Hi Everyone!
I hope you had a great weekend!
Thursday night, I had to work extraordinarily late – until 10:15 at night. Because Kayla is attending day camp here where I work, and Mark was out of town that night, she got to stay at the office with me, and I have to say that she waited about as patiently as you could ask a nine-year old to do. She played lawyer for a while, interrogating imaginary people on a play phone, read a little bit, drew pictures and kept herself occupied for five hours so I could concentrate on my e-filing.
I was so proud of her, and so grateful for her patience that I decided to schedule Saturday morning to take her to get her hair done and to get a manicure and pedicure. I explained to her Friday night what we were doing Saturday and why, and she turned to me with her eyes wide and asked, “All that for one patience?” Visions of shelling out her entire college savings to her as rewards for such things as waiting two or three minutes before interrupting Mark and I dancing in my head, I told her quickly not to get used to it! She thought that was funny.
Saturday morning, she popped out of her room at 7:00 fully dressed announcing,” I’m ready to go be made beautiful!” She was a little early, but by 8:30, we headed out to the salon as we had to be there at 9. I had planned about an hour and 15 minutes for the hair and scheduled the nail appointment accordingly, planning that Kayla would ask for her hair to be blown straight. She has never once walked into a salon and asked for her hair to be more curly – until Saturday. The lady cutting her hair had naturally curly hair in tight ringlets cascading down her back, and that was the look that Kayla wanted. (Kayla told the stylist that she had always wanted curly hair. I nearly fell out of my chair laughing!) They managed to come up with a way to do it, but it took a little longer than we expected.
Towards the end, I got a chance to take some pictures of Kayla while she was “on the chair.”
I think I like it!
Uh Oh! She's taking my picture....
Maybe if I ignore her she will stop it!
Oh well, I'll have a good time anyhow even if she is taking my picture!
The pictures alone were worth the entire expedition, but we also got our nails done, and I got a real kick watching her explore the mysteries of the Spa Massage Chair she was sitting in!
Have a great day everyone!
Nancy
Tales from the Mom-Side 
Fun!! She’s going to treasure these little moments with Mom later on. How special for her (and you)!
Yes, it was a fun day. Of course, I had to get my hair and nails done too!
Your daughter is very pretty Nancy, I hope your hubbs has a shotgun. 🙂 If I have a girl one day, I’ll to go back and re-read all your posts 🙂
Thanks! We think Kayla is beautiful. I shudder to think about when she starts dating and driving once she is thirty! 🙂
Your daughter is gorgeous! Congratulations for being a working mom. I love your posts. I gave up my Wall Street career when my daughter was one-and-a-half. It was an incredibly difficult decisions – it’s incredibly difficult either way you go. I just remember the first month was very hard – especially when I realized I now worked for a demanding, irrational boss that cried and I got paid nothing – oh yeah, and I was on call 24/7.
I especially love your post on the rules. I laid them out for my three year old already – might as well get a head start.
They don’t get much more rational as they get older; just illogical in new and different ways. They do cry a little less!