
Final week, I informed my daughter, Boo, I might be at her end-of-the-year get together. She requested me to not.
Then she mentioned, “However Daddy can go.” Insert a knife into the center.
Once I requested her why she did not need me to go, she mentioned, “Due to your brief hair.”
Me: Why does it matter that I’ve brief hair?
Boo: As a result of the youngsters ask, “Why does your mother have brief hair?”
Me: And what do you inform them?
Boo: As a result of she had most cancers.
She thought my hair was nonetheless brief due to having most cancers — as if it did not develop anymore.
I informed her that my hair was brief now as a result of I selected to maintain it that approach.
After which we got here up with a handful of solutions she may use as a substitute:
“Perhaps the identical cause you’ve got brief hair?”
“As a result of she’s lazy.”
“Oh, her? No thought who she is.”
However severely, after I considered it, the reality is that I am lazy about hair. I do not need to spend time doing my hair. I can prepare in 5 minutes flat and no hairdryer is required, ever.
Sure, generally I do want I had my lengthy, flowing locks, however I am unsure I am prepared to surrender the liberty I’ve with my brief haircut.
And I noticed that there are issues my daughter will eternally connect to most cancers, just like the lack of my hair. She does not keep in mind the hospitals, or the surgical procedures, or anything — however she remembers my hair. And so I am torn about protecting it brief, only for that cause.
Then I noticed, together with the hair, that I would additionally by no means actually totally recovered bodily.
So, final week I took a giant step and signed up for Crossfit. And I signed my husband, Brett, up, too, as a result of we will go collectively very first thing within the morning. And we already know 95 p.c of the individuals there, as a result of it’s a really small city.
Sure, it is just a little intimidating however I am going to make up my very own guidelines like I all the time do. The signal that mentioned “no water breaks” on the wall? I broke that rule 5 minutes in.
I feel it is going to be enjoyable… apart from snatches. I undoubtedly will not do quite a lot of snatches. I will be taking water breaks throughout snatch time. Yeah, you may’t make me; I am going to throw a silent tantrum.
(Plus, I can not cease laughing on the phrase snatch, identical to I can not cease laughing when somebody says the phrase beaver. I needed to say that phrase the opposite day on the vet and I virtually choked attempting to carry the laughter in.)
Perhaps someday I am going to mature. And possibly I am going to develop my hair again out. And possibly I am going to be capable to climb up a flight of stairs with out being winded.
Ashley Hackshaw is the author, blogger, and artistic pressure behind the DIY/Life-style web site Lil Blue Boo.