That is, until Thursday.
On Thursday night I went to get my hair trimmed. It was long overdue. The cute girl who cuts my hair told me that this time she really needed to do more than the regular trim because the ends were so bad. She would have to take off three inches. I closed my eyes and said okay.
Of all the things that happened last week, this was not a major thing that should have really affected me at all. But I left the salon, picked up a hot fudge sundae from McDonald's, and went home where I started to cry. Hard. And then I started to laugh while I was crying because who does that?!? For real! And I laughed/cried hysterically for a while until I got it all out.
It is not like my hair is short now. It is shorter, but still past my shoulders. And yet THAT is what set me off. Geesh. I am such a nerd. And such a girl.
On the bright side, some happy school things happened. I have a very black thumb when it comes to growing anything. Every spring when it is time to plant seeds in my classroom I shudder with fear, because what if they don't grow? And last year, that was a very valid fear! This year we planted Sunflower seeds. And they grew. Fast. Take a look:
This is what they looked like TWO WEEKS after we planted them. Crazy! Usually I send them home with my students to use as a Mother's Day gift. This year, they went home WAY early because they quickly outgrew their styrofoam cups! I was pretty impressed!
Yesterday we had just finished taking a test when one of my cute students yelled out "I lost a tooth!" You could tell that she had been holding it in through the whole test (I am very strict about no talking during tests, and she had been able to keep quiet until we were done :)
I smiled (and kind of gagged, I don't like teeth when they are covered in blood and outside of the mouth) while I helped her clean up and get a little treasure box for her tooth. I asked if it was her first tooth to fall out and she said "No, it's my Thhhh. . . . Thhhhhh . . . THITH!!!!"
She had lost her front tooth and couldn't say her F sound anymore. HAHAHAHA!!! It was so darling and funny, it made me laugh the rest of the day!
5 comments:
I love your blog! You are just so cute! I love how you described your laugh/cry. I heart you!
:) I love the tooth story.
And I must say I totally understand the laugh/cry thing. My favorite story dealing with that was when I was watching the movie Charlie with my friend Charlyn. It was the part of the movie where the mom was dying. Charlyn had just lost a cousin who was in a very similar situation. She was crying like crazy and then at the very WORST possible point in the movie she started laughing hysterically. But like I said, I understand the feeling. You know you have to get those emotions out somehow and sometimes it is just easiest to laugh them out. I'm glad you made it through the week. Love you!
Sometimes you just need a really good cry to release all those emotions, it usually helps me! Glad you had some good moments too!
Of everything that you'd been through, I think you deserved a good cry. I just think it's funny that it was your hair cut (which looks great, btw) of all things that set it off. :) Hope you're feeling a bit better now!
PS Your student who couldn't say the letter F sound anymore makes me laugh too. :)
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