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Thanksgiving 2010 - free slideshows

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for Steve, Izabella, Taylor, Soxy, Joey and Emily

and

mom, tom,

dad, laura,

david, melissa, josh, marin, lily,

bonnie, joe,

char, david, austin, cheradyn, camryn, apollo

joe

deanna, britt, kady, jilly

auntie ann

uncle rob

carrie, jason, jackson and ella.

and

health, happiness, love, good friends

and

CRAZY sales Thanksgiving night............... ;)

Lots of LOVE for Locks of LOVE!

I am the mother of two beautiful girls, my oldest is 18 and my youngest is 8 years old. I think, as parents, we see teachable moment’s everyday, everywhere. We can either take advantage of that and make the most of it or ignore it entirely. It’s the decision to make the most of these moments that have helped create the beautiful spirits that they have become.

This weekend, my 8 year old taught ME something. She’s been trying to grow her hair out for some time now and we’ve been doing a pretty good job at that. But this weekend she decided she wanted to cut it off. As we were sitting there getting ready to cut off all this beautiful hair I asked the hairdresser if she thought her hair was long enough to donate. We went online and found 2 places, one was a 10 in requirement and yours was 8 inches. We took the tape out and started measuring. We had enough for both, but the important question became “was Momma ready to let all of that beautiful hair go?” That’s when it happened. My sweet angel looked at me and said “Momma, its just hair! It’ll grow back if I don’t like it this short and if they can give my hair to someone who doesn’t have any then they can have it!” And…she was right. It is just hair. Some of us look at it as part of our identity. Some of us look at it as a security blanket. But, for those people who don’t have any, for whatever reason, its precious! So…we did it! We put her hair in a ponytail and we cut off the 8 inches that it will take to help create a wig for someone who desperately needs it. We found out that it takes 6 of those ponytails to make just one wig. Just ONE! Incredible!! She’s inspired me to do the same thing, I have more than enough hair and the next time I go in I will be donating mine as well. I hope this donation helps in some small way and just know that a little girl with a VERY big heart hopes the same thing.

Izabella BEFORE....

Izabella AFTER....