The Hair

So someone asked me to post pictures of my hair (Hi Alli!) after the last post wherein I mentioned a new "style" for me. First, a little background:
I was a hairless baby girl and in looking at pictures, it took quite a while for me to get any hair on my head. This is me at about 6 months old, I think:

As a little girl, my hair was blond and later white-blond and fairly straight. It was also pretty long. It parted in the middle, like most girls my age and I had no bangs.I think I'm about 3 in this picture and my hair looks an awful lot like Pattie's!

When I was in 7th grade I got the first haircut I can ever remember. The little Filipino lady cut me some "wisps" as she called them, just a little bit of bang in the front. Alas, all those years of a middle part made them very uncooperative. A friend of mine teased me and started calling me "McDonald's" because my bangs looked like the golden arches! No pictures, not really sorry.
In high school, I slept every night in sponge rollers and fluffed my hair out in the morning and curled my bangs with some going back and some coming forward. I was fashioning myself after a friend of mine who I greatly admired and adored. I thought she was the prettiest girl in the whole school and she did her hair like that. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?

Junior year of high school 1992-93

So in my senior year of school, as you who know me know already, I met my future hubby and he wasn't a big hair fan. Lucky me, but that was the only way I knew how to "do" my hair so I was kind of stuck. Enter the ponytails days! After three kids, my hair was a little too wavy to be straight and a little too straight to be curly. I had my hair done for a wedding in 2004 and they used a flat iron on it. EUREKA!! I bought one and began straightening anytime I wanted to look nice.

Last Christmas

I even straightened first and then ponytailed my hair . In fact that was my go to style and what I always did for days when I subbed.

This is not a great picture of me, but it shows the pony.

And now to current events. After Jayme's reaction to my hair moussed and scrunched into semi-curliness and my discovery of how easy it is compared to 30 minutes of flat ironing, I have started to fix my hair that way on days that I sub. Here is the way he likes it to look:

But it drives me nuts if it falls in my face and the grades I sub in are the lower ones so I am bent down a lot to talk to the kids so I prefer to pull some of it back like so:

And there you have it! It's still a work in progress. It makes my hair look darker than "normal" and I don't think I am quite considered a blond anymore which makes me a little sad. I feel compelled to say that I have never desired to color my hair and I don't think I ever will, but I do miss being unmistakeably blond and now I'm not sure what to call myself...

 I did my hair like this (the way he likes with it all down) last week for Jayme's birthday but I must not have used enough mousse because it started to frizz out before we got to lunch so I pulled it into a curly pony which I like too. So, what do you think? Be nice!!