Snip, Snip, Snip, for a great cause

A few months ago I was reading a blog and somehow I ended up on the blog of a really lovely family. Their youngest daughter is under going chemo at the moment. Lily saw me reading the blog one day and she asked me about the girls as all 3 of them are just gorgeous. I explained about Hailey and it made her resolve even stronger to donate her hair. You can meet Hailey and her beautiful sisters here . Stop by and say Hi and send some love their way.

Her hair has been driving her nuts because of swimming but she refused to cut it. Yesterday I measured it when she came in from school and she finally had enough to donate to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths Program. I asked her if she wanted to go next Thursday right after school got out and her response was, can I go now? I asked her if she was sure since she wasn't going to have much hair left and sometimes kids can get a bit funny. She told me she was making a choice, kids with cancer don't make the choice to get cancer and she would deal with it. (not much I could say to that. She is one logical and caring soul) I rang Jill who said, can you come right now? We did.


I didn't take a before photo. Yeah, I know DUH. But Jill was fitting us in and she was so happy to do it that she just got started and I didn't think. This photo shows how long it was.

One, two, three, SNIP.

evening out her hair and adding a few layers, oo, la la.

Blow dry time

Jill and shorty...but it isn't so short.

I love it.

Lily loves the way her hair looks. When I was measuring her hair I wasn't measuring it in a ponytail I was measuring it from her chin down. With the minimum required for a donation I had her hair level with her chin. She was fine with it but a bit nervous. When we got to Jill, she immediately pulled it back into a ponytail and then measured it. Lily cut over 9 inches of hair and still has a lot left. She spent the rest of the evening flicking her head about and generally being a fashion model. I have to say that I think she looks gorgeous with her shorter do. ( I was really hating that long stringy hair )

Oh and as we were sitting there waiting for her, a tornado warning was issued. Yesterday was June 1st the start of the Atlantic Hurricane season. We've already had two named storms this year and now we are getting tornado warnings. WTF. we don't get those here. Oh happy times.

Helping to hold up the sky

On February 12 2012, girlies are going to be doing a walk -a -thon to raise money for Half The Sky. The walk is being organised by another HTS mummy, through our local FCC group. (Families with Children from China)

Half the Sky is an organisation that our family is passionate about. Rosie is a Half The Sky child and without them I shudder to think of the care she, as a special needs child, would have received.

No child ever deserves to be raised in an orphanage but if it has to be, one can only hope it is run by HTS.

Below is a photo of Rosie and a brief update about her from her Nanny. This article was in one of HTS's newsletters a few months after we bought her home.

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We are asking all of you to scrounge down the back of the couch, check the pockets of coats you haven't worn in a few months, check your old handbags and kindly donate that money by sponsoring Lily and Rosie.

Lily set up her own webpage for the event and you can donate directly though this link.

Lily and Rosie's HTS webpage

No amount is to small.

Thank you so much.