Friday, December 10, 2010

Nightmare becomes Reality

I have been reassured that this happens at least once in every family, and I'm not totally convinced. After about three hours of balling my eyes out, I came to the realization that maybe Heavenly Father is trying to teach me something. Everyone who really knows me well knows about my obsession with hair and maybe this experience is trying to teach me that there is more to life than hair. It was a blessing that my visiting teachers were there otherwise I probably would have killed the boy otherwise known as my son. They must have been playing barber shop and Dominic reassured Riah that he was making her look like a princess. If she only knew. She came down the stair looking like this....






After balling my eyes out with my visiting teachers right there, they laughed and told me to take photos and said that I would laugh about this one day. I sure hope so cause I'm pretty far from laughter even now as I write this at 1 in the morning. I went up stairs to find this horror....

EVERY ounce of her hair and femininity was lying there on my bathroom floor. One of my visiting teachers was very sweet and took her to the beauty shop to see if any of her hair could be salvageable or if a miracle could occur. She came home looking like this with lots of cute bows and headbands.

Look at her, happy as a lark with sucker in hand....if she only knew what she really looked like. I'm debating whether or not to call her a boy or a cancer survivor, what do you think? Hopefully she will be as mad as me when she looks back on pictures to see how her loving brother lied to her when he said she looked like a beautiful princess!!!! Forgive me I am trying to recover.... on a lighter note.... here is our sweet little stuffed turkey for Thanksgiving. These are for you Megg.


I'm almost in tears again as I see Riah with her pretty hair just days earlier...

9 comments:

shilo said...

Yeah, it happens at least once in every family. Lots more in my family of 4 girls. Too bad you couldn't make Riah a wig out of Dom's curly locks...

alanna said...

I'm so sorry Tori. That is awful, especially for you. I know how you were about Dom's hair. Oh man. But it will grow back. Embrace the headbands until then. :)

Dr. Jensen said...

I cut off my sister's pony tail when I was a kid because she sat in my spot. :-)

Funny thing is, that sister is now a hair stylist with her own salon and we laugh about it all the time.

Unknown said...

You poor thing! If I could, I would give Riah some of Reese's hair! Hopefully it grows back quick!

Heather said...

I'm sorry :( It actually kind of reminds me of the whole pixie cut that's in style now...maybe if you think of it that way. She's just got a very chic haircut. Courtesy of Dom. I used to cut my own bangs... yeah.

Meggan said...

He is such cutie! I love your pics Tori! And yes, Kate has cut her hair. Not to the extent of Dom's hair styling, but it does happen. I've even caught her trying to come at Luke with scissors. It will grow. Riah has amazing eyes, and such a sweet spirit about her. Love ya'll! What a cute little chunk. Love the bib too!

Stacy said...

Ashley has cut Caylyn's hair..AShley has cut her own hair...Ashley has cut the dog's hair..we hide scissors now. I'm so sorry!!!

shandra/jason said...

oh tori! i am soooo sorry that happened!!! (jason and i however had a most fantastic laugh over it, while i do think one day...many years from now, you will have a laugh too!) while laughing though, i did feel soooo bad for you. it will be ok. she has supper cute hair bands now. and if you think she looks that bad with that short of haiar, when shes older and is begging to cut all her hair off, you can now show her pictures of what she will look like with it gone. (i think shes still cute!) can't wait to see you guys...and i'll warn keegan about domi's hair cutting abilaties. ;)

Shari said...

Oh poor kid!! really cute kids :-D