Locks of Love

My oldest daughter is headed off to kindergarten in about a week. I am only about half as prepared as I wanted to be before she went to school. I mean I don't think I will ever be emotionally prepared, but I wanted to have a few more ducks in a row.

I have most of her clothes ready, but I still want to take her out and find her a special first day outfit and some shoes. She said she wants a pair of high tops. ( stop it you are growing up too fast)

She has also been trying to get me to have her hair cut. We have never so much as trimmed her hair since she was a baby, so it is all the way down her back. We said OK, maybe shoulder length and she says, "but I want it like Jordan's". Well Jordan is an adorable little pixie, but her hair is a super short bob. It looks great on Jordan and I am sure my girl would look just as cute, but when you are a mom trying to deal with the idea of a first hair cut going from super long, to super short is just too much.

I was talking to my hubby about it one night and he came up with a good idea. We always talk to our kids about volunteerism and donating. They often help us round up clothes or toys for the kids that do not have much. Well, hubby thought of Locks of Love. It is a program that takes donated hair and has a company make wigs for children that have lost their hair do to health problems I mentioned this to a girlfriend of mine yesterday and I had forgotten she had done this with her little girl years ago. So she called a friend of hers that is a hair stylist and the stylist said the hair only had to be 6 inches long.

I got on the Locks of Love website to double check the details and they say 10 inches. I think I am going to email them and see, because it also says something about shorter hair being sold do defray costs of the program. I would be OK with that, because in the end it still helps a child in need. If we are close in length then we might let her get the short do she has been wanting. If we are far off, then I think we will even out the bottom and have her grown it for a while longer before we donate.

She is excited about the idea and I think it is much better than throwing the hair away for sure. If you want to learn more about the program, you can check out the site I have linked to it in this post.