Vows

Pictures don't always tell the whole story....
Tessa had been asking me why I had let her hair get so long....
I kept promising to cut it soon...
When it was time to cut it she just cried & cried.
When I was young there were always girls who would say, "I used to have long hair, but my mom made me cut it!" Then the bunch of listeners would add sympathy by agreeing that the mother had been an ogre. I vowed to never be such a mom.
So, when Tessa began to cry, I hesitated to make the first snip...and yet, she'd begged me to cut it for weeks...and she even accused me of not keeping it short like she likes it, so I cut.



Unfortunately, she still seemed upset when I finished. Being a mom is tough.