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SPRING FEVER - WITHOUT EYEBROWS
Spring Fever is no joke. By the time the warmth in the sunshine rolls around, I think nearly everyone is ready to get out and about and let the warmth right into their skin and enjoy those big fluffy clouds and all that warmer weather brings along with it. Our Easter holiday, passed this year, with more than mere egg hunts, and baskets and chocolate.
How is it, that as a parent, you find yourself uttering sentences comprised of words that never ought to go together in a civilized society. Terribly strange things like; "Do NOT color your sisters hair with those markers..." or "No you may not have more than one, Flintstones chewables are NOT candy."....some of my favorites; "Why is this under your bed..." - this is in reference to a packed lunch made for a field trip the week prior. You don't even want to KNOW what happens to a turkey sandwich left, in those fabulous zip lock bags when left under a child's bed for a week +. One thing to remember - do NOT....let me repeat, do NOT open the bag. Why on earth would one want to open the bag? Human nature I suppose. Very similar to why we might pose such offers as; "Ewww this smells awful...here, smell this..." what's worse - it's not often the other party refuses.
So those busy spring days are kicking in and keeping everyone busy, and it means that baseball practice has kicked into gear, and it means that there are parties, and events and outdoor activities galore...and how do our Easter pictures look this year? Eyebrow-less that's how.
It's a good thing my daughter doesn't know much, just yet, about surfing the web to our site - at least for a little while longer, I will be able to share stories such as these. I think, as females, we can all recall the early days of youth when suddenly "big girl" stuff seemed enthralling. Manicures, pedicures, wearing make-up...oooh the glamor of it all. Just down the street from our home, there are two adorable twin girls that my daughter has really taken too. There is an age difference, these cutie twins are several years older, but they've really gotten a kick out of teaching her to roller blade, and kick a soccer ball - they're enjoying being the "older" one. But, with older - comes questions from my younger one. I should not have been surprised a couple of weeks ago, when my daughter came to me with questions about...(GASP!) shaving. Oh lord. Her questions brought me right back to my own days of shaving curiosity. I believe nearly every young girl wants to dive into this growing milestone, a bit too early. The end result? Ahh, we all know the end result - it means being forced to do this alllllllll the time lest we sport those itchy "prickilies" where the hair winds up growing in coarse and black and then we're just stuck for good, and that's the way of life.
I did my almighty "mommy" best to explain this to my too-big-for-her-own-good little girl, attempting to diffuse the glamor that was shining in her eyes over what seemed the "big girl" thing to do. The talk all said and done, I silently patted myself on the back over a job well done. I had (or so I thought) effectively made this entire process look a lot like - well a chore. Like taking out the garbage (because goodness knows she HATES to do that!) and let's face it...what if she had to do that everyday...one cannot simply trade chores with their brother, when it involves leg shaving...and at only 8 years old, she's got a ways to go before undertaking this daily grind. Score one for mom!
Fast forward to two weeks later. Off to the school we go, because it's warming up, and spring is the air, and Easter is but days away and we have dresses to wear, picnics to get to, a beach to run on, and family to spend our weekend with. It was my thought that the kids would be thrilled when I arrived, and ready to start the fun. This was not at all the case. In fact, it was very much the opposite. My son, had his lips pursed and his arms crossed over his chest and greeted me with a defensive "MOM, I SWEEEAAAAR I didn't do it...." while my daughter, covered her face, and was simply devastated over what - I didn't yet have clue one. And isn't that a nice "HI mom, glad to see ya...." I sighed, and prepared to diffuse whatever argument the two of them had gotten themselves into and pile them in the car, backpacks and goodie bags in tow. Hannah wasn't budging. She sat with her arms covering her face, while one of her extended day teachers pulled me aside and tried to stifle her giggles.
"What on earth is going on?" I asked, as she pulled me into the office.
"Well, Hannah showed up today and....it seems she has no eyebrows."
"WHHHHHHHAAAT?! What do you mean she has no eyebrows???"
Of all the things I expected to hear - the fact that my child was now minus her two eyebrows, was not ever, in all of my wildest dreams one of those things. What parent ever thinks they are going to hear such of a thing.
