Saying Goodbye is Hard to Do...For Me!!

Yesterday was a very sad day in the Goddard house...at least for me. Jaron has been growing out his hair since the beginning of the school year and I have loved it! It looks so cute on him and he has had many people tell him that he looks like Zac Efron. We have been caught on occasion calling him Zac or Troy (from High School Musical) and surprisingly he responds. However, the summer is coming and along with that comes the HOT weather. Jaron has really thick, nice hair that has been making him extra hot the last few weeks so he has been asking me if he could cut it short like it used to be. I kept putting him off hoping he would change his mind, but without success.

This is the routine we had every morning to get his hair done (I will actually miss it). When he would wake up in the morning his hair was always messy, like he had stuck his finger in an electrical socket. First thing I would do is get it all wet and brush it to the side.



Then I would blow dry it, still keeping it to the side. Then, much to Jaron's dismay, I would use a flat iron on it to get rid of some of the waves in the front. Luckily I didn't burn him with it very much, only a couple times or so, and it never was very bad (it was usually when he moved).



After that I would use some hair wax on him to style it exactly where I wanted it to stay and then use a little hairspray to give it a little bit more of a hold. Of course he's a boy, so he would always find a way to have it messy by the end of the school day. All of this actually only would take about ten minutes every morning so it wasn't a bad thing. I didn't mind doing it at all.



This is what the finished product would usually look like in the morning, and this was what Jaron looked like yesterday when I sent him off to school. I knew what was coming after school. I still tried to convince him that he should keep his hair long all the way up to him leaving for school, but still no success. I hoped, in my head, that he would chicken out because I know he likes his hair long. I think it's because the girls tell him they think it's cute on him, but he won't say that's the reason. He just kept telling me all morning that he just wants it short for summer to make it cooler for him and will grow it back when school starts again.


After school I went over to Denise's house for the "big" cut. I was hoping my hormones wouldn't kick in and make me teary eyed. She started shaving one side of his head..it was too late to back out now. Jaron seemed happy during the whole thing. All I kept thinking about was "how long will it take for his hair to grow back". I know that's really sad, but I really loved his hair long.

After it was all done Denise noticed that the back of Jaron's neck was a little whiter than the rest of it. His hair has been long for so long that he wasn't getting any sun back there. He will fix that this summer while he plays in the pool.


This was all the hair that was cut off of my little "Zac". In actual size, his pile of cut off hair was about one foot long by almost another foot wide and a couple inches high. It seriously would take two years worth of hair cuts on me to equal that amount of hair. Jaron can thank his dad for that. Josh is the one with the thick hair.


This is what Jaron looked like after his dramatic cut. Still so cute, but looks so different. Josh almost didn't recognize him. I asked Jaron if he likes it and he said, in kind of a hesitant voice, "yes". I think he likes it, it will just take some time to get used to it for all of us. I sound really sad, like someone died, but no one has thank goodness.

So, this was Jaron this morning before he left for school. He was a little nervous, but excited, to see what his friends would say at school.


This is what Jaron looked like when I picked him up from school. Apparently, he had a run in with some rocks and the ground in PE. He scraped up his face, arm, and knee pretty good. I asked him if his balance was all messed up because his hair was all cut off. He didn't think I was funny, I was just trying to make light of the situation...what was funny is that when we got home and he showed Josh, he asked him the same thing. Great minds think alike, I guess.


Jaron said that a few friends didn't recognize him at first, but they all, including some of the teachers, said they really liked his new hair cut. I look forward to having a break from doing hair...that is until it's back! You are still a cutie our little Jar-Bear!!