All is fair .... if it’s for a good cause!

17 inches off! Donated to 'Children With Hair Loss'. That is the only thought that is keeping Aadi from disowning his short haired Mamma. ,

Now I need to come up with a plan to somehow turn - getting a tattoo - into a good cause effort. Then maybe he will relent and let me do it. Hmmm ... or maybe not ...

The idea of getting a tattoo entered my head while we lived in Texas. EVERYONE had one !!!!!

I want one so bad ... a teeny tiny one, in a hidden spot will be okay too. Everyone in the family agreed - in fact Suvo wants me to get a big one - and why not THE Dragon tatto! Diya wants to design one for me - combining Suvo's suggestion of a Dragon to my desire for a small one ... she has an idea for a Dragonfly!!! 

But Aadi flatly refused and has not budged from his positon despite many many arguments and discussions in the last 2 yrs. He first took the tact of - "you are beautiful as you are, you don't need a tattoo" Awww... but I WANT a tattoo. When I kept pushing he finally told me "if I let you get a tattoo, then you would want a leather jacket and then a motorcycle and then you drive away ...." WHAT ??!!! (Maybe I read him one too many books about 'if you give a mouse a cookie ...'). And there is NOTHING I can say or do to convince him otherwise. 

And then came the resistance to letting me cut my hair short ... which he finally gave in to when I suggested the donation. But he has been struggling with it ... he has reminded himself several times since yesterday that this is for a good cause ... or as he calls it 'common good' ... 

I have realized that he basically does not want me to change in any way. We have had so many big changes in our life recently that he wants some things to be 'Constants' that he can count on. The way l look and act being one. It warms my heart, but also worries me ... I AM going to get old (some day in the far far far future) !!!!

And here is the secret- I don't want the kids to change either .... and they are growing up TOO fast. Somebody stop the clock ... and let me take this moment in and preserve it for eternity.