You Can’t Leave Them Alone For a Minute
Today I had the joy of having lunch with our Senior Ladies in the ‘Steadfast’ Sunday School Class. One of the class member’s sister has the most wonderful cabin on the mountain where we live. I spent the afternoon, alone I might add since Luke stayed home with the children, laughing and eating and laughing some more with the most precious women (and a few hubbies) you can imagine! They truly are the backbone of our church and I want to be just like all of them when I grow up! We hiked through the woods and looked at beautiful mountain laurel and rhododendrons in full bloom. It was such an enjoyable day. So enjoyable in fact, I couldn’t wait to call Luke on my way home and tell him all about it.
Me: Hey hon, just wanted to call and tell you I’m on my way home…
Luke: You are? Oh good. You might want to hurry. Number Two decided he would help the Princess with her braids. He has a brush stuck in her hair and I can’t get it out.
Me: How long has she had it in her hair??????!!??
Luke: Oh, about an hour.
So while I was gone, laughing, eating, hiking, with nary a care in the world, my precious little 4 year old girl was walking around in yesterday’s clothes with a hairbrush hanging in her hair. Here is what I found when I got home:
If you are slack jawed right now with the words “Oh.My.Goodness” on your tongue, well you’d be having the same reaction I did. It took me FORTYFIVEMINUTES to get that brush out of her hair. It looked like she got it caught in a motor…Needless to say, Number Two was a little distraught. All he could manage was, “I didn’t mean to!!!” I don’t know what gave him the idea I might blow a gasket :) I am still just baffled as to why in the world the child thought he wanted to help braid her hair?? I still have no words.
So I’m thinking the next time I need to be away from home, in addition to putting away the sharp knives and rat poison, I’m totally locking up the round brushes. Because they are, after all, very dangerous.
pleased you had a great time
youre poor wee daughter.
Ah yes…adventures in girls hair! We have had peanut butter, maple syrup, a hair brush, a hair dryer, a big piece of seeweed and a stick all stuck in dd hair at one time or another. It would probably make for an interesting post. :)
Anyway….cute story, glad you could get away even though it was for a short time…..mommies NEED to do that!
Sandy
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Oh heavens…
I did that to myself when I was little and actually got scissors and cut it out – luckily that didn’t happen to your little one. :)
I can’t believe that only took 45 minutes. I am really surprised she still has her long hair left. Too bad #3 wasn’t there to help #2 get it out. Haha. By the way, thanks for sharing him with us. I don’t know who enjoys having him around more, the kids or us.
This is SO funny! This was priceless! I mean, your poor little girl, but this was such a wonderful “while mommy is away” story! :D
Yep, better lock up those dangerous brushes next time!
LOL! Once I left my two year old with my hubby, I came home and found them at the ER. She had put Super Glue in her ear!!! You just never know what a kid will dream up!!!
oh my, that does look painful! I’m just glad you didn’t have to cut it to get it out!
Oh my goodness is right! I feel sorry for you sweet girl! Ouch!
It does sound like you had a great day. Our seniors ladies at church call their Sunday School Class, the Steadfast class.
We had a beautiful day in east Tennessee. The lesson in Sunday School was awesome and we came home and changed clothes and went to my parents, my dad had made a roast for all of us and we visted awhile and came home and I sat on the deck with a nice breeze. I love Sunday afternoons.
Have a great week. Oh, how did your speaking engagement go?
Blessings,
Patty
Princess, next time you see any one of your brothers or your dad, for that matter, coming at your head with a round brush…run for your life! NO male without a cosmitology degree should be allowed to go near a round brush! I have long curly hair, my dad did this to me once! It was awful!! Awful!! awful!! Hello? do you REALLY think you could get a brush through THIS HAIR?!
Hey…I followed the link from Nspiredbyfaith…what a thing to come home to! WOW! That would have made me cringe too, but I’m glad you didn’t have to use scissors to get it out…no telling short her hair may have ended up! :-)
Oh My Goodness! I too was gone all day. I did have one kid with me…unfortunately for the man, it was the helpful one! But all I came home to was the same mess I left, and a birthday cake with some baby handprints in it!
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Haha..and I must admit I did the same thing once! Except I did it to myself…couldn’t blame brother for that one! Dad had to HAMMER the brush out of my hair. Can you imagine that thing coming at your head while it lay helpless on the kitchen counter?! Needless to say, I haven’t touched a round brush since. :)
Brother’s can get you into some prediciments can’t they?
Mine once handcuffed my left arm to my right ankle……assuring me he had the key…..
Only to find out he didn’t and we had to wait for my dad to come home……..at around 9:30 pm!!!!
Maybe she won’t be scarred for life — but I gaurentee she won’t let him help with braids again — especially not with a ROUND brush…..bless her heart!
Round brushes are of Satan.
Just my opinion.
(And I just posted about the way my daughter looked when I returned — on Mother’s Day — from a short getaway with my husband. Let’s just say military tattoos are involved. You never know what you’re going to find after a trip away.)
Oh my gosh, the poor thing. That looks painful. At least your son was trying I suppose!
WOW! I am speechless! Your family is always up to something aren’t they? It is a blessing that God allowed you so much laughter before finding that rat’s nest! :o) I hope my household is always bustling with new adventures.