Week Three

There's a saying in church "Ask and ye shall receive," although this didn't work when I was a child, mainly because I was asking for frivolous things such as: long flowing hair, thick hair like my cousins, shiny hair like my mom's, curly hair like grandma's or basically any hair that I say on T.V. I have grown since then, but when I was a child my hair was an obsession. It could have been the thousands of pictures I saw in the media, it could have been because I was the only "bald-headed little girl in my family" it could have been because I was mistaken as a boy on more than one occasion. Whatever the reason, I know for a fact that as a child, I prayed for hair more than I prayed for anything else. Ok, so where is she going with this you ask? Is this true confessions or something...?

I said all of that to say this, last post I was complaining about the thickness of my hair; something I took great solace in. It was the one measure I held on to, my defining measure of beauty for my hair. This week I looked in the mirror and it had changed. All of sudden it looked thicker. No matter which angle I turned toward, there was no scalp. It has returned. "Ask and ye shall receive." Although, I certainly did not pray for my hair to become thicker, it reminded me of all the times I did pray for a change in my hair.

I know the pictures above don't show any of this change, but it is a picture of my hair during the third week. The Midwest is known for it's change in weather and this was after a snowfall and after playing tackle football in the snow with my little one.