"She has no - eyebrows...is what you're telling me.." I just needed to clarify this I think, perhaps, needed to hear it again in order for it to sink into my head.
"Yes," she whispered. "She said, she thinks her brother did it while she was sleeping, maybe some sort of sibling prank? I know, I shouldn't laugh but you'll see this will be funny later - I remember doing something similar when I was a little girl, I even whacked off all of my hair once, thought my mom was going to skin me alive."
Her story immediately brought me back to my own child-hood. I could also, recall having done something similar to my hair.
I wanted to cut my hair so badly, I think I was in all of the sixth grade maybe. I thought that by cutting the top, I would rid myself of those awful cowlicks. For the record and your own future reference - this is NOT the way to go. Once getting crafty with the scissors, and going to work on the very top of my head, I realized my mistake, and thought; "No problem, this is an easy fix, I made a little mistake...I will just cut it down, and no one will know..." after much panic and cutting later, it took many months for what I did to my head to grow out - I had effectively cut the entire middle of my head, so that once it did start to grow back, I had normal hair everyone - and spikes on the top. This is not a good time for a child nearing middle school. Not a good look for anyone really, but in those formidable years, it can be seriously detrimental to ones school and friend status. And yet I survived my wretched spikes - though I still have a school photo as horrendous proof of what I'd done to myself. Needless to say I don't cut my own hair anymore, and nor have I - ever since. It was a horrible way to learn a lesson, for a young girl.
And so there I stood, in the Extended Day Program, leaving the office of the director in an attempt to get to the bottom of why on earth my child now had a hairless face. Now, perhaps in some families sibling pranks in that form, would be typical, and had the roles been reversed I wouldn't put it passed Hannah to think she was being funny with her brother in such a manner. My son however....no. This is just not him. I took Hannah by the hand, while she kept her face covered, and Jada walked, arms crossed out the door with proclamations of his innocence.
"Hannah, tell me what happened..." I asked her, once out of ear shot of the other children. Tears welled up in her big crocodile blue eyes. "I don't know mommy. Maybe it happened while I was sleeping - maybe Jada did it while I was sleeping..."
As we walked, my son fumed. "MOM! I didn't and she told EVERYONE at school that I did it to her. She told her friends, she told my friends, she even told the teachers and THEY think I did it, they asked me why I would shave my sisters eye brows off...but I DIDN'T mom, I swear!" It was now my turn to laugh, the more I heard this stated out loud the funnier, it seemed, that it got. And funnier still when I got a nice long look at her. As a good mother, I didn't let her see the smile breaking at the corners of my mouth, and in the back of my head, despite the humor I was finding in the situation with ever desperate plea from my son, I started thinking about those Easter pictures that were sure to come, and the family that we would see in a mere matter of days, and all of whom would surely want to know - what on earth happened to her eyebrows.
It wasn't until that evening the case of the missing 'brows was finally solved. That morning just before school, she jumped in the shower, after going through my drawers, removed my razor, and simply felt the need to satisfy her curiosity over things all-girl. She took to both of her legs....that wasn't enough. She also shaved her arms, from wrist to shoulder...and yes, her eyebrows too. She left a little of her 'brows though - the two front corners of both. *sigh. And then upon questions from her teachers and peers she was too humiliated at the mistake she knew she had made, to own up to it - and so she did, what siblings will. She blamed her brother. And all throughout that Friday, she tried to hide her face, while my son tried to proclaim his innocence in the face shaving debacle.
And so, another Spring Time and Easter has passed, and another milestone in the growing of our children. That like myself, with the spikes growing from the top of my head, and the eons it seemed to take to grow out, my own Hannah has learned a lesson in growing, changing, honesty....and why not EVER to have ones eyebrows. And we have the pictures to prove it - and perhaps I'll allow her to keep them and one day she can show her own daughter, when she approaches with questions about shaving, and cutting, and all of those little things that seem to escape memory as we grow older. Perhaps, a picture such as this, will keep the memory fresh enough, that when the time comes and she finds herself uttering those sentences we think ought never go together, like "This is why we don't shave our eyebrows" she will have a snap shot to remind her why and act as a piece of history that she can pass down.
Happy Spring to you and yours I do hope it was filled with far too many Cad bury Eggs, and lots and lots of love!
XXOO A.
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