New Hair!

So next week the Wigglet’s school (daycare – calling it school makes me feel better – though for the record it is a Montessori school) is closed next week. We neglected to plan our vacation around the school’s vacation, as would be sensible, so we had to find a babysitter for her next week. Ear infections and such have whittled our shared PTO days down to the red line.

The bright spot in this situation is that today, when both Tom and I had the day off, Amelia’s school was open! So we dropped her off and had a baby-free day from 7 to 5!

I needed some Andrea time, so I took the morning to myself – had a nice breakfast at Magnolia Cafe, did some writing on the laptop, and then got my hair cut. A lot of my hair cut. Can you be a soccer mom if your kid doesn’t play soccer?

I’m kidding – I really like the cut and hope that it will be easier to style, adding precious moments to my morning, and that I will be able to get my ass in to the salon more often than once a quarter to keep it trimmed. The stylist at Wet was quite hesitant to cut it this short – evidently she had had a bad experience or two with people who were lying when they said “I want a pixie cut” – but I can go shorter if I want to… if I can get my ass back in the salon before Labor Day!

Amelia recognized me even with short hair.

Tom and I saw a matinee at the Alamo this afternoon – Away We Go, which we really enjoyed. Whatshername who was in Idiocracy was MUCH better in this, and the guy from the American version of The Office reminded me of Jason Hill a bit. In a good way.

Tomorrow, it’s Fourth of July festivities at the DeBusks! Do we stay long enough to watch the fireworks? It’s WAY past Amelia’s bed time, and then we’ll have the drive home and all that. Is it dumb to slavishly follow bedtimes? Should we just go with the flow and resign ourselves to her sleeping little and poorly as a result?