Putting 100% Trust in My Husband

I trust my husband implicitly. I always have and always will. As evidence, I ask him to cut my hair on occasion. He is the one responsible for cutting the children's hair (trust me, there is no option that I be the one to do this as I couldn't cut a straight line to save my life). Every time I ask, he is always more than willing. And fortunately, he does give a pretty good hair cut.

I have wanted to cut my hair since October. I've been growing out a bad haircut (a professional one) since Gracie was born and it just hasn't been working out for me. So, Eric and I have been bringing up the idea of him cutting my hair for 6 months. One thing or another always comes up, or we forget about it, and it just hasn't happened yet...

Until last night! Now by this point, my hair had grown past my shoulder blades. I thought it would be a nice change of pace to have it cut to chin length, and that would also be enough to cut out all the "bad" parts of my last hair cut. We had nothing better to do so we decided to just do it. Eric wanted me to wash my hair first so that it would be wet when he cut it. I thought it wouldn't be necessary, and I also thought it would help to keep the length where I wanted it when it was dry. I pulled my hair straight (remember this part, it is very important), put my fingers at chin length, and Eric used that mark as his starting point. He started cutting. By the time he was at the back of my head I put my hand up and realized my hair was just below my ear! Eric had cut from where my fingers were, but I had pulled my hair down to mark it, so it obviously was much shorter when it was just hanging naturally. But there was no turning back now. Eric continued to cut and did a wonderful job of evening it all out. But it was so much shorter than I had wanted.

I was kind of in a state of shock at first. Eric was very apologetic. He also told me, with all sincerity, that he really liked it and thought it looked good. It has grown on me since last night and I pretty much like it. The mindset that Eric and I have always approached him cutting my hair with is: it's just hair, it will grow back. So, it will grow back. And in the meantime, I am so glad that Eric likes me with short hair. It will also be nice during the summer to not have hair on my neck. And then it will grow back!