I Have No Doubt That She'll Do It
"Momma, when I'm bigger enough, can I dye my hair?" Alexis asked.
The kid spends entirely too much time concerning herself with the future. She plans and plans and plans, creating benchmarks and goals and dreams and aspirations. She sticks to them all, too, so I have to be careful how I answer her.
"I'll think about it," I decided to go with the safest answer possible.
"Can I have pink streaks?" she continued. "And some purple ones, too!" she added.
I thought about it for a second and realized I really wasn't opposed to her dying her hair bright colors. Just not NOW, obviously. Maybe in ten years.
I know better than to leak any sort of time frame, however, so I said, "I'll think about it." Always with the safest answer possible.
"OK," Alexis said. She tends to accept the "think about it" line, but only because she knows she can ask 5,301,924 more times or until I just cave.
Realizing that I wasn't really in the mood to spend the entire day answering the same question, I decided to scope out just far ahead the kid was planning this time. Sometimes she's plotting what she'll do next week, but usually she's trying to schedule every moment of her teen years. At the rate she's making plans, she's going to have to have about eight 16th birthday parties if she wants to fit it all in. "When are you trying to put pink streaks in your hair?" I asked.
"Ummm... When I'm 60! Can I dye my hair when I'm 60?" she asked with an air of excitement in her voice.
I chucked before answering, "Absolutely. You can absolutely put pink streaks in your hair when you're 60."
It's nice getting to be the good guy once in a while.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Reader Comments (11)
Amazing.
Are you sure she didn't say 16? LOL!
My daughter just turned 12 and so far she has had blue, green and purple streaks in her hair. She loves being herself and individual; I love that she is confident enough to carry off that look.
Most awesome 60 year old ever. In fact, I might steal her idea when I turn 60.
She'll be a rocking 60 year old!
That kinda makes me wanna get pink streaks in my hair when I'm sixty. That sounds like a great time to get them to me. She is a smart cookie! :)
Hope you had a lovely Mother's Day!
Awesome, I love it.
And kudos to you with the helmet-wearing while she's riding her bike! (I remember a comment about this in my blog history. :-) )
Now the thing is... ask her how old she thinks YOU are, and compare. haha. sorry about what the results could be. When I was younger, and my dad was in his early 30s... I guessed his was 58. Just sayin... lol
@nycldenise--Aw, hell. You're probably on to something.
She'll be a cool 60-year old, pink and purple streaked hair and all.
I begged my mom for YEARS to let me highlight my hair. Of course I was more like 12 or 13 and not 6! Meanwhile, mom wouldn't let me color my hair for the longest time and we eventually made a bet about what I would do if I ever had a teenage daughter who wanted to color her hair. I said I'd be the coolest mom ever and let her. My mom called bullshit. Lucky for us both I don't have a daughter. Yet. Good luck. You have your hands full.