I am not a “cool” mom per se. Not saying that I’m a bad mom, just not a cool one. Making sure that you have clean underwear and food does not make you cool… if it did, I would be cool. The boy and I discuss this at length. Most of the time, I’m not bothered by not being “cool”. The boy often offers to trade places with me… stating that he’ll be responsible and I can go blow things up with them. In all honesty?
Blowing things up just isn’t cool for me.
So, I hold down the fort while the five of them go off on adventures.
But about once a year I do something that’s totally cool…. something that lasts for about half hour or so… but shocks them all. Last year, it was when I took the boys out on the jet ski.
This year?
I gave them mohawks.
No, really. I did.
No. I don’t know what came over me.
I scalped styled Thing 1 first… except he was third in line for haircuts… I had already buzzed the hubs and Thing 3.
Then Thing 3 saw Thing 1 and he wanted one too…
“I can’t do that unless Mom says it’s okay.” It’s a mom thing. I know how I would feel if Thing 1 came home with a mohawk and I didn’t know about it. (Never mind that I did it with out his father’s permission… but seeings how his dad has tattoos and piercings… and alot of them, I assumed that this would be okay.)
The look in Thing 3′s eyes was serious. I could see the wheels turning. And just like that, with a determined voice, he looked at the hubs and said, “Where’s the phone?”
He called his mom and got permission. And after I made the hubs confirm that she did, indeed, say yes, I sat Thing 3 down and gave him a mohawk too.
“Now, boys,” I said as they were giddy with their new hair and the like, “this is only until school starts and then I level it off, understood?”
They both responded with “yes ma’am” and again studied their new fangled hair in the mirror.
I figured there was only two weeks of summer left and they should do something fun. The grandfathers will probably kill me, but I’m not sending them to school, their new schools, where first impressions are everything, with them.
Of course, now that they have mohawks they’ve been asking to color the longer part different colors and Thing 1 has renamed himself “Rooster Boy”
And never mind the fact that when I said they could keep them until school started that I forgot that I’m shipping my oldest off to a very affluent man’s house in Michigan on a missions trip… of course, that just made thing 1 want to shave crosses in the back of his head.
Give them an inch…
But yes, it’s just for 2 weeks…. just until school starts…. which, can I say, I’m slightly excited about this?
Thing 2, barring no problems, will be home the day before school starts… with stories to share from her trek across the country. And that same day? We get a raise, because we don’t have to write that day care check every week… (never mind the fact that we already know where that money is going… right back into the houses we need to fix up to sell…)
AND?
I checked the bus schedule tonight….
ALL FOUR WILL RIDE THE SAME BUS AND GET ON THE BUS AT THE SAME TIME IN THE MORNING.
There is a God.
That’s one bus number to remember…
And one time to ship them all out the door…
And one bus driver name to remember….
(Which, by the way, her name? Cinderella… it’s even an easy one for me to remember…)
On top of that? We’re one of the last stops, meaning we can sleep in a little bit longer…
Thank you, Lord!
Only 12 more days!!!!
Until next time…
Good for you! I’ve never figured out why things like this are such a *huge* deal to parents. We preach over & over that it’s what’s inside that counts, yet continue to judge others based on their clothing styles, hairdos, piercings, etc.
I’m all for my daughter being able to express her creativity through her looks. I did the same, and still managed to ‘get it together’ when it was time to deal in the business world. It definitely taught me a lot about looking beyond the outer package.
You have got to be a cool mom!!!! I would never have done that to my kids. Oh my goodness, my parents would have shot me.
My 16 year old wants highlights in her hair and I won’t let her get them, because I think she is too young. See, that is where my age comes into play. I am old enough to be your mom so therefore to me a mohawk is just taboo. I go out to events and take pictures of people with mohawks. LOL I am still amazed at parents that give their 4 or 5 year olds a mohawk, so I know you have to be a cool mom.
I am proud of your courage, I just know I couldn’t do it. Tell the boys they do look cool though, even if it is for only 2 weeks.
Today, you are the cool mom. Revel in it.
I’m the same kind of mom as you, it sounds like – only “cool” on occasion – so revel in it while you can! Those mohawks are fantastic!
Awesome on getting that ‘raise’ – we are about to begin paying tuition again. Although it’s just a small amount, and I won’t be driving all over creation like I do all summer – well, it’s still a bit of a bummer even though it is a savings in the end!
And the bus/time/driver thing – that has to be the best news ever!
Happy two-weeks-til-school! (Did I say that like I’m counting down the days?!?)
I love this post! I need to do something surprising for my kids. School doesn’t start here until after Labor Day so I have some time. My 3rd son loves mohawks. He’s had a couple… loved the looks he got in preschool with his mohawk. It fit him.
Congrats on the 4 on 1 bus. How in the world did you manage that?!