Color my world

Last week I finally agreed to have an awning put on our house--not a clunky aluminum (apologies to anyone who may love aluminum awnings), but a nice fabric one, burgundy in fact. I wanted a straight edge to finish it off, but Tim won out with a scalloped edge with a small floral like design in white. The main reason to have it, is to help Mark in his bedroom--his room gets so hot in the summer time. We have put it off because I have shunned the idea of an awning on our house (thinking it looks old fashioned or even store-front like), but the salesman convinced me that it will be beautiful.

Keeping with our coloring theme, Christina had been begging all last week to dye her hair purple--only a few little highlights, she promised, and Luke (a hair dye expert, albeit it only in our bathroom on his or Mark's friends or themselves) would help her. Our agreement was, be nice to mom for a week and we'll see. (Not an easy job for a 14 year old girl with raging hormones)

Well, she did it, and on Sunday night, after our small group friends left, she took over the bathroom and colored it and herself purple. Prince (aka crooner of Purple Rain, aka the artist formerly known as Prince, aka Prince Roger Nelson) would have been proud. She had a little trouble, Luke was unavailable/unwilling to help, and her whole head ended up being purple, along with part of the bathroom walls, a towel, various spots on the floor and some tiny drops on carpet in a couple of rooms in the house, not to mention the towel she used to dry her hair.

Ah, youth. At least the reaction at her private school wasn't too bad. She didn't get expelled--the principal commented on it, "Oh, Christina, you did something to your hair...." a few teachers liked it ("Isn't Vikings season over?") and only one friend commented that she looked Goth.

The top part isn't really dyed--I'm hoping in a couple of weeks we can cut it (and that it will fade) so she will look closer to normal for confirmation and graduation (from 8th grade).

Kids.

Till next time,


Suzi