Locks of Love
Sarah loves to gives things to children. She spends her babysitting money to buy gifts for the kids she babysits. Her favorite way to start the Christmas season is by shopping for little items to put into shoeboxes for Samaritan's purse, a Christian nonprofit organization that serves underprivileged kids worldwide.
So it didn't surprise me when she announced that she wanted to donate her long tresses to Locks of Love. This charity, as you may know, gives wigs to children with cancer. Great Clips cuts hair free when you donate at least a 10-inch ponytail.
A few years ago she began to grow it. Several months ago she measured it at 7 inches. Undaunted, but bothered by headaches from the sheer weight of the thick mane, she was eager for it to be cut. I had mixed feelings. I like to play with her long hair and put it up in rolls. But she isn't a girly girl and rarely did any style but a plain ponytail anyway.
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I wanted to take her to Christine at Rudolph's, whom I knew would give her a good style, but it would cost. Sarah--ever the most frugal femme of all-- refused, and instead had faith for a good, free haircut at Great Clips.
I was hoping the stylist wouldn't just whack it off and send her away. Thankfully, she didn't.
Rather she layered it and scrunched it and fiddled and brushed and sprayed until it was a cute bob that looks like it's in motion.
Sarah likes it. Her brothers and dad like it. I like it. And I'm really proud of her for being so patient to let it grow and grow for the sake of someone who has none at all. Someone she'll probably never meet on this earth.
posted by Zoanna at
10:51 AM
5 Comments:
I've thought about doing that with my hair, but gave into vanity instead and got it chopped and colored instead!
Way to be an example to the rest of us, Sarah! I can only imagine the treasures you are storing up in Heaven!
It is a wonderful thing to do.
Unhappily, it will never be something I can do.
Wonderful, Sarah!
Bea-I have a DS 18, DD 17 this weekend, DS 14, and DS 4. And yours?
Kudos to Sarah!!!
Zoanna, you asked about the flannel design board and how long fabric pieces would stay "stuck" up there. I found that it depended a lot on the heat and humidity. I put up my piece of flannel - glamorously attached to the back of my guest room door with masking tape - sometime in January. I put up a dozen blocks for a baby blanket and then switched to another project. The baby blocks stayed put for two months until I turned my attention back to them!
On the other hand, when I was using the flannel board again in July - with heat and humidity pervading our non-air-conditioned house - most of the blocks would wilt wearily to the floor overnight!
If your home is more climate-controlled than ours, you could probably have confidence in the flannel as a fairly reliable design board. Hope that helps!!
Thanks for your comments and I have loved visiting your blog as well! I'll be back!
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