Locks of Love

In January of 2009, at 7 years old, a special little girl gave a special gift...

The Bible says that if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her...and God has given Elizabeth the gift of growing very long hair.  When she was little, she dreamed of growing long hair...but she didn't want to keep it for herself.  She wanted to give it to a little girl who needed it.  So...when she was 7 years old, we agreed to let her donate her hair to Locks of Love for the first time.
Here it was before:

And after:

We were afraid it would be hard on her...after all, she was a little girl who was known for her hair.  But she loved it!  It was too short for ponytails, so she wore it with hats and hair clips and did all sorts of things that she couldn't do with long hair:

But, as time passed, that got old, and she did miss her long hair.  Thankfully, it grew back incredibly fast!  She determined that she wanted to grow it even longer than the first time so if she ever donated it again, she would still be able to put it up.

Lately, she started to talk a lot about donating her hair again.  This time, she rather suddenly made up her mind that it was time.  She wasn't nearly as sentimental about it...just very matter of factly said she was ready to cut it again.  Realizing that she was going to be spending a lot of time in the water this summer, and that it was unlikely her hair would be healthy enough to donate in the fall, we agreed that this was a good time. 

This time, we cut it at home:

And the matching before picture:

Foot long ponytails:

All chopped off: 

And after it's trimmed:

I'm no hair stylist, so in a month or so we'll probably take her in for another trim to even it all out just right.  

Should be easy to take care of for the summer, but long enough to keep her daddy happy.  :-)

I think she's pretty beautiful...inside and out.