So, school is back in session for me and I have been spending any and all me-myself-and-I time up to my eyesockets in the books. Or maybe I should say, up to my orbicularis oculi. Yeah, it’s pretty serious.

I’ve taken to getting up at 5:30am in order to catch a quick shower, and then study until 7am when I get the girls. I study whenever they are asleep or supposed to be sleeping. I see all components of the cardiovascular system behind my eyeballs and am constantly amazed how pervasive information about regulating heart rate, blood pressure, blood volume, and heart health is in our media.

In between all of this, I have somehow managed to make dinners, breakfasts, and lunches. I have bathed little bodies, washed inordinate amounts of laundry, put gas in my car, read innumerable pages of Shel Silverstein, Richard Scary, and friends innumerable amounts of time. Of course, “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout” is one of my favorites, so I can’t complain on that one.

Somewhere in there, I took Mo-dizzle out to get her hair done — in a salon — just like a grown-up — for the very first time. We went to BestCuts and Miss Vonnie was outstanding in making Mo-dizz feel comfortable. I totally expected her to put Mo on a stack of phone books and lean her back over the sink for a shampoo, but was pleasantly surprised (and relieved) to see Miss Vonnie use a spray bottle and assorted hair accoutrements after draping Mo in a kid friendly drape and booster pillow.

Mo had an inch taken off all around, and no, I didn’t save the little hair scraps for her baby book. Shame on me, right? Then, after perusing several volumes of Dudley Q Hair Designs, we decided to have Mo’s hair braided into some zig-zag cornrows. All in all, about an hour and a half in the chair with the promise of some popcorn from Target (she’s so easy), and Mo-dizz was good to go.

Sitting in the chair, getting the ‘do done!

Our first trip to the hairdresser and I can’t really complain. Excellent service, on time, great price, happy kid and I don’t have to do any hair for at least a week. Popcorn from Target for everyone!!

Morgan got her hair “did”!!