The Young and the Restless

The Bangs


I had forgotten what it was like to be a kid and get so excited about the simple things in life. To be so excited about something that you lose sleep over it. To be so excited about something that you tell everyone you know because that's all you can think about. Kylie has now reminded me what that was like. You would think she would be this excited about something like going to Disneyland or having a birthday, but no the source of all the excitement was simple: she was getting bangs. She decided one night before going to bed that she wanted bangs, I told her that I would cut them for her the next day after school. That night she came out of her room like three times because she was so excited that she couldn't sleep. When I went to bed that night there was a note waiting for me on my nightstand that said: "Mom don't forget to cut Kylie's baings". She told all her friends, teachers and principal at school that she would be getting bangs. It was so cute how excited she got over something so simple. I was worried that it would be a little anti-climatic once I actually cut them, but she loved them. The only problem with bangs is that I actually have to style it otherwise they are always in her eyes. As much as I wish I was one of "those moms" (ahem-Marcee) that wakes up at 6AM to bathe my kids, curl their hair, cook them breakfast, practice the piano (if we had a piano and they actually knew how to play it), pack them healthy lunches, etc., the reality is I'm not. A typical morning is us rolling out of bed 20 minutes before it's time to leave, I wet Kylie's hair down with a spray bottle then throw it back in a pony tail while she's eating cold cereal, then I grab her lunch out of the fridge with the soggy sandwich from making it the night before because I'm too lazy to wake up five minutes earlier to make it. But the morning of the big bang debut we woke up extra early to blow dry her hair and curl it. It looked so cute, maybe just maybe I'll do it more often.