Keeping Perspective in a Sad Moment

I have always been completely in love with Calyssa's hair!!  She had just the perfect little red ringlets all the way across the back of her hair.  And you know how with babies, you never know if once their hair gets cut, those curls will be gone forever or not... Well I had this fear/nightmare that something was going to happen to her perfect little curls...

Well, one day, I was sitting at the computer, downloading our hike/goat pictures that Dave had sent us and up walked Sariah with a shocked look on her face.  Then she held up her hands and in her hands was red hair!!  I was speechless and she just said, "Calyssa... Aurora cut Calyssa's hair, Mommy!"  I was completely in shock!!  I then ran upstairs to find more red hair all over my bedroom.  I looked at Calyssa and broke into tears!!!  Here is what I saw...

It was so sad!  I was just talking to Riana and Sariah that morning about how we should try straightening her hair sometime to see how long it was getting.  I could not stop crying and Aurora came and hugged my legs and said, "I'm so sorry, Mommy!  I'm so sorry!"  Of course, I reassured her how much I loved her and that I forgave her but I just needed time.  (I called Grant while he was golfing, which he only does about once every year or two, and he thought we had gotten into a car accident or something.)

I always put the scissors up and hid them just to make sure something like this wouldn't happen (it had happened with some of the other girls but never this dramatic and even once Aurora cut her own hair... she is quite into hair and wants to be a hair dresser/cutter when she grows up.)  Aurora used little baby safety scissors to cut Callie's hair.

But right when I thought about how horrible and sad this all was, and that her perfect red curls were possibly gone for good, Heavenly Father brought to my mind a little 12 year old girl from our ward/church that I had just read about that morning.  She has been struggling with some health problems and I had just read on Facebook a few hours earlier about her diagnosis and had cried for her family.  That sure reminded me that this wasn't that horrible.  Then I thought of a few of our friends who were snuggling with there children that morning and then they lost them in terrible accidents.  It broke my heart all over again to think about these families.  This sure put my problems into perspective and I was thankful to my Heavenly Father for reminding me that it was just hair and it would grow back.  I grabbed my sweet baby and just held her.

Just then, I realized that I had to leave right then for the girls' dance recital. I realized I wasn't completely over it as every time I saw a little girls with curls, it made me cry. One of my girls said that it was hard to see our little niece, who is Calyssa's age, because she also has curls.  But I reminded myself that it is still okay to be sad and to cry, once in a while.

When the recital was over, we were able to get ahold of our friend, Bev, and she was sweet enough to cut/fix Callie's hair and then refused to take payment for her sweet service!!  She evened it out and did a cute little comb over across her bangs.  She sprayed them a little and put a clip in.  And Callie looked so cute again!!  I was already adjusting to her new little pixie cut!  She looked so darling!  (The next day, Aurora sat Callie in a chair and wrapped her in a sheet and pretended to cut her hair with her fingers, just like Miss Bev, even though we have had many, many talks with her about how Miss Bev went to lots of school and all that... silly girl!)

Afterwards, we went to Coldstone to celebrate the dance recital and the girls all loved it. 

The next day, Callie looked so adorable and I felt much, much better!!  And now that I have adjusted, I just love my little pixie!  The haircut totally matches her spunky little personality!!  She is as cute as ever!!  :)