The Long and Short of it

My sister requested that I post a better picture of my new haircut. I was waiting until we got our family pictures back, but who knows when that will be so...

I just got home from work so it definitely doesn't look as good as it did before I dealt with 60 kids all day long, but you get the idea. It's longer in the front and stacked shorter in the back. Pretty much it's just barely long enough for me pull back into a ponytail. Who cares? You may wonder. I have had long hair forever (even though you wouldn't know it since I usually wore it up almost everyday) and my sister knows that chopping my hair off is a huge deal for me. And since we no longer live 20 minutes apart (more like 3000 miles) and I cannot show it off in person... I must blog about it. That's what blogs are for, right? For a good before and after shot, refer to the picture of Brooke and I on my sidebar. I am loving the shorter hair.

Brooke got a new hairdo as well. I went to pick her up from the sitters the other day and her teenage daughter decided to see if Brooke's hair was long enough for a little pony tale, turns out it was!

Can you spot her little ponytail?And if you use a magnifying glass, you can spot Brooke's little tooth poking through. This is the only picture I've been able to get of it.

Here's to new hairdos!

Okay, enough of the hair. If for some reason the hair post didn't scare any male readers away, this sure will (TMI alert!!) So I was at Wal-Mart today after work buying some "womanly supplies" and that was the only thing on my list to get. But I had to get a full size shopping cart because Brooke was with me. So I'm heading over to the aisle and I am thinking "Oh please don't let any of my students see me!" The bright blue packaging is going to make for an awkward moment. I mean, teachers are supposed to be robots and live at the school, not be shopping at Wal-Mart and especially not for anything that has to do with bodily functions. So I head over to that section and there is a woman there with her husband and the woman is explaining to her husband all about the different kind of flows women get and why there are different types of tampons. The man says, "I still think a popsicle stick some toilet paper will work just fine." I'm sure he was joking but I couldn't help thinking to myself "You might be a redneck if..." Anyway, so the weirdo couple finally leaves and all of a sudden I hear: "Hi Mrs. M!" I turn around and low and behold 2 of my students are right there. Luckily both of them girls, but trust me there was no small talk or fawning over Brooke. I said my hello and got the heck out of there, making a beeline for the register and passing a fellow male teacher on my to the cashier!