New Normal

I got my hair cut and hilighted the other night. I got a lot cut off because I was trying to cut out layers and grow out bangs. I had to go ahead and do it because my grey hairs are everywhere, my hair was frizzy on the ends and I have pictures on Sunday. My cousins and I are doing surprise pics for my grandma for Christmas. We will be in Papaw's old truck. It will be such a great tribute to him. Any poop I can't be in pics with my hair looking like that.

I had a great convo with my hairstylist. It's funny how stuff I talk to her about stuff I wouldn't tell close friends or family. Maybe it's because she knows me but not enough to judge or something...whatever it is it is an interesting relationship. I think she is a really great person and she has been going through some tough times the past year. She was telling me how she had to move out of her nice house and into an apartment after having been married 25 years. She was talking about how her apartment is nice but she is having a hard time getting use to "her new normal". When she said that I reflected back on some times that I had to get use to my "new normal". The new normal of not being pregnant anymore, the new normal of having a baby to take care, the new normal of being a stay at home mom. I hadnt really thought of it before but that is what is so hard about life's transitions. You get use to a way of life and when something changes it's not necessarily bad but it just takes some getting use to. I was pregnant for 9 months and I had gotten use to that and had identified myself as a pregnant woman. Then when I wasn't pregnant anymore, it was good, but I had to readjust so it caused some temporary saddness and confusion. Does that make since? Probably here in a couple months I will go see my hairstylist and she won't think anything different of living in her apartment because it is her new normal. Hmmm interesting...just hadn't really thought about it.