semi-stylish MoG next month. I won’t look nearly as good as you do though.
…b..b..but it’s so cuuuuuuute!
Makes you look so young – very cute short hair.
You’re a pretty woman, April! Some of these posters are right— you just didn’t go short enough. The mid-length is the toughest to maintain, especially if you have fine, straight hair like yours. Suggestion: go truly short, give away your curling iron (never works with fine, straight hair), and use a good mousse or styling gel product on your hair when it’s wet, get good at a round brush to give it a little body and height and just blow it dry. It will take you 5 minutes total. Good luck!
Wow…loved your site. Found it through Pioneer Woman. Liked it much better. More than half the time someone else is doing her site. Yours more real…less fluff;). Then all of a sudden, nothing.
Thought it vanished. I do realize you have four children. No staff;)
(I think). Also, can you show that cute dog? Thanks.
Pony tails are the bomb diggity come summer time. Although, I must say, your short hair is super cute and curly. So glad to see you post again. I always look forward to it.
We wanna see the Coal Creek version of the Harlem shake!
And you are just so beautiful ! I’m dreaming about blond curly hair !! While I’m black and straight hairs !! Aaaaah, women and their hairs … Such a story !
Welcome back. I miss your posts. Love your hair!
Yay she’s back with great hair!!!! I also vote for the CCF Harlem Shake!
I am loving the hair. I always get the urge to do something completely different with my hair in the spring.
Also I awarded you another blog award. You crack me up, woman.
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I think your hair looks great any which way. And did ya notice….? You look like a completely different person in each of those pictures! I guess it just goes with that playful personality.
April? :::::tap tap::: You in there? I know you’re busy. And it’s been a long winter and all. But…well….do you think you could squeeze out a dancing video? A new one? We’re a bit desperate for entertainment, and, well, there’s almost nothing better than you or Clay dancing. Preferably to totally obnoxious pop music. We live for it. We do.
I am right there with ya, sister, on the hair. I once cut mine so short it was like a boys. I LOVED it! Everyone else hated it but didn’t say so. They just looked at me with sad eyes all the time. THEN it needed to be cut every 3 weeks and I could not see spending money on that……so now I think I will be the old lady with the long braid. lol
Seriously, though, it feels so freeing to get over the whole “hair” thing. If they are looking for a woman with perfect hair, I just tell them to move on, because I am not their girl. Never gonna be, either.
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