Violet Voices

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Okay, cheesy title, I know. I promised to post the hair cutting episode from my novel, @Home For The Holidays, which is a comedy fiction book about stay-at-home moms (SAHMs). It’s the sequel to my first book, SAHM I Am. This is an email from my main character, Dulcie, to a bunch of her stay-at-home mom friends on the internet. Here you go…

My twins’ hair! Their long, beautiful dark brown tresses with the little bit of curl…GONE! I got home today and they both ran up to me, and I hardly recognized them. I found the culprit—that IMP, McKenzie, hiding behind the sofa, looking much like Adam and Eve must have when God came to check up on them in the garden. Tom just stood in the middle of the living room, cringing, waiting for my reaction.

“WHERE DID SHE GET SCISSORS FROM?”

“I’m so sorry, sweetheart,” he said, “She did it while I was cleaning up some broken glass.” Smooth evasion of the scissor question, but I was so distracted by the glass news that I let him get away with it.

“Broken glass???”

He held up a bandaged finger. “Let’s just say it’s been a long day…”

And I can’t even put the ponytails in their baby books because McKenzie STUFFED THEM DOWN THE TUB DRAIN! Plumbers are frightfully expensive, I found out.

I should just turn around and go back to the office. That’s what I should do. My poor little girls’ hair! No more bows. No more braids. No more ribbons. I told McKenzie I should cut off her hair, too, so it matches. That made her cry, so now I feel like a bad mom, too. But why should she get to keep her pretty hair when her sisters will look like shaggy refugees for MONTHS!

Heartbroken,

Dulcie

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Written By: Meredith Efken
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