Locks of Love

I meant to do this post with pictures but my camera is dead this morning. I will have to upload them when this afternoon. Anyway, anyone who has known me for any real length of time knows that I always have long hair. ALWAYS. There are many different reasons for it. Part of it is a culture thing, part of it is that I think that long hair is pretty. Most of it is just that I love my hair. I was blessed with my hair genes I guess. With the combination of Native American and Italian that I have running through me, there was no chance that I be a blond! Anyway, I love my long really dark shiny hair. But over the past 7 years there is something that I love even more. It is Locks of Love. Every year since my great aunt Mary Rose was first diagnosed with breast cancer, I have donated my hair to this wonderful charity. What they do is take real human hair and make wigs for women and children that have lost their hair due to chemo treatments. You have to have a minimum of 8 inches of hair to donate. So that is usually not to hard for me to do. I just grow my hair out and then let my friend Tracey cut it the 8 inches. This usually brings my hair to about my shoulder blades. Then I grown it back out and cut it the next year. So that was sort of the plan this year too. But when I got to the salon I decided to go all out. She cut off way more han the 8 inches needed and now my normally long hair is short! Like above my shoulders! I don't think that it has been this short since I was about a year old. I mean I left the hospital as a baby wih a pony tail! This is definately taking some getting used to, but it was for such a great cause. My Aunt lost her battle with cancer this past year. I know how hard it was for her to lose her hair. She was older, in her 70s, but she still had a full thick head of jet black hair. It was gorgeous! So I hope that my hair goes to a wonderful person just like my aunt. I encourage people to donate their hair all the time. It really is painless and our hair will grow back. And it means so much to those people that receive the wigs. I will definately post pics later so that you can see the difference. Don't judge my abilities to fix my hair yet though because it is so different to fix short hair than long hair!