Saturday, January 26, 2008

Nelly Hair

This morning as I was getting Mike's breakfast , packing his lunch, and generally helping him get ready for work I turned on the TV. This is not at all unusual as I usually have the Morning news on to see how cold it is going to be , if any trucks have hit any bridges, or accidents have occurred closing roads that Mike takes to work , and so on. This being Saturday the news was not on so I flipped from infomercial to infomercial until I found Little House on the Prairie reruns. I always loved this show as a kid especially Nelly Olsen. being the shy middle child of a lower middle class family myself, I loved that Nelly was confident. Yes she was a bit too spoiled but I would have loved to be her. Nelly was what I always dreamed that my daughter would be. I wanted to name Cindy Penelope and call her Nelly in the worst way but Mike wouldn't hear of it. In hind sight I should have never gave in but going against his wishes at the time coupled with and the rest of the family calling me nuts I did give in. As I watched the show this morning( the one where Nelly gives birth to twins) it hit me. I did have Nelly for a daughter. The similarities were amazing. I have a beautiful confident daughter who can be a little overbearing but is still sensitive and loving. The funny part was that as I was thinking that Cindy should have the name Nelly Cindy walked in. She looked at the TV then at me and asked" Do you think I can do my hair like Nelly's for prom?" Now hair styles are not my thing but " why not ? " I answered. So now I have to find a back view of Nelly and see if it can be done for our Nelly's ( um I mean Cindy's) prom. So here is a call out to all of my relatives that do hair; Can Cindy's be done like that ?